Principal Clinical Psychologist - East Midlands Gambling Harms Service

Job summary

Are you looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills?

Do you want to make a difference in the provision and development of excellent clinical services for people with gambling difficulties that lead to harm?

Do you want the challenge of designing and developing a new specialist service within a supportive and encouraging Trust?

Are you good at building relationships, working with teams and promoting new ways of working things?

Then come and join a Division of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, which is over 300 strong, in a Trust where psychological thinking is highly valued.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative experienced Clinical Psychologist to work 1 WTE and lead on the development and provision of a new high-quality gambling clinic to serve the East Midlands.

You will be a leading member of the multi-disciplinary team, working alongside the consultant psychiatrist and operational lead.

You will provide advice, consultation and supervision to other Clinical Psychologists and multidisciplinary colleagues working within the service alongside clinical delivery of a case load.

Applicants should have personal values and behaviours that align with those outlined by Derbyshire Healthcare and NHS values.

Main duties of the job

We are excited to offer this 8b role which provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced Psychologist to further develop and consolidate their skills working within the specialist area of Gambling harm.

You will be a senior Clinical Psychologist within the Division and will provide both a leadership and development role alongside a clinical one.

You will provide an expert clinical service through individual and/or group work, as well as provide advice, consultation and supervision to other multidisciplinary colleagues working within the service.

You will have excellent relationship-building skills and abilities to manage varied work demands.

Managed within the profession, you will be joining a committed team of highly-skilled Clinical Psychologists, working within Adult Services and a wide network of Psychologists, working in other specialties across the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

About us

Join Derbyshire Healthcare and our friendly team to become part of a compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to making a positive difference.

Our CQC rating was good overall with some outstanding services, and staff rated the Trust highly on health and wellbeing, morale, and management.

We have excellent opportunities to further develop specialist skills.

Within the Psychological Therapies Service, we have clinicians with training and experience in a range of therapeutic models including ISTDP, MBT, ACT, CFT, Systemic therapy, CAT, EMDR.

There are multiple opportunities for peer support, specialist supervision groups (eg therapy models, dissociation, EMDR, neuropsychology) and regular CPD events.

We have excellent links with local Clinical Psychology Training Courses and provide regular placements and teaching.

Things are changing and developing rapidly to improve care for services users in Derbyshire.

Developing services and shaping services to be more psychologically informed to meet the needs of our service users is a large part of that. Come and join us and be part of that change.