The Intensive Life Skills service is seeking an experienced Consultant Clinical / Counselling psychologist and clinical leader to join the team at a time of exciting change and service development. The Intensive Life Skills service is a multi-disciplinary community mental health team providing assessment and intervention for adults who experience the complex emotional and personality difficulties, associated with adverse experiences and trauma. We are a specialist community team providing assessment, formulation and intervention using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase emotional, social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy. You will have an interest in working with people with complex emotional and personality difficulties, to contribute and enhance the professional psychological care of our service users and Clinical / professional and strategic psychological leadership for Intensive Life Skills (CEN Intensive Treatment Pathway, Shropshire Telford and Wrekin). There is an emphasis on team based multi-disciplinary care and decision making. We value compassionate reflective approaches, supporting collaborative ways of working alongside service users.
- Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities which include significant challenging behaviours and risk of physical aggression.
- In agreement with Head of Mental Health and Professional lead for Mental Health Psychological Services and in collaboration with other locality Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, to provide clinical leadership and direction in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin for those working with people with Complex Emotional Needs and/or to act as lead within ILS.
- To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
- To provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training in working with CEN to colleagues within ILS and to other healthcare professionals across the organisation.
- To be a Senior Psychologist within STW Care Group and to provide knowledge around CEN pathway.
- To undertake co-ordination and management of research and development projects within ILS.
- To provide clinical leadership in the continual development and provision of excellence to CEN service users across the locality.
- To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
- To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
