Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - £67k-74k - Jersey

Job responsibilities

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to users, relatives, carers and all appropriate specialist services for people with learning disabilities in Jersey. This will involve providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and interventions to vulnerable adults over the age of 18 years who have a Learning Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Condition with complex / highly complex needs and presentations. To liaise with other specialist psychologists on island and provide psychology leadership within the learning disability service. To contribute to training and consultation which assists the development of high- quality services for people with learning disabilities with the key aim of enabling access for clients with a learning disability to mainstream services, health care, housing, employment and the criminal justice system.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical
• psychologist.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of
• client groups, across the whole life course
• and presenting with the full range of clinical
• severity across the full range of care
• settings including outpatient, community,
• primary care, in-patient and residential care
• settings, including 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 exercising full clinical
• responsibility for clients psychological care
• and treatment, within the context of a
• multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of representing psychology
• within the context of multi-disciplinary
• care/services.
• Experience of project management.
• Experience of teaching, training
• and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience with routine outcome
• monitoring.
• Experience of working within safeguarding
• guidance with vulnerable adults.

Desirable

• Experience of assessing
• and treating clients
• across the full range of
• care settings.
• Experience of the
• application of psychology
• in different cultural
• contexts.
• Experience of working
• with people who have a
• Learning Disability and /
• or Autism Spectrum
• Condition.
• Experience of managing
• staff and formal training
• in offering clinical
• supervision.

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical
• psychology, or equivalent, including
• specifically models of psychopathology,
• clinical psychometrics, and
• neuropsychology, two or more distinct
• psychological therapies and lifespan
• developmental psychology, as accredited
• by the BPS.
• Appropriate registration with the HCPC as a
• practitioner psychologist. Demonstrates advanced theoretical &
• practical knowledge of psychology and
• specialist area to inform assessment of
• clients.
• Deep understanding of working with
• common mental health issues, working
• with clients who have a learning disability
• and/or Autism Spectrum Condition, and co-
• morbid difficulties.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory
• and practice of working with people
• presenting with behaviour that challenges.
• Well-developed awareness of the roles of
• other services and other health and social
• care professions, and the interface with
• Psychological Therapy within a learning
• disability setting.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research
• design and methodology, as practiced
• within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the
• client group and mental health such as
• Capacity legislation and protocols.
• Understanding of the supervision of others
• in a professional and clinical capacity.
• Knowledge of how to carry out risk
• assessments within scope of practice.
• Familiarity with codes of practice of Health
• and Social Care Professions Council
• (HCPC).
• Good understanding of safeguarding.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in
• one or more additional
• specialised areas of
• psychological practice.
• Well-developed
• knowledge of the theory
• and practice of
• specialised psychological
• therapies in specific
• difficult to treat groups
• (e.g. personality disorder,
• dual diagnoses, people
• with additional disabilities
• etc).
• Knowledge of the theory
• and practice of highly
• specialised psychological
• therapies and
• assessment
• methodologies.
• Well-developed
• knowledge of the theory
• and practice of working
• with people with learning
• disabilities who have
• been abused, particularly
• with those who have
• experienced sexual
• abuse.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).