Registered (HCPC) Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Band 7 or 8a (dependent on experience) 0.6 WTE fixed term for 1 year

PICuP (Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis)

About the team:

We are looking to recruit a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team. The Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis (PICuP) is an award winning specialist psychology service hosted by the Croydon Operational Directorate, providing psychological interventions (within a broad cognitive-behavioural approach) for individuals who experience distressing psychotic experiences, as well as additional or secondary mental health difficulties, trauma, and interventions for carers. PICuP also provides specialist supervision and training to mental health professionals. It was founded by Professor Elizabeth Kuipers in 1999, is headed by Professor Emmanuelle Peters (Director), and operationally managed by Drs Nadine Keen and Majella Byrne (clinic co-ordinators).

Main duties of the job

About the role: We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical/counselling psychologist to join our team at Band 7 or 8a level (dependent on experience).

Key responsibilities include:

• To provide a highly specialist psychology service, cognitive behavioural therapy, trauma informed CBT, EMDR, and FIp to outpatients with ongoing distressing symptoms of psychosis, bipolar disorder and/or secondary emotional difficulties
• To provide specialist training in an area of expertise related to psychological interventions in psychosis
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, in CBT and/or FI for psychosis
• To provide specialist supervision and training to mental health professionals through close links with the Psychology Department at the IOPPN
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

About us

About the location:

PICuP is located at the Maudsley Hospital on Denmark Hill. The post-holder will be mostly based at the Maudsley but will be expected to see some clients at other SLaM team bases in Lambeth, Lewisham or Croydon as necessary. Some work may be conducted remotely where appropriate.

Benefits:There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated.Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leavepackage which is dependent on the role and length of service.

• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurant

We look forward to receiving your application.

Job description Job responsibilities

Job Purpose: To provide a highly specialist psychology service, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), trauma informed CBT (TF-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and familyintervention (FI), to outpatients with ongoingdistressing symptoms of psychosis, bipolar disorder and/or secondary emotional difficulties and trauma, involving specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring ofoutcomes. To provide specialist training in an area of expertise related to psychological interventions inpsychosis and related emotional problems in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SlaM), other NHS trusts, and nationally. To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, in CBT and/or FI for psychosis. To provide specialist supervision and training to mental health professionals through close linkswith the Psychology Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, theDoctorate in Clinical Psychology course, and Post-Graduate Diploma and Certificate in CBT forpsychosis courses. To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct,and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility forinterpreting policies within defined parameters. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are bestachieved. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds toflourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Doctorate level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.

Desirable

• Additional training and experience in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis either through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.

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