Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

CPD opportunities

Teaching/training support

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a 0.8 WTE band 7/8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the Staff Psychology and Counselling service in Northampton. The role provides specialist psychology support to NHFT colleagues, working with individuals, groups and teams, and contributing to supervision, governance and service development.

You will deliver consultations, consultancy to managers, design interventions, and develop psychologically informed groups, with

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
• Experience providing psychological consultations to staff
• Experience delivering consultancy to managers
• Ability to design and deliver interventions and groups
• Experience supervising trainee psychologists or counsellors
• Interest in systemic practice and service development

Responsibilities

• Providing psychological consultations to staff who refer into the service
• Offering consultancy to managers on team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Support pathway for staff experiencing distress or traumatic incidents, including prevention and post-event support
• Utilising research skills for audit, service evaluation and development
• Providing supervision to other psychology staff
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and service policies

Job description

14 Arches, Staff Psychology and Counselling, is a psychology led service, which delivers specialist psychological support to NHFT colleagues. The service is based in Northampton but provides support across NHFT sites. You would be joining the team at an exciting time of service expansion, in order to meet the needs of a growing NHFT workforce. This role is for 0.8 WTE band 7/8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who will provide a specialist psychology service to staff who refer into the service: including working directly with individuals, groups and teams, offering consultancy, training and supporting the development of the service. You would be joining an innovative and enthusiastic team made up of principal psychologists, senior psychologists and experienced counsellors, supported by a clinical administrator. Psychologists within the service offer one-to-one consultations to colleagues, in which we explore an area of concern and help make sense of what is going on; we also offer support to teams and team leaders, consulting when there are difficulties and providing input to teams through structured activities and reflective practice. We are looking for innovative and dedicated clinicians with a strong commitment to improving psychological wellbeing for NHS staff and an interest in using their skills in a range of individual and group interventions with staff., You would be expected to work alongside the established psychologists and counsellors within the service, delivering support to colleagues who refer in and contributing to supervision, governance and service evaluation/development.Strengths will be in psychological formulation which draws on a range of models, and the ability to communicate and share psychological thinking with colleagues. Also important will be the ability in the postholder to work at a systemic level, develop practice and take forward a project within the service. Key duties of the role include:

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer into the service around a concern which is impacting them at work
• Offering consultancy to managers around team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Helping to deliver our pathway for staff experiencing distressing and potentially traumatic incidents at work, including preventative work, post-event support to teams and trauma therapy to individuals
• Utilising research skills for audit, service evaluation/development and research within the service.
• Providing supervision to other psychological professionals within the service e.g. trainee psychologists, counsellors
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies & procedures

About us Joining this service can offer:

• Regular supervision from one of the principal psychologists in the service
• Monthly reflective practice within the team
• Opportunity to work within a well established and integrated Psychological Professions Network, which provides access to regular CPD meetings, organisational support and opportunities to connect with psychological professionals working across the Trust.
• Support to develop supervision and teaching skills, with clinical psychology trainees through both the University of Leicester and University of Oxford Clinical Psychology Doctoral training programmes and/or counselling psychology trainees.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.