Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established team within community mental health. Psychology is highly valued by the team and is seen as a core component of service provision.

The post holder/s will mainly focus on the provision of specialist assessment and intervention within secondary care.

To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Psychological Service to clients with moderate to severe mental health problems in clusters 5 – 17 + 0.

To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Secondary Care.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

There are opportunity to engage in service development initiatives, provide teaching/training and consultation across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy including CBT, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (up to a maximum of £2,122 per annum)
• 27-33 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.