Job summary
We are looking for two enthusiastic and experienced Highly Specialist Clinical/ Counselling Psychologists to join our South East Wandsworth Integrated Recovery Hubs. This is a multidisciplinary Integrated Recovery Hub in Wandsworth and provides specialist assessment, treatment, and recovery work for adults with a wide variety of severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
The Trust has a strong commitment to the development of psychological work, and you will be part of a larger group of psychologists working in the service and will receive regular supervision from the borough psychology professional lead. There are good CPD opportunities within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the provision of a systematic clinical psychology service within the context of a multidisciplinary team focusing on:
* Specialist psychological assessments
* Evidence-based psychological interventions
* Group work
* Teaching, training, and consultation to MDT
* Service evaluation, audit, and development
* Provide a training placement to a trainee clinical psychologist
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the clients' care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology.
Desirable
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Training & Qualifications
Essential
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and (for Clinical Psychologists) neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology; OR alternative training outside of the UK that is recognised by the Health & Care Professions Council leading to registration in the UK as a Clinical or Counselling psychologist.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* To be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council under the appropriate domain-specific title.
Desirable
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* 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, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., dual diagnosis including people experiencing psychosis with personality disorder, substance misuse, learning disability, neurological dysfunction, additional disabilities, etc).
* High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Knowledge of recent policy and legislation in relation to people with severe and enduring mental health problems specifically and concerning mental health in general.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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