Specialist or Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist 7/8a

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is seeking a Practitioner Psychologist to provide direct clinical work and promote psychological thinking among team members. Responsibilities include delivering psychological assessments, evidence-based therapy, and clinical supervision. The role requires post-graduate level training in psychology and substantial experience in psychological interventions.

Benefits

Peer support/supervision opportunities

Continuous personal development

Teaching and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology.
• Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Significant experience in delivering evidence based psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and formulation.
• Deliver evidence based psychological therapy and supervision.
• Contribute to clinical leadership and service development.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Evidence based psychological therapy

Clinical supervision

Psychological formulations

Education

Post-graduate training in psychology

Job description

Overview

A key part of the role is to provide direct clinical work, promote psychological thinking with all members of the team by helping staff to develop formulations for clients, offering supervision and joint work with the team, supporting staff wellbeing and providing training in psychological theory and its implementation.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation, and the delivery of evidence based psychological therapy and clinical supervision.
• Contribute to the collective clinical leadership of the service and to service development within the locality and the professional leadership of psychological professions.
• Deliver and supervise evidence based psychological interventions for SMHP and support staff wellbeing and development of formulations for clients in collaboration with the team.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Significant experience and competencies in delivering and supervising evidence based psychological intervention for SMHP.

About the Trust

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

Our Approach

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We\'re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it. We won\'t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Opportunities

We provide excellent opportunities for peer support/supervision, CPD, teaching/training, and research and audit in line with strategic developments. There are also strong links to the local Hull and Teesside D Clinical Psychology Programme as we are key providers of academic and clinical experience components both in terms of teaching and supervision.