Principal Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist

• providing specialist assessment, consultation and adapted treatment to adult service users with severe personality difficulties, complexity and high levels of risk to self
• developing and embedding complex formulations with service users and team members
• enhancing and embedding trauma informed care for individuals with co-morbid personality difficulties, complex trauma and dissociative disorders
• providing supervision, advice and consultation to team members, colleagues in other services, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment of people with personality difficulties
• leading on team training, supervision and evaluation
• providing scaffolding on complex systemic dynamics to other teams, across pathways and the organisation (e.g. attendance at complex case panels) under the guidance of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist
• proactively leading on service evaluation, development and appropriate service work streams
• clinical co-ordinator role (enhancing pathway co-ordination, adherence and throughput through the system, including leading on waiting list management, processing of referrals and other service clinical matters)

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the HCPC and British Psychological Society/An Honours Degree in Psychology recognised for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society, or RMN, or equivalent degree level qualification in mental health and Post-graduate qualifications in psychological assessment and psychological therapy (e.g. Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Post-graduate diploma in CBT, IAPT High Intensity CBT diploma).

Essential

• Specialist knowledge, skills and experience of assessment, formulation, reformulation and intervention with adults with complex mental health difficulties
• Specialist knowledge, skills and competencies in understanding, formulating and working with severe personality difficulties
• Specialist knowledge, skills and experience of assessment and management of risk in relation to people with complex psychological presentations and personality disorder.
• Training in Structured Clinical Management, including delivery and supervision of SCM, DBT and/or MBT treatment approaches
• Highly developed knowledge and experience of trauma informed care and approaches utilised for trauma stabilisation
• Demonstrated ability and highly developed specialist teaching, training, consultancy, supervision and leadership skills.
• The ability to contribute to service planning and development in Specialist Psychological Therapies, as appropriate.

Desirable

• Advanced knowledge, delivery and supervision of Structured Clinical Management practitioners, including its adaptions
• Training in and experience of implementing and supervising DBT or MBT
• Training, knowledge and experience of complex trauma and dissociative disorders and their treatment/management
• Specialist training in the assessment of personality difficulties (e.g. IPDE, SCID5- PD)

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• Specialist skills in evidence based psychological interventions
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Well-developed teaching & training skills.
• Well-developed skills in providing clinical supervision and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Formal training in clinical supervision of trainee clinical psychologists and other staff.
• Skills in managing emotional impact of dealing with highly emotive and distressing situations through self-management and use of the clinical supervision process.