Senior Psychological Therapist (IAPT)

Job responsibilities

You should have:

HCPC registered Counselling or Clinical Psychologist

with BABCP full accreditation or working towards this

OR

Psychological Therapist with qualification equal to Level 7 PG Cert and/or PGDip and/or Masters level and/or core mental health training e.g. nursing, social work.

A recognised group training by a registered provider.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details around duties and responsibilities.

Find out more about us at https://newhamtalkingtherapies.nhs.uk/

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• HCPC registered Counselling or Clinical Psychologist
• OR Psychological Therapist with an IAPT HI qualification
• Must hold appropriate professional registration

Desirable

• Supervision training: IAPT course or other appropriate supervision course.
• Recognised group training by a registered provider

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in an IAPT setting, or delivering treatment to primary care clients, liaising and consulting with GPs and community providers.
• Experience of managing and supervising professionals from different backgrounds.
• Experience of either managing or coordinating wait lists.
• Experience in developing services to respond to User needs.
• Work as an experienced psychologist/psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one Psychological therapy modality.
• Excellence and experience in the continuous improvement of high and/or low intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers, with experience of delivering this within primary care and or an IAPT compliant service.
• Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
• Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
• Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources.

Desirable

• Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.
• Experience of working with couples, groups and families.
• Experience of working across various mental health services, including severe and complex mental health services.
• Experience of working with Eating Disorders.
• Experience of managing a waiting list.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Communication & Relationship skills: Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
• Able to provide & receive 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.
• Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
• Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
• Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
• Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
• Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
• Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
• Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
• Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
• Knowledge of guidelines and systems: Knowledge of, and ability to apply, government/advisory body frameworks and guidelines relating to mental health.
• Knowledge of mental health and primary care systems.
• Understanding and experience of carrying out audit, clinical governance and clinical effectiveness procedures.
• Planning and organisational skills: Able to plan, organise and prioritise a complex workload.
• Physical skills: Basic keyboard skills.
• Information resources: Able to record and report on clinical information.
• Competent in use of IT packages - word processing, e-mail and internet.
• Competent use of clinical data systems to record and report on performance activity.
• Research & Guidance: Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
• Up to date knowledge of psychological research and national guidance relevant to the client group.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group.
• Cultural awareness: Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
• Flexibility: Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need.

Desirable

• Physical skills: Driving.
• Information resources: Competent use of other IT packages e.g. PowerPoint, Excel and Access.
• Research & Guidance; Active research interests.
• Published research.
• Cultural competence: Able to provide a cultural competent service.
• Flexibility: Able to innovate on the basis of theoretical knowledge.

Supervision, teaching, training

Essential

• Understanding of, and commitment to, the supervision process.
• Experience of supervising other's clinical work.
• Able to organise and deliver teaching and training.
• Able to contribute a Psychological perspective in work with other professional groups.

Desirable

• Experience of developing, organising, and delivering specialist training programmes.

Personal

Essential

• Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
• 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, during client contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
• Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
• Working conditions: Able to manage effectively verbal aggression from service users, families, etc and the risk of physical aggression.
• Values: Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
• Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
• Committed to reflective practice.

Other

Essential

• Able to work to professional guidelines.
• Must be capable of accountability for own work, of autonomous clinical practice, of being guided by precedent and of working towards defined results.

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).