Clinical/ Counselling/ Applied Psychologist inBasingstoke inBasingstoke PUBLISHED
FRI 20 SEP 2024
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust rxWZlPBn
The role requires the ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines and contribute to service development through research and audits. The psychologist will offer expert advice on psychological care to other professionals and non-professional carers while being supervised by a senior psychologist. The position covers Basingstoke, Andover, and Winchester, with opportunities to engage in ongoing training and links to Southampton University. The organisation supports flexible working arrangements, welcoming discussions during the interview process.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical/Counselling/Applied Psychologist to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. Applications are invited for a full time Band 8a post. Applications will also be considered for a Band 7 with the offer of preceptorship to Band 8a.
The EIP service is a specialised team who offer support to people presenting with their first episode of psychosis and contributing difficulties such as trauma, substances, anxiety, low mood etc. We are committed to delivering high quality, evidence-based interventions including CBTp and family work. The post holder will join a multidisciplinary team (MDT) and provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy individually and through group programmes to service users. They will also offer clinical supervision to other psychological therapists in the team. They will be supervised and managed by a senior psychologist and will be based in the Mid & North EIP Team, covering Basingstoke, Andover, and Winchester areas.
We are keen to help our staff progress and gain a broad range of experiences and therefore once embedded in the post additional training would be considered. The post holder will be part of the wider North Area Psychological Therapies team with links to Southampton University, including the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. As a department, we offer a range of psychologically focused therapies. Opportunities for research and development within the post will be encouraged.
This role will provide a principal psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering expert advice on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; to work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures; to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research within the area served by the team/service.
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Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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