Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Are you a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist passionate about supporting young people and their families? We're currently looking for someone to join us full time at CAMHS Phoenix, based in Wokingham, and working Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm.
CAMHS Phoenix is a specialist day care service for young people aged 12-18. We offer a range of intensive, multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at preventing, diagnosing, managing, and treating severe and enduring mental illness.
We're seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate, and proactive professional to lead and oversee the delivery of high-quality, specialist psychological therapies for young people and their families accessing our Tier 4 Hospital at Home and Day Patient Mental Health services in Berkshire. Experience working within a CAMHS or Children's Service is helpful, but we welcome applications if you feel you have transferable skills.
As the Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you'll play a key role in coordinating our psychological services, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, and teaching staff. You'll be involved in the full spectrum of care, from prevention to evidence-based treatment, and will be instrumental in helping young people and their families navigate complex mental health challenges.
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
Main duties of the job
* Provide a combination of direct service work and provision of consultation and supervision of professional colleagues within the clinical team, and across other sectors of care.
* Provide service developments as required to ensure patients receive the most appropriate interventions in a timely way to enable their recovery, balancing the most current research evidence, available resource, and understanding of local and national policy and objectives.
* Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
* Work autonomously within professional and local guidelines and policies and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
* Ensure robust risk assessments are completed for all activities off site and that each young person has an appropriate risk assessment for off-site activities in conjunction with the nursing team.
* Keep accurate and up to date documentation using RIO on participation in activities and any information relevant to the young person's presentation or identified concerns/risks.
* Attend the handovers and multi-disciplinary team meetings providing feedback on patients and participating in decision making.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance
* 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
* Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology and clinical supervision training for psychology trainees.
* Registered and accredited with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or equivalent.
* Specialist post-doctoral training, experience and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches with an evidence base in the area of specialism, including lifespan developmental psychology, eating disorders, psychosis, impulse control and emotional regulation difficulties.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and Other Ethnic Groups.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Alun Lewis on 07815485269 or email: alun.lewis@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the BPS (British Psychological Society).
* Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Additional accreditations (or working towards these) to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, BPS).
* Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision.
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of substantial post-doctoral training, experience and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches in the assessment and treatment of PTSD/C-PTSD.
* Evidence of post qualification or specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post and clinical supervision.
* Clinical supervision training for psychological therapy trainees and qualified staff.
Experience
* Significant experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the treatment of PTSD/C-PTSD.
* Significant experience of working in evidence-based ways with traumatised people including those with PTSD/C-PTSD.
* Significant experience of working in evidence-based ways with traumatised people including those with PTSD/C-PTSD.
* Experience of dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances, such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics.
* Experience of providing professional/clinical supervision and line-management to qualified members of staff.
* Experience of teaching and experience of developing and leading the delivery of training programmes.
* Experience of leading service evaluation and implementing change from a national and local health or social care change agenda that impacts across services and professions.
* Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism and equality of access to services
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Detailed and advanced knowledge of assessment and a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions for PTSD/C-PTSD.
* Experience of other models of trauma-focussed therapy including EMDR, NET and/or compassion-focussed therapy.
* Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
* Exceptional interpersonal and highly effective communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development, and improvement.
* Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office/Teams, and the internet).
Additional requirements
* Demonstrates the ability to respond to people's needs sensitively, particularly with reference to all aspects of diversity.
* Able to work flexibly as required, to work in-person from base and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
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.
CAMHS- T4 hospital at home service, Wokingham Hospital
£60,983 to £70,536 a yearper annum ( Incl of HCAS) + 5.5% 2024/25 Pay Award
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
371-TAPCFS313-C
Job locations
CAMHS- T4 hospital at home service, Wokingham Hospital
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