Highly Specialist Clinical Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated and creative individuals, who are looking to develop specialist skills in an innovative and expanding service:

Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist in the Tri-Borough           Perinatal Service

This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of specialist care within in West London NHS Trust. Perinatal Mental Health services have received significant new funding from NHS England, with the largest expansion of posts being within psychological therapies. This is in recognition of the choices and preference for psychological interventions of women accessing perinatal mental health services.  It is due to this large expansion that we are looking to fill the current posts.

The role will be based in Hounslow with the need to flexibly/attend meetings at the other team locations across the Trust.

This would be an ideal opportunity for an excellent clinician who has experience at Band 7 or 8a previously to work in a new area and to gain exposure/enhance their knowledge and skills with the support of a highly specialised team which will help the post holder to develop their own specialist skills in Perinatal Mental Health.

We will support successful candidates to develop a bespoke training programme to facilitate their development within the post.

Main duties of the job

Provide assessments of patients referred to the Perinatal Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

To provide a comprehensive psychological therapy service to patients within the perinatal service who may have a wide range of psychological needs. This will include the provision of evidence-based treatments for trauma (Trauma focussed CBT or EMDR).

To provide evidence based interventions to women, couples and families, where appropriate, considering the specific needs of families who are pregnant or have a young baby.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both the evidence base, theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the individual, family or group.

To be responsible for implementing a range of time-limited psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of a range of theoretical approaches.

Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to women’s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To provide supervision to more junior psychology colleagues including assistant and trainee psychologists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.