Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Job overview

Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit

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This is an exciting opportunity for a senior clinical/counselling psychologist/psychotherapist to join the Inpatient Psychological Therapies Service at the H&F Mental Health Unit.

Based on our male PICU, the postholder will work collaboratively with the ward’s multidisciplinary team providing a comprehensive psychological service. Reflective practice, team formulation, consultation and post-incident support are an integral part of the role.

As a senior clinician, you will provide clinical supervision and line management to both qualified and unqualified psychological therapists and hold leadership responsibility for unit-wide projects aimed at developing psychological skills in the acute mental health workforce and a trauma-informed approach to care.

We welcome applications from experienced psychologists/psychotherapists with previous experience working in acute mental health services.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will:

• Provide a comprehensive psychological service, offering assessment, formulation and brief evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Develop the multidisciplinary team’s psychological understanding through teaching, team formulation and consultation.
• Provide post-incident support to the ward teams to support staff wellbeing and psychological safety.
• Lead unit-wide projects aimed at developing psychological skills in the acute mental health workforce and a trauma-informed approach to care. This centres on the implementation of RAID, an approach to managing behaviours that challenge, and the introduction of stabilisation skills training and supervision.
• Clinically supervise and line manage staff within the psychology team and/or MDT colleagues where appropriate.
• Be responsible for the clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of the inpatient psychological therapies service.
• Opportunity for service development and research.

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.