Senior High Intensity Therapist/Modality Practitioner /Lead Counsellor

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or post graduate training in another core mental health profession (nursing, Occupational therapy)
• Professional registration with the appropriate Health and Care Professions Council, if applicable to core professional training
• Qualification in PCE-CfD or other modalities offered in NHS Talking Therapies and accredited by BACP or UKCP.
• You must have PCE-CfD or DIT supervision qualification accredited by BACP or UKCP.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited by the BACP or UKCP

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care 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 the threat of physical abuse
• Specialist training/experience of PCE-CfD or other modalities demonstrated through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychological therapist or practitioner psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology and psychological therapies.
• Experience of working within a Talking Therapies service and delivering to agreed service targets (e.g. clinical contact hours, percentage recovery)
• Experience of supervising PCE-CfD or other modalities in NHS Talking Therapies

Desirable

• Experience of the application of CBT in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with two distinct psychological therapies including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
• Experience of supervising both low intensity and high intensity workers within a Talking Therapies service.

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of 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 non-professional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BACP or relevant professional body.
• Formal training in supervision of other clinical staff.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities or long-term physical health conditions etc).
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

Essential

• 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