Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist/ Psychological Therapist
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of its employees. The Trust Employee Psychology Service provides support to help employees recover from, and develop resilience to, work-related stress and trauma. We are currently seeking an experienced 8a Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist/Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist to work within the Service.
Main duties of the job
The role is Trustwide and will involve direct therapeutic activities and liaison/co-working with the Employee Support Service and various other departments. The successful candidate will be registered with a professional body (HCPC, GMC, NMC, SW-E), have previous experience of working at an 8a level, be committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of employees, and have experience of providing a range of psychological interventions for trauma, anxiety, stress, and depression. The post holder will report directly to the Clinical Lead for Health and Well-being and will be required to offer online video appointments (individual and group) and face-to-face appointments in the North of the Trust or at the Flatts Lane Centre, Middlesbrough as required for individual colleagues and team support.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will provide a range of psychological interventions for trauma, anxiety, stress, and depression. Interventions are designed to meet the needs of colleagues within the trust and therefore the post offers scope for innovation and joint initiatives with the other Health and Well-being work within the Trust.
Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this, we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A qualification that leads to registration with a professional regulatory body (HCPC, GMC, NMC or Social Work England) AND current registration with this professional regulatory body.
* A qualification that provides eligibility to apply for accreditation in one of the four Governed Psychological Therapies.
* Trained and experienced in generic clinical supervision and care coordination.
* Evidence of continuing relevant CPD, including clinical practice and leadership within the NHS.
* Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical/counselling/forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
* Completion of a BPS approved Clinical Supervision course for eligibility to provide supervision of applied psychology trainees.
* Either commencing post-doctoral training in a Governed Psychological Therapy or Neuropsychology, completion of post-qualification training in area of specialised psychological practice relevant to the team/service area, or the equivalent level of expertise relating to a speciality area of psychological practice.
Experience
* Substantial post qualification experience of specialist model specific psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings and age ranges.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
* Significant experience in consultation, clinical supervision, and audit activities.
* Experience of providing training to other professional groups and to relevant training courses (e.g., medical, nursing, social work).
* Quality and service improvement and evaluation.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Leadership development commensurate with the banding as outlined on the NHS Leadership Academy Leadership Cards.
* Evidence of considering culture, power, and privilege within direct clinical work, indirect clinical work, and service development projects.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their family, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Able to provide a wide range of understanding of staff H&WB needs.
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.
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