Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Location: York
Type: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 per annum
Job Summary:
Sanctuary Personnel are seeking a dedicated Clinical Psychologist to join our client's team in York. As a key member of our Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), you will play a crucial role in the ongoing development of our service, providing clinical expertise and collaborating closely with colleagues across disciplines.
Our Client's Mission:
- Our aim is to help individuals feel better and recover faster by providing world-class specialist care. We are committed to safety, quality improvement, and patient-centered care.
Our Client's Purpose:
- We provide individualised specialist care tailored to each patient's unique needs, focusing on evidence-based treatments and collaboration with consultants to achieve the best outcomes.
Our Client's Objectives:
- Treat every patient as a partner in their care.
- Rigorously collect and analyse patient outcome and safety data.
- Innovate and develop services to improve patient outcomes.
- Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Foster a supportive work environment for colleagues.
Our Client's Values:
- Caring
- Accountable
- Collaborative
- Courageous
- Determined
Responsibilities:
Clinical:
- Lead the provision and advancement of psychological input, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and robust governance procedures.
- Collaborate with the unit Consultant Psychiatrist to monitor, review, and enhance psychological provision.
- Conduct specialist psychological assessments and formulate individualised treatment plans for new admissions.
- Manage a caseload, providing therapeutic interventions and evaluating their effectiveness.
- Facilitate psychological group sessions and contribute to the team's formulation and therapeutic skills development.
- Offer consultancy, supervision, and training to team members as needed.
- Participate in continuing professional development activities and annual appraisals.
- Provide leadership in fostering a therapeutic environment and actively engage in team supervision and development.
Support:
- Support the development of the team's formulation and therapeutic skills.
- Provide consultancy, supervision, and training to colleagues, including Assistant Psychologists and other members of the MDT.
- Deliver teaching and training sessions on psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, and other relevant topics.
Administrative:
- Maintain accurate records of client contacts and assessments in accordance with relevant policies and using appropriate systems.
- Prepare written reports on psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic progress, and outcomes for colleagues and referrers.
Requirements:
- Maintain eligibility for the register of Chartered Psychologists
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist
- Practical knowledge of using full range of psychological theory models to inform clinical work and consultation
- Understanding of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including developmental and attachment trauma
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems including high levels of risk to self
- Excellent skills in psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation
- Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes including report writing
- Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance with patients with complex difficulties related to relational trauma
- Demonstrates the ability to develop positive working alliances with multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to Formulate Complex processes
- Capacity to conduct psychometric assessment where needed
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients including those with diagnoses of PTSD and Personality Disorder
- Experience working with teams
- Self-motivated and self-starter with the ability to prioritise and schedule work independently
- Highly organised, detail-oriented and analytical
- Adaptable in terms of working times and responsibilities e.g., out of hours work may be required with due notice.
- Maintains a professional conduct at all times, remaining calm and in control.
- Be able to adapt to the ever changing environment and reacting quickly to meet challenges
If you're passionate about providing high-quality care and contributing to service development in a supportive environment, we encourage you to apply now through Sanctuary Personnel.
