Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in London seeks a Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join a multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing assessment and therapy to service users, contributing to training, and collaborating with care providers. Candidates need a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent and at least two years' NHS experience. This full-time position offers a salary ranging from £46,148 to £52,809 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must be eligible for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist).
• Minimum of two-years' experience in the NHS.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary mental health setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and flexible therapy to service users.
• Contribute to staff training and provide psychological advice.
• Collaborate with various care providers and agencies.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Therapeutic intervention

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly or recently qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, who is keen to take on the challenges of working in a diverse borough with complex presentations.Candidates should have an interest in working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and high comorbidity, with clients from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The post holder will be expected to work alongside other Psychologists, including a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who will also provide supervision.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team operating out of our community office based in Stepney & Wapping with an equal focus on providing a continuity role between the neighbourhood and the locality inpatient wards at Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health at Mile End Hospital. The post holder will work alongside the team's senior Psychologists providing assessment and empirically informed, but necessarily flexible, therapy to service users. In collaboration with more senior staff, the successful candidate will contribute to staff training and provide psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation) to other staff, support family members and liaise with primary and secondary care providers and various other statutory and non-statutory agencies involved in service users' care.

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

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person Specification

Education

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalence (statement of equivalence (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)) and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) Or Doctorate (or equivalent) in Counselling Psychology and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist)

Experience

• At least two-years' experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health setting

Knowledge and Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management

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.

Stepney & Wapping Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

Glasshouse Fields Centre, 68 Glasshouse Fields,

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearper annum Incl HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

363-TH7331693

Job locations

Stepney & Wapping Neighbourhood Mental Health Team

Glasshouse Fields Centre, 68 Glasshouse Fields,