Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

4 months ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

Oxford Health Trust are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly, skilled, and developing Urgent Care Pathway in Buckinghamshire, working clinically within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). The successful applicant will be based in Aylesbury but may be requested to support service users alongside the High Wycombe team.

The Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist will be expected to provide direct interventions including Assessment and Formulation and Brief Psychological Therapy, and Indirect Interventions supporting the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. There may be scope for the successful candidate to embark upon slightly longer courses of Intervention if that would more effectively prepare service users to access the next stage of their psychological therapy pathway.

The post will require you to work with service users directly face to face and support psychosocial intervention work of colleagues and as the Senior Psychologist you will be supporting service users in a crucial point in their lives. This is a rewarding and creative role, one which has the potential to have a significant positive impact on a person's life.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a high-quality service, supporting national guidance as well as meeting local and nationally agreed standards.

The post holder will demonstrate experience, skills, and qualifications in evidence-based approaches in specialist adult mental health settings, this may include for example CBT/ DBT / CFT/ Schema Therapy / EMDR / MBT / CAT and third wave approaches. The expectation will be to continue to embed a Trauma Informed care approach to the service implementation.

The post holder will provide psychological assessments/formulations and therapy interventions for adults with severe and/or complex mental health problems, their families, and carers. The post holder will provide supervision and management support to other psychological assistants and consultation and guidance to Urgent Care colleagues. The post holder will be responsible for providing Reflective Practise and supporting Complex Case Formulation meetings with the MDT. The post holder will have excellent communication skills and will participate in multidisciplinary risk assessment, formulation, and care planning.

The post holder will work with the Clinical & Professional Lead, Locality Leads, Team Managers and the CRHTT team to ensure that the Buckinghamshire Urgent Care Pathway achieves its key objectives of delivering integrated, safe, accessible, responsive, effective, and caring services to people in Buckinghamshire.

About us

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers Competitive pension scheme Lease car scheme Cycle to work scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mental Health First Aiders Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply) Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion tea Job description

Job responsibilities

The teams have regular reflective practice and supportive, open cultures. As a member of the team, you will work closely with colleagues in our CMHTs and in-patient teams and play an important role in developing the crisis psychology pathway within Buckinghamshire Mental Health Services.

You will join our established, friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary teams which are part of the wider Buckinghamshire Urgent Care Services. We provide a wide range of evidence-based and innovative psychological therapies. The post will be attractive to clinical or counselling psychologists with a track record in working with people with acute and/or complex mental health problems.

You will receive expert clinical supervision and will have access to a wide range of CPD activities. There are excellent opportunities for service development, service evaluation/research and teaching/training.

We look forward to receiving your application if you have skills in delivering therapy to this client group, evidence of significant knowledge in your specialist therapy area, sound clinical risk assessment and management skills, experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, experience and enthusiasm to work collaboratively with colleagues in the wider mental health system and a desire to play a positive and proactive role within the Urgent Care Pathway as a colleague and clinical supervisor and as part of the leadership team.

The post is based at The Whiteleaf Centre and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals in Aylesbury, both of which are easily accessible by road and public transport and within walking distance of the town centre.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health Knowledge of working with complex patients in time-limited therapies

Desirable

Knowledge of the theory and practice of different, specialised psychological therapies and how they are used for patients with severe and complex presentations

Qualifications

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 Accreditation with accrediting body such as BABCP, ACAT or SfDBT HCPC registration or BABCP accreditation

Desirable

Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity Experience of working with people with severe and/or complex mental health difficulties Experience of working in Mental Health services in an NHS setting working closely with others as part of a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts Experience of working as part of a leadership team Experience of line managing other staff

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