Senior Psychotherapist/Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to develop services by offering a permanent Band 7 or Band 8a Senior Psychotherapist/clinical/counselling psychologist (0.8 wte).
We are keen to consider applications from individuals with direct perinatal experience or those seeking to develop their skills in a new and innovative role.
Come and join our expanding psychological therapies team within a passionate and friendly service.
The Specialist Perinatal Service is a well-established multidisciplinary community team providing a range of tailored approaches to meet the mental health needs of women, birthing people, and their families in the perinatal period. We aim to provide a timely, integrated, high quality, and effective service.
Main duties of the job
Job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will undertake initial assessments and direct therapeutic work with women/birthing people experiencing a wide range of mental health problems, often relating to complex trauma or attachment difficulties.
There are also opportunities for indirect working, including supervision, consultation, and training to both colleagues within the Specialist Perinatal Team and wider systems, including PETALS (the maternal mental health service), maternity services, perinatal IAPT, specialist psychotherapy services and parent-infant mental health services.
The post offers an incredibly supportive team working environment. The successful post holder will receive regular and consistent line management, clinical and professional supervision, and develop relationships with established psychologists and psychological therapists working within the service who regularly meet for ongoing CPD, discussion of clinical / professional issues and invaluable peer support.
Our service is keen to recruit people who enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary team, who are passionate, creative, adaptable, and responsive to working with and meeting the needs of women, birthing people, partners, and families during such a fundamentally important and crucial time.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Professional qualification in Clinical / Counselling Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
* Registration as a Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist with the HCPC
* Post qualification training in a specialised area of psychological practice (e.g CBT, IPT, CFT, EMDR, Systemic, CAT, DBT etc)
* Training in recognised Parent Infant Mental Health courses
* Completed formal training in supervision
Experience
* Experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist
* Experience of working with client groups experiencing moderate-severe mental health problems across the life span
* Experience of delivering structured psychological interventions to clients with complex psychological problems
* Experience of working with trauma and providing trauma-focused psychological therapy
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of providing supervision
* Experience of providing teaching and training
* Experience of working in specialist perinatal services
* Experience of working in parent-infant mental health settings, where the child is less than 2 years old
Knowledge
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of psychology
* Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. cPTSD, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc)
* Practitioner level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
* Knowledge of policy and legislation in relation to perinatal mental health
Skills and Abilities
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
* Skills in formulation of dynamic risk and development and implementation of positive risk management plans
* Ability to organise time effectively
* Ability to use own initiative and to work under supervision where appropriate
* Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other professionals
* Skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
Other Requirements
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
* Ability to identify, and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
* Ability to travel to a range of locations in a timely and efficient manner.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework
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.
£46,148 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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