Job responsibilities

As part of our supportive psychology network, you'll benefit from:

• Regular clinical and professional supervision.
• Access to continuing professional development and specialist training.
• Opportunities to contribute to research, service evaluation and quality improvement.
• A welcoming multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding care.
• Flexible part-time working within a supportive service

If you're looking for a role where your expertise can make a genuine impact while maintaining an excellent work-life balance, we'd love to hear from you.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 working with considerable autonomy, and exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care, treatment and discharge.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. agreed by the Director of Psychology.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of analysing complex information from many sources in order to make decisions regarding appropriate treatment pans, frequently requiring sustains and intense concentration
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health

Qualifications

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Training in clinical supervision of doctoral trainee clinical psychologists.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• IT skills to use word processing, data entry, statistical packages and Powerpoint for presentations.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
• Formal IT training

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

personal qualities

Essential

• Responsible and sensitive to clients' needs, showing an ability to balance their needs with that of the service.
• Able to contain distressing and painful information providing clients with a feeling of security and a sense of being understood
• Able to contain and work with organisational stress such as difficult team dynamics.
• Able to make good decisions in times of crisis or when faced with highly distressed clients
• Shows awareness of one's personal limits and can discuss cases openly with supervisor, asking for help with faced with challenges
• Able to sustain intense periods of concentration to carry out complex assessments when faced with the young person, their family and significant others.
• Able to organise and plan own workload and that of trainee clinical psychologists.

Desirable

• Personal experience of mental health problem
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

other

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).