Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
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Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Home Treatment Teams across Westminster & Kensington and Chelsea. The teams work alongside inpatient and community mental health services to offer an increased level of support to those experiencing a mental health crisis outside an inpatient setting. The team supports service users living in their own homes and step-down accommodation across the boroughs.
The post-holder will work collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and colleagues from other services to manage risk and to provide a psychological perspective to care, along with providing assessment, formulation and brief interventions to service users and their families. The post-holder will also support and work with the team to develop a range of psychologically informed interventions. The post holder will be integral to decisions and delivery about reflective practice, team formulation/consultation and post-incident support. The service is accredited by the Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (QNCRHTT) with the Royal College of Psychiatry; the post holder would be actively involved in ensuring psychological standards are met and maintained.
The post holder will be the supervisor for the Assistant Psychologists and other psychological professionals in the team, and will provide a placement for a trainee clinical psychologist from the North London training courses.
Main duties of the job
* Provide a full and comprehensive psychology service including direct care to service users and their families, offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence-based interventions when indicated.
* Offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the MDT have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service user’s needs, via psychological consultation, contributions in clinical meetings and team formulation.
* Develop the MDT’s knowledge and skills to use a psychological approach to a service user’s care through teaching, training and supervision where needed.
* Work as an integrated clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, with responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high-quality specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychology service.
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development.
* Travel to service users’ homes as required; clinical assessments and interventions may be carried out in a range of settings including inpatient wards, other community bases and patients’ homes.
* Post-holder will contribute to reflective spaces for the MDT and maintain accreditation standards for QNCRHTT.
* Provide supervision to assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists as part of the role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent, with accreditation by the BPS and/or equivalent practitioner status; includes models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council and/or equivalent body.
* Training in clinical supervision for doctoral trainees.
Desirable criteria
* Training in supervision of psychological therapies.
* Post-doctoral training in psychological therapies relevant to severe and enduring mental health difficulties (e.g., DBT, CBT-P, Systemic Practice).
Experience
Essential criteria
* Post- or pre-qualification experience of working in mental health settings delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions in acute or crisis settings.
* Post-qualification experience.
* Experience of working with a wide range of client groups across the life span with various psychological problems.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision to assistant/trainee or qualified psychologists, and/or other professionals.
Desirable criteria
* Post-qualification experience or training in working with adults affected by psychological trauma.
* Experience of facilitating psychological therapy groups.
* Experience of service development/change leadership.
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills in complex psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration.
* Strong communication skills to convey complex information to service users, families, carers and colleagues.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology and data analysis as applied to clinical psychology.
* Ability to provide and receive highly sensitive information with interpersonal skill, including in challenging settings.
Desirable criteria
* Skills in complex psychometric and neuropsychological testing.
* Knowledge of QN-CRHTT standards and accreditation processes.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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