Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (social work, nursing, occupational therapy).
2. Post graduate diploma or higher degree in DBT.
Desirable criteria
1. Other related academic qualifications.
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Experience of working in a service for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
2. Experience of the application of psychology/therapy in different cultural contexts.
3. Experience of administration, scoring and written interpretation of formal personality tools and/or neuropsychological assessments.
4. Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and willingness to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS' or their professional body's guidelines.
5. Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Highly developed specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice, particularly in respect of adults with severe and enduring mental health needs (including complex emotional needs and trauma history).
2. Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS or their professional bodies.
3. Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work in relevant setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
1. Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
2. Able to make judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options).
3. Able to provide services in an environment with service users who may be challenging and where the awareness of risk must always be maintained.
4. Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity.
5. Able to reflect on own professional practice through the clinical supervision process.
6. Keyboard skills.
7. Psychomotor skills necessary to administer complex psychological tests and video equipment.
8. Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
1. Professional registration with the appropriate Health Professions Council (HCPC, RMN, etc.).
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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