Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Assertive Outreach

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of referred clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental healthproblems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting andrefining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number ofprovisional hypotheses.
• Contribute to the triage of referrals to the AOT and consider the appropriate level of treatment.

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, as accredited by the British Psychological Society, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Qualifications / training in clinical supervision
• Eligible for BABCP accreditation

Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional and accrediting bodies.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
• 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 identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.
• Excellent IT and keyboard skills.

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a 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 of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and threat of physical abuse
• Experience of supervising others.

Desirable

• Experience of running / co-running groups
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties
• Experience of working in the NHS

Essential

• An interest in and positive approach towards working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties.
• Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings

Desirable

• Willingness to work flexibly
• An awareness of own strengths and limitations