Highly Specialist Counselling/Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Education/Qualification/Training

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS OR appropriate Psychotherapy qualification OR CBT qualification

Registration with the Health Professionals Council or other appropriate regulatory body.

HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these) to an appropriate level approved by the Head of Psychology and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview., including:

Supervision skills

Leadership training

Perinatal mental health

Brief Interventions

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Eye movement desensitsation and reprocessing (EMDR)

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Behavioural couples therapy (BCT)

Complicated Grief Therapy (CGT)

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG)

Video feedback for positive parenting (VIPP)

Circle of Security

Experience

Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist for at least two years.

Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team, with adult service users who have experienced moderate-severe mental health difficulties such as psychosis, personality disorder, PTSD, OCD, severe depression and anxiety.

Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.

Experiencing of conducting psychological assessments.

Experience of working with risk issues and safeguarding, making referrals to statuary organisations where appropriate.

Experience of offering time limited one to one psychological interventions and group work.

Experience of working with service users in the perinatal period.

Experience of supervising psychology colleagues.

Experience of line management.

Experience of working within the principles of trauma informed care.

Knowledge and Skills

Communication & Relationship skills:

Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.

Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.

Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.

Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the team/service.

Cultural awareness and competence: Understanding and awareness of the potential impact of racism, discrimination & disadvantage on the mental health of Black and ethnic minority people. Able to provide a cultural competent service. Ability to reflect critically on ones own identity. Commitment to examining and challenging ones own biases and developing inclusive services and work places. Experience of working with interpreters.

Analytical & judgmental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations.

Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation.

Able to provide brief therapeutic interventions.

Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.

Physical skills:

Basic keyboard skills.

Information resources:

Able to record and report on as required clinical information.

Competent in use of basic IT packages word processing, e-mail and internet.

Research:

Active research interests. Record of published research.

Other

Physical effort: Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial proportion of working time.

Mental effort: Able to concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time.

Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.

Able to work to professional guidelines and inline with trust values.

Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice.

Commitment to working as part of an MDT and within the framework of the secondary care psychology service.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS OR appropriate Psychotherapy qualification OR CBT qualification Registration with the Health Professionals Council or other appropriate regulatory body.
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study or experience (or a combination of these) to an appropriate level approved by the Head of Psychology and demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview., including: Supervision skills Leadership training Perinatal mental health Brief Interventions Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) Eye movement desensitsation and reprocessing (EMDR) Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Behavioural couples therapy (BCT) Complicated Grief Therapy (CGT) Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) Video feedback for positive parenting (VIPP) Circle of Security

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist for at least two years.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team, with adult service users who have experienced moderate-severe mental health difficulties such as psychosis, personality disorder, PTSD, OCD, severe depression and anxiety.
• Experience of providing a clinical service to a multicultural population.
• Experiencing of conducting psychological assessments.
• Experience of working with risk issues and safeguarding, making referrals to statuary organisations where appropriate.

Desirable

• Experience of offering time limited one to one psychological interventions and group work.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Communication & Relationship skills: Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
• Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance. Sensitive and respectful approach to the needs of people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, their families and carers.
• Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the team/service.
• Cultural awareness and competence: Understanding and awareness of the potential impact of racism, discrimination & disadvantage on the mental health of Black and ethnic minority people. Able to provide a cultural competent service. Ability to reflect critically on one's own identity. Commitment to examining and challenging one's own biases and developing inclusive services and work places. Experience of working with interpreters.
• Analytical & judgemental skills: Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations. Able to compare and select from a range of intervention options, (minimum of two therapeutic orientations) based on formulation. Able to provide brief therapeutic interventions. Awareness of government frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health, e.g. NHS Long Term Plan.
• Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills. Information resources: Able to record and report on as required clinical information. Competent in use of basic IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.

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

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newham Perinatal Mental Health team

Glen Rd

London

E13 8SL

Employer's website

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