Clinical/counselling Psychologist

We are looking for a Clinical Psychologists/ Counselling Psychologist with experience of working with adults with a range of mental health difficulties to join our dedicated and supportive Primary Care Mental Health Service in Kingston. You will be part of a well-established, successful service providing assessment and psychological interventions in primary care settings.

The service aim is to provide specialist support to primary care so that more people with complex mental health problems, including co-morbidities, can be managed in primary care, rather than being seen in secondary care services. This would include working with people who are difficult for primary care teams to manage, but do not meet thresholds for or find it difficult to access specialist, secondary care mental health services and who are not appropriate for IAPT services.

The post-holder will work at Kingston Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT, a service providing mental health support to Kingston GP Practices). The post-holder will provide psychological assessment, treatment and offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to referrers, non-psychological colleagues and other, non-professional carers. You will act as coordinator of the service to designated GP practices and supervise designated staff in a sector of the service.

The post holder will help lead the implementation of primary care group interventions for people with personality disorder. You will be delivering the STEPPS intervention and Group Clinical interventions for people with Borderline Personality Disorder within Primary Care. You will also offer supervision to Apprentice Associate Psychologist and advice, consultation and training to other clinical colleagues as well as having the opportunity to contribute towards shaping and developing our service in partnership with our service users.

The post holder will be enthusiastic, committed and skilled clinicians who can work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide a range of clinical services and have experience of working with service users with complex mental health and behavioural needs; additionally to be familiar with the needs of a diverse BAME community.

At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.

**We have 3 key priorities which are**:

- Early and Effective Intervention,
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation

The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:

- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected

By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the Job Description attached.