Job summary
- Main area
- CMHT Slough
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS311-C
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Horizons
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £60,983 - £70,536 per annum (Incl. HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 8b
Job overview
Are you an experienced clinical or counselling psychologist? Do you want to enhance your skills and gain invaluable experience in both primary and secondary mental health services? If so, we have an opportunity that places you at the heart of the Community Mental Health Team in Slough and across Berkshire, where you will have the chance to make a meaningful impact. The role is perfect for passionate and dynamic professionals looking to progress in their careers and contribute to service development on both a local and trust-wide scale.
As a key member of our team, you will be working 22.5 hours per week within the Community Mental Health Team. Your responsibilities will include supervising and managing staff, while providing your expert knowledge to a broader multidisciplinary community mental health team.
Join us in this exciting journey, where exceptional opportunities for career and skills development await. If you are driven to make a difference and eager to advance in your profession, we welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
1. You will work as a valued member of the Slough Mental Health Team, as well as the trust Psychological Therapies wider team, and you will provide a
highly specialist psychological service to users presenting with
severe/complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions,
complex/intensive risk management plans and high levels of multiagency
work.
2. You will initiate, lead, supervise, and contribute to the multidisciplinary
teams within the locality and wider Trust services.
3. You will contribute to the Trust’s Community Mental Health Transformation initiative aimed at bridging the gap between primary and secondary care,
which includes working closely with GPs and primary care colleagues.
4. You will be reliable and knowledgeable, and you will have great IT skills and be familiar with various systems and software packages.
5. You will need access to your own car and be able to travel independently
across Berkshire.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re 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’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- 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
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 3/4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
1. A doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology and
Registered Practitioner Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with the
Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC).
2. Clinical supervision training for psychological therapy trainees and
qualified staff
3. Significant experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling
psychologist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at
a highly specialist level in the related specialisms.
4. An enhanced DBS check.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the BPS (British Psychological Society).
- Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC)
- Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision.
- Additional accreditations (or working towards these) to reflect to post qualification specialist training (e.g., BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BPS).
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of substantial post-doctoral training, experience and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches with an evidence base within the area of specialism. Or Evidence of post qualification or specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological/psychotherapy practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post and clinical supervision.
- Clinical supervision training for psychological therapy trainees and qualified staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in the related specialisms.
- Significant experience of working in evidence-based ways 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 teaching and professional/clinical supervision, as well as experience of developing and leading the delivery of training programmes and supervision.
- Experience of 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
Essential criteria
- 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.
- Detailed and advanced knowledge of a range of evidence-based assessments and therapeutic interventions within designated clinical area.
- 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.
Additional requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the ability to respond to people’s needs sensitively, particularly with reference to all aspects of diversity.
- Able to work flexibly as required and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Berthollier
- Job title
- Consultant Counselling Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01753 690950
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