Job summary
As part of our expanding National Psychological Services Team, you'll have the flexibility and support to develop and tailor our services to meet the evolving needs of the people we work with. If you're looking for a role where your voice matters and your work truly makes a difference wed love to hear from you. Be part of something extraordinary. Join a passionate frontline team working with people who've faced some of life's toughest challenges, including problem substance use and trauma and help them rewrite their stories. You'll be part of a local team driven by compassion, purpose, and a shared belief that everyone deserves to feel safe and build a life of meaning for themselves and their families. If you're ready to make a real, lasting impact this is where your work truly matters.We're building a dedicated psychological workforce within County Durham Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service rated Outstanding by the CQC and we're looking for a passionate Psychologist to help shape it from the ground up. You'll lead the development of mental health provision across the service driving forward the co-occurring complexities team and shaping the growth of our psychological workforce. This includes providing expert case consultation and supervision, while supporting and guiding trainee Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners as they build their clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
You will make a difference by:
Driving meaningful change by leading on the assessment, formulation, and intervention of complex cases including delivering highly specialist psychological assessments and trauma-informed interventions for individuals and their wider support networks.- Delivering cutting-edge care through evidence-based, trauma-responsive interventions that address both problem substance use and co-occurring mental health challenges.
- Inspiring and supporting teams by facilitating reflective practice groups, collaborative team formulations, and psychologically informed approaches that elevate both clinical and non-clinical practice.
- Innovating and co-creating by designing, piloting, and co-facilitating engaging training sessions, therapeutic groups, and reflective practice workshops.
- Guiding excellence by offering expert clinical supervision to a skilled, multi-disciplinary team fostering growth, resilience, and quality care.
- Leading with purpose by providing local clinical leadership and hands-on supervision for staff, trainees, and volunteers, under the guidance of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
- Shaping a thriving team culture by championing psychological safety, shared learning, and mutual support.
- Taking the lead on key areas of service delivery, actively contributing to audits, evaluations, and the continuous evolution of high-impact care.
About us
Our high quality, evidence-based services are designed
around the needs of the people we serve.
We know that people and their problems dont fit into neatly
labelled boxes. And that finding help can be hard when life gets messy.
Too many people hit dead ends when they need open doors and
answers.
Join a passionate frontline team working with people whove
faced some of lifes toughest challenges, including problem substance use and
trauma and help them rewrite their stories.
You'll be part of a local team driven by compassion, purpose, and a shared
belief that everyone deserves to feel safe and build a life of meaning for
themselves and their families.
If you're ready to make a real, lasting impact this is where your work truly
matters.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Workplace Values
Our values underpin everything we do from how we work together through to how we design and deliver
services. All our work to fulfil this vision is strengthened by our values.
Kindness: be generous, caring and compassionate.
Courage: be bold, trust, commit.
Respect: everyone deserves dignity
Lead a psychologically informed approach to interventions to support individuals throughout their
treatment journey and to support the development and growth of a greater psychological approach
to treatment of substance misuse for Waythrough
- To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and
inventive.
- Provide specialist psychological assessment of service users referred for treatment of
addiction, linking together the complex domains of substance use, social challenges and
physical and mental health problems.
- Collaboratively formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or
management of service users psychological problems, based on a multi-factorial
understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
- Undertake a range of evidence-based psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation
interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of
modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual
and their context. Providing ongoing evaluation of outcomes of the intervention.
- Exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological
management of service users on own case load
- Work in own scope of practice and refer on to specialist services if required
- Provide a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-professional assessment, using
formulation to communicate a psychological understanding of client needs to other
involved services to enhance care.
- Undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant
service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the
multiprofessional team.
- ake the lead role in developing and overseeing the delivery of evidence-based
psychological and psychosocial interventions in the service, ensuring MDT colleagues
have the training, competencies and supervision to deliver these to the required standard.
- Support the MDT to deliver trauma-informed care. This may involve formal training followed
by ongoing regular consultation and support to apply this to the everyday work of the team
- Teach and support in a psychology lead approach to other professionals and trainees in
collaboration with other clinicians and trainers.
- If appropriate to service Clinically supervise, appraise and participate in the management
of Assistant Psychologists in line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies
(eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK)
- Offer training and placements to Psychology training programmes around working with
substance use.
- Offer clinical supervison and specialist advice to operational and clinical team members. in
line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and
DCoP, ACP-UK), to non-psychologist colleagues around the competent delivery of
evidence -based psychosocial interventions to people using substances, and their families /
concerned significant others.
- Evaluate the delivery and impact of psychosocial interventions in the service.
- Work with the central Clinical Department and operational colleagues in leading the
development of a psychological approach to substance misuse treatment throughout the
organisation.
- Work alongside the team to ensure all standards required by the Care Quality Commission
CQC are met and maintained
- Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical
supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required from an
appropriately experienced psychological professional, in line with the guidance from
professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK).
- Develop therapy-specific competencies and participate in CPD and supervision to maintain
registration with the relevant professional bodies.
- Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures and guidelines
both internal and external. This includes Waythrough's clinical governance framework.
- Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional
expertise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Workplace Values
Our values underpin everything we do from how we work together through to how we design and deliver
services. All our work to fulfil this vision is strengthened by our values.
Kindness: be generous, caring and compassionate.
Courage: be bold, trust, commit.
Respect: everyone deserves dignity
Lead a psychologically informed approach to interventions to support individuals throughout their
treatment journey and to support the development and growth of a greater psychological approach
to treatment of substance misuse for Waythrough
- To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and
inventive.
- Provide specialist psychological assessment of service users referred for treatment of
addiction, linking together the complex domains of substance use, social challenges and
physical and mental health problems.
- Collaboratively formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or
management of service users psychological problems, based on a multi-factorial
understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
- Undertake a range of evidence-based psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation
interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of
modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual
and their context. Providing ongoing evaluation of outcomes of the intervention.
- Exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological
management of service users on own case load
- Work in own scope of practice and refer on to specialist services if required
- Provide a specialist psychological perspective in the multi-professional assessment, using
formulation to communicate a psychological understanding of client needs to other
involved services to enhance care.
- Undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant
service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the
multiprofessional team.
- ake the lead role in developing and overseeing the delivery of evidence-based
psychological and psychosocial interventions in the service, ensuring MDT colleagues
have the training, competencies and supervision to deliver these to the required standard.
- Support the MDT to deliver trauma-informed care. This may involve formal training followed
by ongoing regular consultation and support to apply this to the everyday work of the team
- Teach and support in a psychology lead approach to other professionals and trainees in
collaboration with other clinicians and trainers.
- If appropriate to service Clinically supervise, appraise and participate in the management
of Assistant Psychologists in line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies
(eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK)
- Offer training and placements to Psychology training programmes around working with
substance use.
- Offer clinical supervison and specialist advice to operational and clinical team members. in
line with the guidance from professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and
DCoP, ACP-UK), to non-psychologist colleagues around the competent delivery of
evidence -based psychosocial interventions to people using substances, and their families /
concerned significant others.
- Evaluate the delivery and impact of psychosocial interventions in the service.
- Work with the central Clinical Department and operational colleagues in leading the
development of a psychological approach to substance misuse treatment throughout the
organisation.
- Work alongside the team to ensure all standards required by the Care Quality Commission
CQC are met and maintained
- Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical
supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required from an
appropriately experienced psychological professional, in line with the guidance from
professional and regulatory bodies (eg HCPC, BPS DCP and DCoP, ACP-UK).
- Develop therapy-specific competencies and participate in CPD and supervision to maintain
registration with the relevant professional bodies.
- Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures and guidelines
both internal and external. This includes Waythrough's clinical governance framework.
- Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional
expertise.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Degree in Psychology, accredited by BPS for Graduate Basis Registration (GBR)
- or equivalent.
- - Doctorate in clinical psychology approved by the HCPC (or equivalent) accredited
- by BPS.
- - Proficient in Microsoft Office programmes.
- -Ability to research, analyse and manage complex, multi-factorial clinical
- information from a range of sources.
- -Ability to integrate complex multi-factorial clinical information into a formulation,
- utilising a variety of psychological perspectives
- -Experience or a demonstrative interest in substance misuse and addiction work.
- -Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the service user group.
- -Coaching, teaching and mentoring of a multi-professional team.
- -Experience delivering clinical supervision
- -Experience in performance management.
Desirable
- -Generation and implementation of initiatives
- -Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the behaviour
- -Awareness of national strategies impacting on drug and alcohol services.
- -Experience of clinical research and clinical audits.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Degree in Psychology, accredited by BPS for Graduate Basis Registration (GBR)
- or equivalent.
- - Doctorate in clinical psychology approved by the HCPC (or equivalent) accredited
- by BPS.
- - Proficient in Microsoft Office programmes.
- -Ability to research, analyse and manage complex, multi-factorial clinical
- information from a range of sources.
- -Ability to integrate complex multi-factorial clinical information into a formulation,
- utilising a variety of psychological perspectives
- -Experience or a demonstrative interest in substance misuse and addiction work.
- -Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the service user group.
- -Coaching, teaching and mentoring of a multi-professional team.
- -Experience delivering clinical supervision
- -Experience in performance management.
Desirable
- -Generation and implementation of initiatives
- -Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the behaviour
- -Awareness of national strategies impacting on drug and alcohol services.
- -Experience of clinical research and clinical audits.
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.
