Job summary
We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist for the Community Mental Health Service and Acute Team on the Isle of Wight.
You will provide a high-quality specialist Psychology service to patients and carers who are referred to Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and Acute Team, and to assist colleagues across the Services in the management of people with complex mental health needs where appropriate.
The successful candidate will be expected to carry out psychometric assessment, psychological assessments and provide specialist advice as appropriate.
You will attend referral meetings and help identify appropriate treatment options and pathways for referrals and will offer advice and consultation on service user's psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, as well as to other non-professional carers and workers of other agencies where appropriate. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team and Trust's policies and procedures.
The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and research within the area served by the teams / service, agree, in conjunction with Psychological Services, the appropriate utilisation of psychological resources to the teams, and contribute to the provision of team services and fulfilment of team priorities and objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist the Consultant Psychologist and Principal Clinical Psychologist by providing supervision to Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists and supporting the development of treatment pathways.
To assess and treat a specialist caseload of patients, including carrying out direct specialist one-to-one and group consultations/therapy, co-ordinating specialist clinics, attending professional meetings and reviews as relevant, and updating/maintaining patient and associated records.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence-based practice across a full range of care settings.
To clinically supervise less experienced psychologists and psychological therapists (e.g. Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists), counsellors or other professionals.
To co-ordinate the provision of a systematic specialist psychology service of a high quality to the patients of the multidisciplinary team, across all sectors of care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.
Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience of holding high levels of clinical risk and clinically supervising others working with people with highly risky, complex and challenging mental health problems across a range of settings.
* Extensive experience of working with a wide range of severe and enduring mental health difficulties including personality disorder, psychosis, trauma, eating disorders, anxiety and mood disorders.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community primary care, in-patients and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for patient's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Excellent IT and keyboard skills.
Desirable
* Training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, related to serious mental illness.
* Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Record of having published in peer-reviewed or academic journals and/or books.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr