Clinical, or Counselling Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist

NHS; Bexleyheath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a highly skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist to join the Bexley Mental Health Hub. The post holder will lead the psychological therapies services, providing clinical supervision, and developing treatment pathways. Ideal candidates will have a doctoral qualification and substantial community mental health experience, contributing to a high-quality service delivery for patients.

Qualifications

• Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or BABCP accredited CBT Therapist.
• Substantial post qualification experience in community mental health settings.
• Evidence of working with clients with complex mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and manage psychological therapies pathway.
• Supervise and support psychological assessments and therapies.
• Ensure provision of high-quality psychological services across Bexley.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical supervision

Communication with stakeholders

Service user involvement

Education

Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

BABCP accredited CBT Therapist

Job description

Clinical, or Counselling Psychologist or Senior CBT Therapist

We are seeking to recruit a highly skilled, innovative and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, or Senior CBT Therapist, to provide operational, clinical and professional leadership in the Bexley Mental Health Hub.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership in the mental health hub and manage and develop the psychological therapies pathway, linking this to talking therapies services and secondary care mental health teams.

Main duties of the job

• Working with and reporting to the Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary care , the postholder will provide skilled and experienced leadership for the psychological therapies and staff in the wider hub
• The postholder will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological therapies service across the Bexley mental health pathway.
• To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and MDT staff who provide psychologically-based care and treatment.
• To oversee the psycho education group programme in the mental health hub
• To provide consultation to GPs and other referrers to the mental health hub and to advise about psychological treatments and pathways.
• To provide consultation and reflective practice and incident debriefs to the service and to facilitate team working, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care and appropriate treatment pathways to optimise service user journey and experience across service transitions.
• The post will also involve close organisational liaison with the wider Oxleas mental health system and third sector partners.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the teams/service. To contribute to the overall management of the service.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Person Specification

• Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or BABCP accredited CBT Therapist
• Substantial post qualification experience of working in community mental health settings
• Evidence of experience of service user involvement
• Evidence of working with clients with complex and co morbid mental health problems
• Experience of service evaluation and audit

Leadership and supervision

• Experience of supervision of clinical staff
• Experience of project leadership

Working with Referrers and Stakeholders

• Evidence of working with GP or other referrers and stakeholders

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.

Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care