Job summary
We are seeking a Counselling/Clinical Psychologist or CBT Therapist to work in our Adult Community Mental Health Services. It is an exciting time to join the mental health services in this area. We are developing new ways of working as we move further towards a truly trauma-informed culture and shape new psychologically-informed intervention offers alongside our partners in primary care and the voluntary sector.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide specialist evidence-based assessment, formulation and intervention for people with a range of complex mental health needs, including individual, couple/family and group interventions. They will possess an enthusiasm for and experience of working in a mental health MDT and demonstrate the skills to help steer the team to psychological understanding of their clients and the development of psychologically informed services. The team values the role of psychological therapists highly and, as such, the role is multifaceted and includes consultation and teaching roles, as well as active involvement in quality improvement projects, staff support initiatives and wider Trust initiatives.
We are therefore looking for someone with good knowledge and skills within these domains, and someone who is ready to join an innovative and efficient service as we move into transformation of services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.
About us
You will be co-located with your team and with the other Psychologists and therapists who work within the area and will be working with primary and secondary care colleagues.
As a member of the Bedfordshire and Luton psychological therapies staff group the post holder would join the regular psychology meetings which focus on Clinical Governance and peer-led Continual Professional Development (CPD).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) and HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist. Or Postgraduate level training in CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder and with accreditation as a practitioner/therapist with the relevant accrediting body (BABCP).
Desirable
- Further training or qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder.
- Experience in working in mental health multidisciplinary settings and representing a psychological perspective in these teams and services.
- Clinical experience of working with people with serious mental illness presentations.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychological interventions in different cultural contexts.
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services
- Experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
- Competence in use of IT equipment and software packages for the purposes of clinical record keeping, electronic communication, creating organisational documentation, data entry and analysis, research, and multimedia presenting and teaching.
- Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS.
- Able to draw upon a theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts and situations, requiring sustained and intense concentration, to arrive at appropriate formulation and compare and select from a range of treatment options.
- An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others' clinical caseload.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to use skills and knowledge to design and implement service evaluations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalence and able to demonstrate eligibility for BPS CPsychol (Chartered Psychologist) and HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist. Or Postgraduate level training in CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder and with accreditation as a practitioner/therapist with the relevant accrediting body (BABCP).
Desirable
- Further training or qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of delivering CBT for Psychosis or Personality Disorder.
- Experience in working in mental health multidisciplinary settings and representing a psychological perspective in these teams and services.
- Clinical experience of working with people with serious mental illness presentations.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the treat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychological interventions in different cultural contexts.
- Experience in contributing to service development, redesign and improvements in secondary mental health services
- Experience of providing teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Aware of the potential impact of discrimination & disadvantage on mental health.
- Competence in use of IT equipment and software packages for the purposes of clinical record keeping, electronic communication, creating organisational documentation, data entry and analysis, research, and multimedia presenting and teaching.
- Able to communicate at a high level verbally and in writing highly complex, technical and sensitive information to clients, families, carers, and a range of professionals and lay people within and outside the NHS.
- Able to draw upon a theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts and situations, requiring sustained and intense concentration, to arrive at appropriate formulation and compare and select from a range of treatment options.
- An in depth knowledge and skills in applying clinical risk assessment and management in own and others' clinical caseload.
- Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to use skills and knowledge to design and implement service evaluations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
