Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT or Creative Therapist
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Job summary
Havant CMHT
We are keen to recruit a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychological Therapist/Creative Therapist who has experience of working in a community mental health team. There will be an expectation of some travel between bases in the South East Hampshire and across the care pathways.
The role offers exciting opportunities for direct clinical work, service development and multi-disciplinary team working. You will provide evidence-based psychological interventions to people experiencing a range of complex mental health issues, both individually and in groups. Furthermore, you will be contributing to psychologically-informed care by providing consultation, training and supervision within the team and also leadership of a clinical care pathway.
Within the service, we offer a range of interventions, including CBT,DBT,CAT,ACT,CFT and EMDR and creative therapies.
Applicants should be qualified in a core profession, and/or hold accrue dictation with an appropriate psychotherapy/creative therapy organisation. The post could be considered as a preceptorship opportunity to the right applicant wishing to develop from a band 7 into 8a role.
For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Dr Sara Clark (Lead Clinical Psychologist in Community Adult Mental Health) on 07824 865569
Main duties of the job
*To provide a highly specialist clinical/counselling/ psychological therapy service to adults with severe and enduring mental health problems in the South East Area CMHTs.
In particular:
To be responsible for the systematic provision of highly specialist psychology services to adults with complex, severe and enduring mental health problems in South East Area CMHTs.
To undertake high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions taking substantial professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement in own professional practice.
To ensure the clinical effectiveness of own practice and of service functioning by undertaking audit, research and development activities relevant to the service area.
To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainee clinical/counselling psychologists or other trainees within your qualified Psychological approach.
To supervise and support the psychological therapy provided by other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To facilitate the psychological therapy group programme.
About us
Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!
Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.
Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.
Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:
- Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
- We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
- We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.
Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.
Details
Date posted
21 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£50,952 to £57,349 a year salary is based on full time hours
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
348-PSE-3112
Job locations
The Parkway Centre - Havant
51 Leigh Road
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 2BF
Employer details
Employer name
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Parkway Centre - Havant
51 Leigh Road
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 2BF
Employer's website
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