Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

14 Arches, Staff Psychology and Counselling, is a psychology led service, which delivers specialist psychological support to NHFT colleagues. The service is based in Northampton but provides support across NHFT sites.

You would be joining the team at an exciting time of service expansion, in order to meet the needs of a growing NHFT workforce. This role is for 0.8 WTE band 7/8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who will provide a specialist psychology service to staff who refer into the service: including working directly with individuals, groups and teams, offering consultancy, training and supporting the development of the service.

You would be joining an innovative and enthusiastic team made up of principal psychologists, senior psychologists and experienced counsellors, supported by a clinical administrator. Psychologists within the service offer one-to-one consultations to colleagues, in which we explore an area of concern and help make sense of what is going on; we also offer support to teams and team leaders, consulting when there are difficulties and providing input to teams through structured activities and reflective practice.

We are looking for innovative and dedicated clinicians with a strong commitment to improving psychological wellbeing for NHS staff and an interest in using their skills in a range of individual and group interventions with staff.

Main duties of the job

You would be expected to work alongside the established psychologists and counsellors within the service, delivering support to colleagues who refer in and contributing to supervision, governance and service evaluation/development. Strengths will be in psychological formulation which draws on a range of models, and the ability to communicate and share psychological thinking with colleagues. Also important will be the ability in the postholder to work at a systemic level, develop practice and take forward a project within the service.

Key duties of the role include:

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer into the service around a concern which is impacting them at work
• Offering consultancy to managers around team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Helping to deliver our pathway for staff experiencing distressing and potentially traumatic incidents at work, including preventative work, post-event support to teams and trauma therapy to individuals
• Utilising research skills for audit, service evaluation/development and research within the service.
• Providing supervision to other psychological professionals within the service e.g. trainee psychologists, counsellors
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies & procedures

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the full job description/specification located under the Supporting Documents heading.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.