Core team 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive psychology service as an integrated part of the Core Team
• Provide triage and specialist psychological assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions particularly for people with complex emotional needs, including personality disorder and complex trauma
• Provide direct clinical input and supervision of individual, group or team brief interventions for complex emotional needs
• Assist GPs with diagnosis, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and self-help plans for service users with complex common mental health problems and stable severe mental health presentations who are being managed exclusively in primary car
• Work with Core Team colleagues to develop a collaborative care model for service users with complex physical and emotional difficulties, including those with complex emotional needs, Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and Long-Term Conditions (LTC
• Play a key role in implementing improved linkage and interface between Core and Intensive Teams

• Provide advice and support to network teams on the management of service users who have been stepped down from secondary care / intensive community mental health service
• Support primary care staff in their management and treatment of service users through case discussions, joint consultations and bespoke training.
• Maintain effective communication with GP, primary care staff, service users and their carers;
• Provide clinical input, where necessary, to multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex presentations being managed solely in primary care within the team and as part of the wider integrated health and care networks.
• Engage with local service user participation models.
• Work within the MDT promoting respect for all professional groups and focusing upon coherent and integrated teamwork.
• Provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment offered and undertaken with service users.
• Manage and supervise psychologists, clinical associates, assistants, apprentices and other staff as appropriate, including more junior clinical / counselling psychologists
• To offer teaching, training and undertake appropriate research, audits and service evaluations to support service delivery and development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in clinical/counselling psychology
• HCPC registration

Experience

• Experience of multi-model psychological assessment, formulation and intervention across levels of complexity and settings
• Experience of interventions for people with complex emotional needs - including personality disorder and complex trauma.
• Experience of providing supervision

• Experience of MDT working and consultation
• Extensive post-doctoral experience of working with complex mental health presentations

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of multi-theoretical psychological models (e.g. trauma-informed, DBT, CBT, SCM)

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

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington

NW1 0PE

https://www.candi.nhs.uk/careers