Specialist Psychological Therapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in North Tyneside Specialist Community Psychology  Service for a Specialist Psychological Therapist, to provide excellent, high quality and time limited psychological interventions in accordance with NICE guidelines to patients presenting with a range of mental health problems.

The successful candidate will be joining a well-established, Psychology team that continues to offer high quality, evidence based psychological interventions for the North Tyneside population.

We have a part time vacancy and are accepting applications via this job description and from Clinical/Counselling Psychologists (alternative advert).

The service delivers high quality clinical supervision and CPD programmes in house, and strongly supports staff members' continued learning and development; and established links with Newcastle Uni, DCLIN Psych Course.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates should be keen to work therapeutically with a wide range of psychological difficulties, however a significant proportion of the work is with people presenting with complex psychological difficulties, predominantly linked to developmental trauma. The Psychology team consists of therapists trained in a range of therapeutic models.

The role will require you to work in conjunction with colleagues to deliver services within a flexible model of care. As the service is designed to promote greater access you will be required to work flexible hours to enable this improved service delivery. This is a great opportunity to be a part of an experienced and committed service in a forward-thinking organisation and make a tangible difference to those struggling with a range of mental health problems.

Successful candidates will be registered with their relevant professional body.  The successful candidates would need to have significant experience working therapeutically with complex trauma and ideally have experience working in primary care, with skills and expertise in working with complexity and managing risk.  An EMDR qualification would also be desirable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work within North Tyneside Specialist Community Psychology Service.

You will be responsible for providing trauma informed therapy and promoting the psychological health and wellbeing of clients in our psychology team.

The post holder will provide therapy interventions to patients with a range of complex mental health disorders and provide clinical supervision to other Clinical/Counselling Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.

You will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.