Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

• Delivering systematic provision of highly specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulations, consultation, care planning and individual group interventions within Haltemprice CMHT by providing strong effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions, and practice.
• To contribute to the planning and organisation of community psychological services.
• To provide clinical supervision and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues , and to other non-professional carers.To provide supervision to psychology assistants.
• To engage in research, audit, service evaluations, service developments and quality improvement initiatives.
• To provide support for the staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective and to play an active role within the MDT meetings.
• Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Community Psychology meetings, AMH Speciality meetings, Trust wide Psychology CPD days, CPD SIGs, group supervision, your clinical managerial and professional supervision.
• Being active in your own clinical and professional development which we will actively support you with.

Essential

• Completed post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent if qualified before 1996)
• To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC
• Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups

Desirable

• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychology practice
• Completion of BPS accredited supervision course enabling supervision of doctoral trainees.

Essential

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups , across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
• Experience of working with trauma cases

Desirable

• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills - written and verbal
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/project management skills at an advanced level