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.
The successful candidate will be part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team operating out of our community office based in Isle of Dogs with an equal focus on providing input to the locality inpatient wards at Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health at Mile End Hospital. The post holder will work alongside the team's 8a Psychologist 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.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking someone who values and enjoys multi-disciplinary team working, co-production, indirect psychological interventions, and who is able to work collaboratively across different agencies. We welcome innovations and a readiness to try out new ideas as part of our commitment to continuous improvement and the development of our staff.
Your service area is part of the wider psychology and psychological therapy provision in Tower Hamlets, and you would be joining a community of psychologists and psychological therapists working across various services. The department aims to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience and has an excellent relationship with the Local Recovery College. We meet regularly and support professional development in a range of ways.
The post-holder will be offered a range of opportunities for accredited post-qualification therapy training. The role offers excellent opportunities for developing skills in leadership, service-development and co-production, and there are significant opportunities for career development within the trust.
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
Key responsibilities of the role include to:
* Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users of the locality service, when care is managed under the CPA (community and in patients). This is to be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of quantitative and qualitative sources.
* Be responsible for the formulation and implementation of a broad range of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of service users' mental health problems.
* Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individual service users, carers and groups.
* Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
* Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information.
* Communicate across language and cultural barriers.
* Spend sustained amounts of time with individuals who may be aggressive and hostile.
* Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users as appropriate.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
* HCPC registration.
* BPS accredited degree in psychology or equivalent.
* Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.
* Further training in a therapeutic modality relevant to severe and enduring mental health.
Experience
* At least 2-years' experience of working in the NHS.
* Work within at least two therapeutic modalities.
* Work with at least three client groups.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health setting.
* Some experience of teaching, training and supervision.
* Experience of planning and exercising clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment.
* Work in a multi-cultural setting.
* Placement experience within severe and enduring mental health provision.
Knowledge and Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
* Skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Well developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding.
* Skills in working in multidisciplinary settings.
* Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS.
* Competence in advanced IT packages.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies.
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.
£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum Incl HCAs
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