Clinical or Counselling Psychologist/Senior Psychological Therapist
1 wte 8a clinical/counselling psychologist/senior psychological therapist in North Adult Community Mental Health Teams (Central Norfolk Locality)
We are looking to recruit a clinical/counselling psychologist/senior psychological therapist (please see job descriptions), across our North East and North West Adult Community Mental Health Teams in the Central Norfolk Locality in the development of our complex emotional needs, personality disorder and trauma pathway.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job are to provide consultation, formulation, assessment and psychological intervention to service users and carers within a CMHT context. You will provide DBT and other evidence-based individual and group interventions and help the broader team deliver psychologically informed interventions and provide training to support this.
About us
We have two North CMHTs, based at the Peddars Centre at Hellesdon Hospital. There is a positive culture around formulation led and trauma-informed care and we provide a broad range of NICE-endorsed therapeutic approaches. We are pro-active in developing staff around our identified service needs, supported by further training and project work. Psychology Services within the Trust have strong links with partners including UEA, and NSFT's Recovery College, in which they play an active role.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide psychological consultation, formulation, assessment and intervention for our service users and carers. They will be expected to attend relevant weekly team meetings and psychology meetings. Further training opportunities will be encouraged to develop a therapeutic model or specialism to augment provision of evidence-based therapies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
* Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
* Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
* Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist (Band 7) and supervise trainee clinical psychologistable to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
* Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment
* Experience of supervision and teaching
Skills
* Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
Knowledge
* Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
Other
* Ability to travel independently
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.
£55,690 to £62,682 a yearGross per annum, pro rata
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