Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job responsibilities

• To Support the delivery of psychological therapies to the Adult Mental Health In-patient Rehab Units.
• Experience across a range of therapeutic models is essential including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and other models such as Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, EMDR and Family Interventions.
• To provide supervision and management to pre-qualified psychology staff within the In-patient Rehab Units.
• To provide consultation and training to the wider MDT
• To provide, monitor and priorities equality of access and service offered to the local population

PHYSICAL SKILLS

Desirable

• Car Driver

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential

• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical/counselling psychology/CBT
• Post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT, DBT, Systemic Therapy, Family Interventions.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Essential

• At least two years' experience working as a qualified practitioner with clients with severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
• Experience of working within rehabilitation or acute services.
• Experience of supervising Trainee/assistant psychologist
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across full range of care settings the
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
• Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision

Desirable

• Experience of service development/project management.

AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE & Ability

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design within the fields of Clinical/ Counselling Psychology
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two evidence based psychological interventions
• Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to adult mental health and psychological working in long term conditions
• Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Essential

• Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information
• Ability to keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

ANALYTICAL SKILLS

Essential

• Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work

DIVERSITY

Essential

• Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with clients from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work and communicate as a responsible participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members' contributions and to encourage participation of all involved.

PHYSICAL EFFORT

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire as required, using suitable mode of transport.

MENTAL EFFORT

Essential

• Ability to deliver complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure.

EMOTIONAL EFFORT

Essential

• Ability to recognise signs of stress and seek the appropriate support.
• Ability to work with people whose behaviour is distressing or in emotionally charged situations

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).