Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

• Provide a specialist psychology service to service users on the adult mental health wards.
• Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
• Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma informed approaches.
• Support the development and roll out ofTrauma Informed Approachesacross HPFT inpatient services as we change the question people ask from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happened to you?"

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Essential

• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist.
• Experience working as a qualified practitioner with clients with severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
• Experience of working within acute or crisis services.
• Current full registration with HCPC
• Training in risk assessment and management.

Desirable

• Post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT, Systemic Therapy, Family Interventions.
• Experience of supervising qualified clinical staff from a range of professional backgrounds including HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists.

Essential

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with 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 off highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well-being.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two evidence based psychological interventions including CBT, Systemic Therapy or Family Interventions.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of Clinical / Counselling Psychology.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration.
• Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks.
• Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures.
• Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments.
• Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to adult mental health and psychological working in long term conditions, such as personality disorder.
• Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients in mental health crisis
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
• Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision