Highly Specialist Psychologist (Trauma Focused Care)
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) or CBT Therapist (Band 7) to join our Richmond Integrated Recovery Hub (CMHT), initially on a 12-month fixed term basis with further opportunities possible subsequently.
A large emphasis of this role is working with clients with traumatic backgrounds and presentations of PTSD and C-PTSD, and specialist supervision and further training opportunities can be provided by our renowned Traumatic Stress Service. Within this role you will also play a key role in promoting trauma informed care within the teams, through consultation, supervision and training.
It is an exciting time to join our trust, as we are well underway with our community transformation plans to improve access and provision for clients with severe mental health difficulties. Our transformation has placed a lot more emphasis on lived experience and peer support, working in partnership with primary care and developing new links with the voluntary sector.
Training and Development Opportunities:
We are committed to getting the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.
We provide several CPD opportunities as well as individual and specialist group supervision to support your development.
Main Duties of the Job
The successful applicant will be committed to MDT working and to advancing trauma informed care across the trust. You will contribute to the delivery of NICE recommended evidence-based psychological therapies for severe and enduring mental health conditions, including psychosis & bipolar affective disorder, enduring depression and anxiety disorders and complex PTSD. The role is dynamic and will require you to attend multidisciplinary meetings and to offer supervision, consultation, and training to clinicians within the wider MDT team, as required.
Richmond adult mental health services are comprised of two Integrated Recovery Hubs (CMHTs) with psychologists being highly valued and fully integrated in the service. You will be joining our friendly, supportive and well-established teams and you will be working closely alongside other experienced psychologists. As a psychology team, we meet regularly and we place a lot of importance on the health and wellbeing of all our staff.
We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Job Responsibilities
* To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources.
* To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems.
* To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups.
* To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals.
* To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
* To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans.
* To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across various care settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course.
* Experience of working with people who experience severe, complex, and long-term mental health problems.
* Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through clinical supervision.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Training & Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
* 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.
Knowledge & Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* Well-developed skills in effective communication of complex, sensitive information.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* 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.
Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
£59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS.
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