Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist inUxbridge inUxbridge PUBLISHED
FRI 25 OCT 2024
Key responsibilities include conducting assessments, formulating treatment plans, delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions (such as MI, DBT, and CBT), and supervising both qualified and trainee psychology staff. The role requires strong clinical skills, research and audit capabilities, and a commitment to service development. Although experience with addiction clients is beneficial, tailored training will be provided to equip the candidate for effective work with this population. Regular supervision and support will be available from senior team members and a Professional Lead for Addictions.
Band 8A Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
We are happy to consider interest from newly qualified applicants or those currently working as a Band 7 Psychologist who would be interested in a development post, working towards becoming an 8A psychologist.
We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative Practitioner Psychologist to join a friendly team in our Addictions service: ARCH (Addiction Recovery Community Hillingdon). This is a an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a practitioner psychologist who is enthusiastic about working in a multi-disciplinary setting, who is adaptable and enjoys variety and working independently as well as within a team context. You will have excellent clinical skills and ideally possess supervision experience. You work alongside a range of professionals including psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, experts by experience, criminal justice staff, recovery workers and group facilitators.
CNWL through its Addictions Directorate provides expert services to a variety of London Boroughs and beyond. Specifically in Hillingdon, the ARCH service is an NHS and third-sector partnership providing comprehensive health care for local people with drug, alcohol and other addictions.
A significant percentage of addiction clients also present with diagnoses of Trauma, Personality Disorder, and Complex Mood and Anxiety Disorders, and the team is expected to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions as recommended by NICE Guidance including MI, MBT, DBT, CFT, EMDR and CBT. Other modalities are used dependent on patient need and best practice. The successful applicant will be involved in the provision of therapy and supervise both qualified and trainee psychology staff.
About us
You will have assessment, formulation, therapy, and leadership and supervision skills; and you will have (and/or want to develop) experience, training and knowledge in working with Addictions and associated complex presentations. Although experience of working with people with addictions would be valuable, we recognise that not all applicants will have had this opportunity. Tailored induction and training will be provided to enable you to work effectively with this client group.
You will have good research and audit skills, be familiar with care quality and clinical governance and be expected to contribute to service development in this way.
You will be operationally responsible to the team manager and receive regular clinical supervision, support and reflective practice from your Professional Lead for Addictions, as well as peer support and guidance from other senior team members.
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