Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - Adult Community inBraintree inBraintree PUBLISHED
FRI 6 DEC 2024
The role involves working within multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) to provide psychological interventions to clients with complex and severe mental health needs, contributing to treatment planning and the management of specialist programs. Candidates must possess strong assessment and intervention skills, experience in handling high-risk situations, and the ability to build collaborative relationships with a diverse team of professionals. Experience with clients experiencing severe emotional dysregulation and trauma is essential. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a supportive environment alongside experienced psychology and psychotherapy colleagues.
We have a 0.60 WTE vacancy for a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. The position is part of adult community psychological services in Mid Essex. We welcome newly qualified applicants who can be initially appointed at a band 7 with preceptorship to 8A in due course.
We are looking for someone interested in developing expertise in specific psychological interventions aimed at reducing risk and addressing emotional dysregulation, preferably Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or Schema Therapy.
This vacancy comes with funded training opportunities, available after 6 months successful probation, to be utilized within 3 years of appointment. Due to this offer we have an expectation that successful candidates will hopefully make a commitment to stay in post for a minimum of 3 years after appointment. The training chosen needs to match the needs of the service and be agreed with the service manager.
ACP are integrated within MDTs covering a broad geographical area, with bases in Chelmsford and Braintree. You will be working alongside a variety of professionals from different backgrounds. We focus on providing a variety of psychological interventions to service users with highly complex and severe presentations who are also under the care of community teams. The post-holder will be expected to become proficient in the delivery of one or more specialist evidence based psychological interventions (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or Schema Therapy) and contribute to the management and running of these programmes. We are looking for someone skilled in multi-disciplinary treatment planning, who can form the premises of respectful and collegial relationships with members of various disciplines and rise to the challenges posed by working in large teams and across services.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within supportive MDTs and highly experienced clinical/counselling psychology and psychotherapy colleagues. We are looking for someone competent and experienced in delivering psychological assessments and interventions who is capable of assessing and managing clients and situations at high risk. Experience of offering consultations and developing clinical formulations is essential. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate experience with clients who experience severe emotional dysregulation and distress, often with a history of trauma and problematic issues.
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