Overview
One Recovery Bucks is seeking a dedicated Principal Psychologist (0.4 WTE) to join our team. We are a leading NHS community drug and alcohol treatment service provider, part of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We are committed to trauma-informed care and delivering high-quality care to people affected by substance use.
Responsibilities
* Provide a psychology service to young people and adults accessing community drug and alcohol services, including complex assessments, psychological formulations of distress, recommendations for treatment options, and evaluation of interventions.
* As a senior clinician with specialist post-qualification training, develop a specific area of psychological knowledge within the Inclusion psychology team; may include leading or contributing to training, supervision and governance of the therapeutic model or approach.
* Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and clinical team members delivering psychologically informed care and treatment.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and oversee the governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
* Utilise research and audit skills to guide service development.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) as 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 psychologist (clinical/counselling/forensic).
Experience
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist at a highly specialist level.
* Experience with a wide variety of client groups across the life course and range of clinical severity, maintaining professionalism in emotive and distressing situations.
* Experience exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within multidisciplinary care plans.
Desirable criteria
* Prior experience of working in drug & alcohol services.
Knowledge and skills
* Skills in complex psychological assessment, intervention and management, with the ability to communicate highly technical information to clients, families, carers and professionals.
* Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced in clinical psychology.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of MPFT. We provide caring and effective services across England, including multiple regions, and we support individuals, families and communities affected by addiction, crime, mental health issues, or sexual health needs. We invest in training and the wellbeing of our staff and service users, and we are dedicated to evidence-based, inclusive care.
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