Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996/Psychological Therapists) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registration with HCPC

Essential

• 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 including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient, and residential care settings, 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 providing teaching, training and professional clinical supervision

Desirable

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist/psychological therapist within the specialist field of Clinical Health Psychology.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified
• Experience of providing teaching, training and professional clinical supervision.

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management (frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration)
• Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to patients with psychological difficulties.
• Knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological therapies and assessment methodologies, in particular CBT, and their application with adults with chronic pain, and fatigue and Long COVID.