Psychological Therapist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

• Other

  Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviouR

• Other

  Good understanding of the current context of service provision within the NHS.

• Other

  Willingness to work flexibly to meet demands of contracts, commissioners and other stake-holders to provide high-quality and effective care

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience working with and delivering psychological therapy to those with a diagnosis of personality disorder and/or a history of self-harm and substance misuse and experience of working with complex trauma.

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience of delivering brief, primary care, CBT interventions or equivalent

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.

• EXPERIENCE

  Experience of teaching and training.

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  Skills in providing training, advice and psychological information and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses).

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs, including sexual and violent offending and self-harming and suicidal behaviours.

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

  High level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

• TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

  Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology or its equivalent, accredited by the BPS. Training in models of developmental lifespan psychology, psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies. HCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.

• TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

  OR A recognised post graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (or equivalent). Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) (via having a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions e.g. nursing, psychology, medicine, social work, occupational therapy or evidence of having achieved the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route)

• TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

  OR A recorded/registered qualification in counselling or psychotherapy and further post accreditation qualification in a nice recommended or evidence-based therapy (e.g. CBT; EMDR) Accreditation with a Professional Standards Authority recognised Accreditation Body.