Band 8C Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
A part-time Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist position is available at the Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH) Donnington TF2 8JT. We are looking for a psychologist with excellent clinical skills, a committed team focus and experience of strategic change and service development. You'll adapt to a new organisational culture whilst still upholding the highest standards of professional practice.
The successful applicant will join a team of psychology colleagues providing a clinical psychology service with an occupational focus to Armed Forces personnel across the Central network. We have extended our service offer to include remote video consultation which provides opportunities for hybrid working. This role is supported from a base at Donnington where you will be a key part of a well-established multidisciplinary team.
This is a part-time position that will offer the successful candidate 15 hours per week and we'd welcome your interest and application.
* Professional Registration Fees Re-imbursed.
* Free Parking.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service within the Central network (Donnington).
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. You will ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical delivery and professional supervision and support of all other staff within the service/team for which you have designated responsibility. This will include effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of continuing professional development (CPD) needs across the network/local team.
You will act as a highly specialist resource to the wider professional community and, as a major requirement of the job, carry out service-level research, audit, policy and service development.
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
* Providing highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients 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.
* Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental and/or 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. Such treatment plans will accommodate the, sometimes conflicting, needs of the client and their military employer, and must have sufficient flexibility to enhance the clients' operational efficacy whilst delivering optimum clinical care.
* Ensuring that all members of the wider clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.
Knowledge and Skills
* Specialist skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management of adult mental health.
* Higher level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies with at least one to an accredited/accreditable level.
* Specialist skills in evidence-based psychological interventions and in adapting interventions to individual complex needs and complex systems.
* Skills in strategic/organisational work and service development/redesign.
Experience
* Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC regulated practitioner psychologist within adult mental healthcare services.
* Substantial further specialist training and experience commensurate with eligibility for consultant clinical psychologist appointment approval from external BPS assessor.
* Experience of providing supervision and support to psychological and non-psychological staff in a specific therapeutic intervention.
* Substantial post qualification experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy training to a range of professional groups.
* Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups relevant to the community pathway.
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent as accredited by British Psychological Society (BPS) conferring eligibility for Chartership & full membership of Division of Clinical or Counselling Psychology).
* Training must have included models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
Salary
£70,417 to £81,138 a year pro-rata for part time (Pay award pending)
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