Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Monthly reflective practice

CPD opportunities

Support to develop supervision/teaches

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a psychologist (0.8 WTE) to provide one-to-one consultations for staff, offer consultancy to managers, and design group interventions within the Staff Psychology and Counselling Service.

You will supervise trainees and staff, contribute to governance and service development, and support staff through traumatic incidents, with HCPC registration and a doctorate essential.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent.
• HCPC Practitioner Psychologist registration or eligible.
• Experience of working within adult mental health.
• Experience of, or understanding of, working in the NHS.
• Experience of providing interventions across a range of complex presentations.

Responsibilities

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer in about concerns affecting them at work.
• Offering consultancy to managers on team issues.
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams.
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups.
• Helping to deliver the pathway for staff affected by distressing or potentially traumatic incidents.
• Using research skills for audit, service evaluation and development, and research within the service.
• Providing supervision to psychological professionals in the service, such as trainee psychologists and counsellors.
• Contributing to supervision, governance and service evaluation and development.
• Taking forward a project within the service.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies and procedures.

Education

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent

Job description

This 0.8 WTE post sits within 14 Arches, the Staff Psychology and Counselling service, which gives specialist psychological support to Northamptonshire Healthcare colleagues across the trust's sites. The core is one-to-one consultations for staff who refer in, consultancy for managers and teams, and designing and running staff groups and interventions. The role also covers the trust's pathway for staff affected by traumatic incidents and supervising trainees and counsellors. A doctorate and HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist are required.

What the job involves

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer in about concerns affecting them at work
• Offering consultancy to managers on team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Helping to deliver the pathway for staff affected by distressing or potentially traumatic incidents, including preventative work, post-event team support and trauma therapy for individuals
• Using research skills for audit, service evaluation and development, and research within the service
• Providing supervision to psychological professionals in the service, such as trainee psychologists and counsellors
• Contributing to supervision, governance and service evaluation and development
• Taking forward a project within the service
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or equivalent

Registration & licences

• Eligible for or registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Experience

• Experience of working within adult mental health
• Experience of, or understanding of, working in the NHS
• Experience of providing interventions across a range of complex presentations

Other

• A genuine, demonstrated interest in staff psychological wellbeing
• A positive approach to working with difference and diversity and promoting inclusion

Nice to have

• Post-qualification training in relevant clinical approaches
• Training in providing supervision
• Training in a specific trauma-focused therapy, such as EMDR or trauma-focused CBT
• Experience providing supervision
• Experience providing consultation or reflective practice
• Experience providing psychological support to staff
• Experience working with staff teams
• Experience in research, audit and/or service evaluation

What’s offered

• Regular supervision from one of the principal psychologists
• Monthly reflective practice within the team
• Access to a Psychological Professions Network with regular CPD meetings and organisational support
• Support to develop supervision and teaching skills, including with clinical psychology or counselling psychology trainees