Highly Specialist Psychotherapist /Clinical /Counselling Psychologist

To provide assessments for specialist psychological interventions/individual therapy based on complex data from a variety of sources to veterans referred to the service. Sources of data include: observations, self-report measures, semi-structured interviews with clients, their families and other professionals involved in the clientscare.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for veterans, including in groups if required. Developing and refining formulations across a range of clients and psychological models.

To manage a therapy caseload providing evidence based psychological therapies to veterans seen within the service in line with targets agreed with management.

To be able to make reasonable adaptations to assessment and intervention processes to accommodate service users with mild learning disabilities and older adults.

To contribute to new methods of service delivery, in order to encourage optimal opportunities for access to service for vulnerable client groups.

To engage in joint working with other staff to optimise the use of resources.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment and discharge of clients. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies providing services for adults with mental health and disability problems.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To work collaboratively with veterans, families/carers and other professionals involved in the care of the client team to communicate information concerning the assessment, including formulations and recommendations of treatment and management using methods of proven efficacy.

Collect, collate, evaluate and report information maintaining accurate clinical records in the management of clients receiving psychological interventions using a web based clinical notes system.

To organise and implement specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and training to other professionals working with veterans with complex needs.

To contribute to risk assessment and risk management of individual clients and provide general advice to other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner to clients, carers and relevant professionals, information about assessments, formulations and treatment plans.

To engage positively within multidisciplinary meetings.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Qualifications

Experince

Knowledge

Essential: - Knowledge of the mental health needs of Military Veterans (Trauma)

Desirable: - Knowledge of procedures that maintain and contribute to the improvement of psychological services

Skills

Desirable: - High-level group facilitation.