Applied Psychologist

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, e.g., outpatient, community, inpatient etc.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings/teams.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience working as an applied psychologist
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress, and to hold the stress of others.
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Desirable

• Experience of providing training to a range of stakeholders
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
• Research and development
• Project Management
• Commitment to multi-disciplinary working

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation, guidelines, policies and government-led initiatives, and mental health needs in relation to older adult patients.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. attachment, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
• The Trust's Quality Improvement System

Desirable

• Post-doctoral knowledge in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including supervisor training for doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees.
• Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour

Essential

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registered as practitioner psychologist
• Continued professional development through structured self-study, specialist clinical supervision, and/or relevant combination of short courses
• Trained in care co-ordination

Desirable

• Additional postgraduate advanced training/qualification in one or more relevant therapy approaches e.g. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, neuropsychology, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, EMDR, SCM, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy.
• Prepared to successfully complete the supervisory qualification.
• Registration with BPS or ACP

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management (including risk assessment and management) frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Ability to provide and promote appropriate support to carers and staff exposed to highly challenging situations.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to balance and respond to urgent or competing service demands
• A willingness to be flexible in managing own time in order to respond to service needs
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS and HCPC
• Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
• Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
• Utilise psychometric tests competently
• Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
• Use approved breakaway techniques
• Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings.

Desirable

• Skills in providing training to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to support and promote service development or quality improvement projects.