Deputy Clinical Lead (Clinical/Counselling psychologist)

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide clinical placements for Doctoral Trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, ensuring those trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

2. To provide training (CPD) to other mental health staff.

3. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with mental health across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

4. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate

5. To provide CPD and clinical supervision to other qualified psychologists and therapists for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service users functioning. To contribute to personal development / performance reviews / appraisals for qualified psychologists and therapists

6. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

7.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan

8. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of services users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
• Advanced supervision training in CBT or other relevant modality
• Registration with the UK HCPC or BABCP accredited

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Leadership and professional management training

Experience

Essential

• Significant and assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist and including at Band 8a
• Experience of leadership and management within a mental health therapies service.
• Experience of representing Therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists and CBT therapists.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stantonbury Health Centre

Purbeck

Milton Keynes

MK14 6BL

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)