Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking two highly specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join their team. You will provide expert psychological assessments and interventions for individuals with complex mental health issues, working closely with community organizations. Candidates should hold a Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and have experience in multidisciplinary teams. The role offers a competitive salary between £61,631 and £68,623 per annum, inclusive of HCAs, and aims to improve mental health outcomes in diverse communities.

Qualifications

• Must have experience as a specialist psychologist in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in planning and clinical responsibility for psychological care.
• Must work well in a multi-cultural setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and treatments for service users.
• Be responsible for treatment formulation and implementation.
• Develop community partnerships for capacity building in psychology.

Skills

Highly developed skills in psychological assessment

Effective communication of technical information

Skills in providing advice to professional groups

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

HCPC Registration

Clinical supervision training

Job description

Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

We are excited to recruit two full time 8a posts, each to be based in CIMHS North and CIMHS South:

To support the development and leadership of community psychology approaches in Newham through working with psychology and non-psychology colleagues across a range of services

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those with complex mental health problem, who are vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.

To develop partnership working with local community organisations with the aim of community capacity building and co-production of psychological input. This includes supporting ongoing transformation work in line with a more flexible outreach psychological offer.

To develop, through co-production, psychological interventions that address the needs of those served including resilience and recovery, shared support, social connections and community engagement.

To offer and supervise adapted therapies with diverse communities such as Behavioural Activation for Muslim communities (BA-M), Islamic psychology and CBT-music for young black men.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users and carers. This is to be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and assessments with service users and others involved in their care.

Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of service users' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, and employing methods based upon evidence of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached Job description and person specification

We are offering two roles one in CIMHS North and one in CIMHS South in Newham

We welcome informal visits to the team and/or phone calls/emails to discuss the role

Person Specification

Education/Qualification/Training

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
• HCPC Registration
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral clinical /counselling psychology trainees
• Further training within systemic, narrative therapy or community psychology approaches
• Further training in a therapeutic modality relevant to complex mental health e.g. trauma interventions

Experience

• Experience of working as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist in a multidisciplinary team for adults with complex mental health needs
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of planning and exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training, consultation and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Experience of work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
• Experience of working in partnership with third sector agencies
• Experience of facilitating groups
• Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups
• Experience of developing and delivering specialist training programmes

Knowledge and Skills

• Highly developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment
• Highly developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation
• Highly developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance
• Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
• Experience of co-production with people with lived experience of mental distress

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.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearper annum Inc HCAs