Job Overview
Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering people who use drug and alcohol treatment services to achieve a better quality of life? Would you like to work for Inclusion, a leading and award‑winning NHS provider of addiction treatment services in England and part of a forward‑thinking and innovative NHS trust?
Inclusion has an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our team within One Recovery Bucks, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for people impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol or drugs. Inclusion is fully committed to developing and embedding trauma‑informed care.
Responsibilities
* Provide a psychology service to young people and adults accessing community drug & alcohol services, incorporating complex assessments, psychological formulations, recommendations for treatment options and evaluation of interventions.
* As a senior clinician with specialist post‑qualification training, take responsibility for the development of a specific area of psychological knowledge within the Inclusion psychology team, including leading or contributing to training, supervision and governance aspects of the therapeutic model or approach.
* Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically informed care and treatment.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
* Utilise research and audit skills to guide service development.
Qualifications
* Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice or therapy.
* HCPC registration as a practitioner (clinical / counselling / forensic) psychologist.
Experience
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist at a highly specialist level.
* Experience working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties.
* Experience exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable Criteria
* Prior experience of working in drug & alcohol services.
Knowledge and Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration; well‑developed communication skills, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
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