Band 8a Acute Services Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist

• Completing assessments/formulations with the client to help guide the CRHT treatment plan and make recommendations for ongoing psychological care/treatment upon discharge.
• Completing brief and extended psychological interventions using evidence based models.
• Working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team to support trauma-informed, psychological thinking and promotion of risk formulation/safety planning to inform the team's intervention and discharge plans.
• Supervision of trainee psychologists, where appropriate.
• Offering regular reflective practice and team formulations to the wider teams as well as training on a range of relevant topics.
• Working on relevant research projects, audits, data analysis and trust related wider projects that help support and promote national initiatives and priorities in the delivery of inpatient care.

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Essential

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology or counselling, accredited by BPS
• Ongoing further specialist training/accredited short courses
• Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical/counselling psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapiest)

Essential

• Experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety and severity of client groups & clinical problems, in various settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
• Experience of supervision and teaching

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

Essential

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
• Skills in neuropsychological assessment.

Essential

• Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
• Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context.
• Evidence of CPD as recommended by BPS

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical settings and service user group

Essential

• Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Able to use multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to travel independently

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.