Clinical/ Counselling/ Forensic Psychologist - North ICMHT Team inBodmin inBodmin PUBLISHED
MON 4 NOV 2024
Responsibilities include conducting assessments, formulating treatment plans, delivering individual and group interventions, and providing consultation within a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will enhance psychological practices and contribute to service quality while benefiting from professional development opportunities in various therapeutic approaches. The position also calls for collaboration on a new model of integrated mental health services linking Community Mental Health Teams and Primary Care Networks.
Are you a passionate, reflective and committed practitioner psychologist, dedicated to the application of empirical research to psychological practice?
Would like to be part of the exciting and innovative transformation of community mental health services?
Can you embrace the challenges of working in a dynamic and diverse team that mirrors the population it serves?
Are you interested bringing your experience and creativity to a community-based psychologist role?
We are committed to developing our Clinical/Counselling/Forensic psychologists. Our posts are available at Band 7 (a developmental post) or 8A depending on experience. Relevant support and experience will be provided to ensure that successful newly qualified applicants will be able to transition into an 8A psychology post, after demonstrating significant post-qualifying experience and meeting the requirements.
Please note that, whilst working patterns will be flexible and include some remote working, there will be a requirement for the successful applicants to be physically based within team bases in Cornwall for most of the week.
If you are applying from out of county, there may be an option to work fully remotely for an initial period to allow you the time to organise relocation to this beautiful part of the world. A relocation package is available for discussion.
The Clinical/Counselling/Forensic psychologist sits alongside other practitioner psychologists, psychological therapists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAPs) and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs) embedded in an experienced, compassionate, trauma informed and person-centred multidisciplinary team which welcomes psychological interventions and collaborative working.
The role is a varied one providing assessment (including neurodevelopmental), formulation, individual and group interventions, and consultation using a range of therapeutic approaches.
The post holder will also support psychological practice within the team by contributing a psychological perspective to team working, treatment planning and supervising other psychological professionals.
There is a key focus on quality to enhance services. We encourage our psychologists to develop their skills and knowledge with CPD opportunities and have a track record of being able to provide ongoing training in CAT, CBT-P, DBT, EMDR, and FIP.
There will be opportunities to contribute to the development of a new model of integrated primary and community mental health services linking Community Mental Health Teams and Primary Care Networks.
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