Job Summary:
Acute Inpatient & Home Treatment Team Psychology Services. This is an 8a post, but we welcome applicants at Band 7 and a job plan would be tailored to reflect Band 7 competencies.
The Acute and Rehab psychology service is an exciting and dynamic team of psychological professionals working in crisis settings - home treatment crisis teams, psychiatric inpatient wards and a range of other settings.
This opportunity is for a full time clinical/counselling psychologist posts for Home Treatment Team and Inpatient Services.
The successful applicant would join our well respected and exciting Acute Psychology Service. We are passionate about tackling social inequalities and making therapy accessible to everyone. Our work focuses on supporting people from marginalised communities.
The team are at the forefront of national developments in inpatient and acute working. We are actively involved in research and keen to recruit people who share that vision of contributing to best practice, national guidelines and an evidence base.
Main duties of the job:
* Creative and thoughtful input including offering opportunity to develop skills in assessing, formulating and treating high risk behaviours using evidence based interventions.
* Working closely with our multi-disciplinary colleagues through consultation, training, reflective practice and opportunities are available to develop these skills in integrated working.
Applicants Should Have:
* Doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) OR accredited psychotherapy qualification in CBT/DBT/systemic or psychodynamic therapy and registration with an appropriate professional body.
* Experience of working in an evidence-based way with clients presenting with severe mental health difficulties, people in crisis and their families and carers.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary service context.
We are committed to supporting staff development through our in-house CPD package, and where funding allows, we aim to open up further training opportunities in models like Systemic Family Therapy, EMDR, FLP, and CBT for psychosis.
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