Job summary
Exciting Opportunity for a Consultant Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Community Adult Mental Health services.
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced and motivated Consultant Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Community Adult Mental Health Services in Berkshire. You be part of Wokingham Community Mental Health Service and the Trust-wide Psychological Therapies team, where you will lead and develop our community psychological provision for people with significant mental health problems.
This is a rarely available senior community-based position, and you will have a pivotal role in contributing to the transformation of our adult mental health services, ensuring increased access to evidence-based psychological therapies. As a Consultant Psychologist, you will play a crucial role in shaping and developing Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies provision both in the Wokingham locality/Place and across the Trust.
Using your expert knowledge and skills you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with patients in community mental health services. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties, as well as managing your own clinical caseload.
If this opportunity is of interest, and you are looking for a new challenge and the chance to make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
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Provide senior leadership, where required, to the psychological therapists working within the Central Network, and oversee the systems and processes that are in place.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
- Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical/counselling psychology (or approved equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) AND Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) WITH additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BACP, BPS/ACT, EMDR-UK).
- Extensive experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
- A demonstrable track record of Clinical Leadership including providing professional/clinical supervision.
- Evidence of knowledge, experience and expertise in providing care to patients with severe mental illness.
- An enhanced DBS check is required and you will need to travel between bases in Berkshire.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and Other Ethnic Groups.We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contact Dr Colette Selmer, Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist, Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies via email: colette.selmer@berkshire.nhs.uk, who will be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
- Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical/counselling psychology (or approved equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) AND Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) WITH additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BACP, BPS/ACT, EMDR-UK).
- Extensive experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
- A demonstrable track record of Clinical Leadership including providing professional/clinical supervision.
- Evidence of knowledge, experience and expertise in providing care to patients with severe mental illness.
- An enhanced DBS check is required and you will need to travel between bases in Berkshire.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and Other Ethnic Groups.We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contact Dr Colette Selmer, Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist, Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies via email: colette.selmer@berkshire.nhs.uk, who will be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Post graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas)
- Accreditation with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) (Eligibility for) Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BACP, BPS/ACT, EMDR-UK).
- Post qualification specialist training to an accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post
- Clinical supervision training for doctorate psychology trainees (BPS Registered course) and other qualified clinicians
- Professional leadership qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience
- Training and/or proven ability in providing effective education, consultation and coaching to develop and support others.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical Provision: Extensive experience working as a qualified (Principal) clinical/counselling psychologist/psychotherapist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the related specialisms.
- Substantial experience of working in evidence-based ways with service users (and their carers and families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and threatening behaviour.
- Extensive experience of managing highly complex situations concerning safeguarding, risk management, clinical governance, complaints and investigations.
- Clinical & Professional Leadership and Supervision: Demonstrable experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
- Extensive experience of leading services and teams with complex caseloads requiring the application of evidence-based psychological methods, assessments, formulation, and interventions.
- Extensive experience of teaching and professional/clinical supervision as well as experience of developing training and supervisory models
- Operational and Human Resources Management: Evidence of successfully holding responsibility for, delivering and being accountable for services that meet local and national targets
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues
- High level and well-developed ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within the Trust and across the system.
- Extensive experience of successfully managing complex and challenging discussions with system partners, including where there may be disagreement about responsibility for care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Teaching and group facilitation skills.
- Exceptional and highly effective interpersonal communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development and improvement.
- Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO outlook, databases, MS office and the internet)
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Additional requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to respond to people's needs sensitively particularly regarding all aspects of diversity
- Able to work flexibly as required (including on call where relevant) and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Post graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas)
- Accreditation with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) (Eligibility for) Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BACP, BPS/ACT, EMDR-UK).
- Post qualification specialist training to an accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post
- Clinical supervision training for doctorate psychology trainees (BPS Registered course) and other qualified clinicians
- Professional leadership qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience
- Training and/or proven ability in providing effective education, consultation and coaching to develop and support others.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical Provision: Extensive experience working as a qualified (Principal) clinical/counselling psychologist/psychotherapist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the related specialisms.
- Substantial experience of working in evidence-based ways with service users (and their carers and families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and threatening behaviour.
- Extensive experience of managing highly complex situations concerning safeguarding, risk management, clinical governance, complaints and investigations.
- Clinical & Professional Leadership and Supervision: Demonstrable experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
- Extensive experience of leading services and teams with complex caseloads requiring the application of evidence-based psychological methods, assessments, formulation, and interventions.
- Extensive experience of teaching and professional/clinical supervision as well as experience of developing training and supervisory models
- Operational and Human Resources Management: Evidence of successfully holding responsibility for, delivering and being accountable for services that meet local and national targets
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues
- High level and well-developed ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within the Trust and across the system.
- Extensive experience of successfully managing complex and challenging discussions with system partners, including where there may be disagreement about responsibility for care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Teaching and group facilitation skills.
- Exceptional and highly effective interpersonal communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development and improvement.
- Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO outlook, databases, MS office and the internet)
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Additional requirements
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to respond to people's needs sensitively particularly regarding all aspects of diversity
- Able to work flexibly as required (including on call where relevant) and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
