Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Teddington; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Benefits package

Job summary

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to deliver evidence-based therapies for severe and enduring conditions, including psychosis, bipolar and personality disorders. You will supervise and train clinicians across the MDT and engage in risk management, assessment and care planning, with flexible and agile working arrangements.

Doctoral-level training and HCPC registration are required, with responsibilities spanning

Job description

This Clinical or Counselling Psychologist post sits in the Richmond Psychology & Psychotherapies service at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The work centres on evidence-based therapies for people with severe and enduring conditions such as psychosis, bipolar and personality disorders, alongside specialist assessment and risk management. It also involves supervising and training clinicians across the wider team, with flexible and agile working on offer. Doctoral-level training and HCPC registration are required.

What the job involves

• Deliver evidence-based psychological therapies for severe and enduring conditions, including psychosis, bipolar, personality disorders, and complex mood, anxiety and PTSD presentations
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings and offer supervision, consultation and training to clinicians in the wider MDT
• Carry out specialist psychological assessments by integrating complex data from tests, measures, observation and interviews
• Formulate, evaluate and implement psychological treatment and management plans across all care settings
• Deliver psychological interventions to individuals, carers, families and groups
• Take autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
• Provide specialist psychological advice to other professionals on formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management, and advise other professions on psychological aspects of risk
• Act as care coordinator where appropriate, leading planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA
• Contribute to a psychologically based framework of care across all settings and agencies serving clients with severe and enduring mental health problems
• Use research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the service area

What’s required

Qualifications

• Doctoral training in clinical or counselling psychology accredited by the BPS, or equivalent overseas training recognised by HCPC
• Doctoral training covering psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology (clinical), two or more distinct therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Registration & licences

• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council under the appropriate domain-specific title

Experience

• Specialist psychological assessment and treatment across outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
• Working with a wide range of clients across the life course and the full range of clinical severity, remaining professional with emotive problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
• At least 50 hours of clinical supervision as a specialist clinical or counselling psychologist or specialist CBT therapist, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology and Psychotherapies

Skills & knowledge

• Skills in complex psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration
• Communicating complex, technical or clinically sensitive information orally and in writing to clients, families, carers and professionals inside and outside the NHS
• Providing consultation to professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariate data analysis
• Teaching and training others using complex multimedia materials for public, professional and academic audiences

Checks & eligibility

• Evidence of right to work in the UK

Other

• Using clinical governance mechanisms to support and maintain practice in the face of emotive material and challenging behaviour

Nice to have

• Pre-qualification training or qualifications in research methodology, staff training or other applied psychology
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of applying clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Knowledge of specialised psychological therapies for difficult-to-treat groups, such as dual diagnosis, psychosis with personality disorder, substance misuse, learning disability and neurological dysfunction
• High-level knowledge of at least two specialised psychological therapies, including CBT
• Personal experience of mental health problems

What’s offered

• Flexible and agile working, with arrangements discussed at interview
• Career development
• Wider range of benefits