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Job Title: Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our senior management team at the Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in managing and delivering our specialist Trauma Service, supporting individuals with PTSD and C-PTSD.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide clinical leadership and contribute to the delivery of evidence-based treatment within the Service by offering specialist assessment, formulation, and treatment for individuals experiencing PTSD or C-PTSD following traumatic events.
  • Play a key role in the clinical management of the service, overseeing waiting lists, staff capacity, and the management and development of specific treatment pathways.
  • Contribute to the clinical supervision and line management of qualified psychologists and psychological therapists.
  • Offer consultation on complexity and risk management to junior team members.
  • Help develop and provide training on working with PTSD and C-PTSD to other NHS services and mental health professionals.
  • Work autonomously within professional guidelines and participate in relevant research activities for audit and service evaluation.

About Us:

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. We are committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you will be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Benefits:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
  • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell.
  • Generous NHS pension scheme.
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
  • Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles.
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment, and armed forces community to support equality.
  • Generous maternity, paternity, adoption, and special leave.
  • Free parking across Trust sites.

Requirements:

  • Postgraduate doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the BPS (British Psychological Society).
  • Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
  • Additional accreditations (or working towards these) to reflect post-qualification specialist training (BABCP, UKCP, BPS).
  • Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision.

Continuous Professional Development:

  • Evidence of substantial post-doctoral training, experience, and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches in the assessment and treatment of PTSD/C-PTSD.
  • Evidence of post-qualification or specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post and clinical supervision.
  • Clinical supervision training for psychological therapy trainees and qualified staff.

Previous Experience:

  • Significant experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist, including demonstrable post-qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the treatment of PTSD/C-PTSD.
  • Significant experience of working in evidence-based ways with traumatised people including those with PTSD/C-PTSD.
  • Significant experience of working with service users (and their carers/families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
  • Experience of dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances, such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics.
  • Experience of providing professional/clinical supervision and line-management to qualified members of staff.
  • Experience of teaching and experience of developing and leading the delivery of training programmes.
  • Experience of leading service evaluation and implementing change from a national and local health or social care change agenda that impacts across services and professions.
  • Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism, and equality of access to services.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Detailed and advanced knowledge of assessment and a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions for PTSD/C-PTSD.
  • Experience of other models of trauma-focussed therapy including EMDR, NET, and/or compassion-focussed therapy.
  • Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues.
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and highly effective communication skills with the ability to support, engage, and lead patients, clinicians, and other stakeholder groups in change, development, and improvement.
  • Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office/Teams, and the internet).

Additional Requirements:

  • Demonstrates the ability to respond to people's needs sensitively, particularly with reference to all aspects of diversity.
  • Able to work flexibly as required, to work in-person from base and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.