Practitioner Psychologist/Psychological Therapist/Psychotherapist

Job overview

We are pleased to be recruiting to this 0.6 wte 8b post to work within our multi-modality therapy team in secondary care for adults with moderate-severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders. The post holder will be an expert clinician for service users with PTSD and complex PTSD offering trauma-focussed CBT and EMDR, as well as supervising and line managing junior psychologists, offering consultation and link-working with colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will demonstrate experience and expertise in working with PTSD and cPTSD with adults in secondary care with moderate-severe presentations, using trauma-focussed CBT and EMDR. The role requires experience and skills in supervising and line managing more junior psychologists. The post holder will have experience in leading and implementing service audits and development projects, teaching and consultation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a psychological therapy service to adults in secondary care with moderate to severe mood, anxiety and personality disorders and personally provide highly specialist clinical input, particularly for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychological practitioners.
• To promote service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
• To support the coordination of staff support within their area, working closely with Corporate Psychology and Psychotherapy to support colleagues and ensure all staff in SLaM have access to evidence-based support. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.