Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist –Part time (2.5 days) 6 month Fixed term post  with possibility of extension.

Are you interested in playing a key role in the development of addiction services as part of the national over-hall of drug and alcohol services?

We are keen to recruit a dynamic, compassionate and experienced clinical or counselling psychologist to join RISE in Ealing.  RISE is an established partnership substance misuse service between CGL (Change Grow Live), CNWL and BOB.   RISE  specialises in supporting recovery for drug and alcohol difficulties and caters to a wide range of service users including those with co-occurring mental health, physical heath difficulties, criminal justice involvement and service users who are sleeping rough, across clinical bases in West Ealing and Southall.

We welcome applications from psychologists outside of the addictions field who are looking to develop a new specialism and welcome applications from Band 7 psychologists ready for career progression.

Main duties of the job

This post will play a key role in the development of the local addiction services as well as our mental health pathways and will have involvement in our high quality stepped care provision across the addictions directorate. We are seeking someone who will work well with a range of professions, both within the established MDT and also with the wider staffing group, respecting and integrating a range of opinions and approaches to provide the best outcome for our service users and promote trauma informed care across the service. At RISE you will be fully supported by a Consultant Psychologist and work alongside assistant psychologists and MDT colleagues.   We have a larger team of psychology and therapy staff providing a wide range of therapies (CBT, MBT, EMDR, Schema &  Psychodynamic therapy) across CNWL  Addictions Directorate. We are seeking someone who will offer clinical supervision and reflective practice and consultation as well as providing direct clinical psychological interventions to service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a post which requires leadership skills and a forward-thinking attitude to help drive the service forward.  An enthusiasm to explore new and innovative ways of providing evidence-based treatments is most welcome.

Please see job description and person specialisation.