Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a job based in Wandsworth for a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work 37.5 hours per week ((including weekday evenings and weekends).
The pay rate for this locum Clinical/Counselling Psychologist job is £34 per hour (Assignment rate) and is a 1-month contract.
Shift Patterns:
- 08:00 am – 16:00 pm
- 12:00 pm – 20:00 pm
- Will include week-day evenings and occasional weekends
Duties:
- Provide specialist psychology services to patients referred to Talk Wandsworth
- The provision of specialist psychological assessments and therapy at Step 3 as well as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to other members of the Talk Wandsworth team
- Operate within recognised professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s operational policy and guidelines
- Work flexible hours
- Work clinically within primary care settings, including dedicated areas of project work in the Wandsworth community - for example work within the BME community, older adults etc
- Develop and manage the service within the service hubs, surgeries or any other locations to which s/he is attached
- Deliver an average of 22 booked and 20 completed clinical contacts per week
- Provide highly specialist Step 3 clinical assessments based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources
- Client self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews
- Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions (employed individually or in synthesis), maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of treatment efficacy. and which rely primarily upon CBT models
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals in order to support accurate diagnosis and formulation as well as the development of a sound treatment plan
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients in line with the service’s risk management policy, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of treatment
- Receive regular clinical and professional supervision at least monthly from a more senior clinical / counselling psychologist or CBT therapist
- Provide, as required, regular clinical supervision to graduate mental health workers, psychological wellbeing practitioners, and other low intensity workers within the team
Requirements of the Clinical/Counselling Psychologist:
- Be knowledgeable about DSM-V diagnosis of common mental health problems (as relevant to IAPT) and skilled in the differential diagnosis of clinical disorders
- Be able to clinically formulate clients’ problems and develop and implement plans for the formal Step 3 treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
- A good understanding and ability to apply CBT treatment strategies flexibly across the whole range of disorders seen in IAPT (particularly depression, anxiety disorders and bulimic eating disorders)
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, and HPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist under the relevant domain
- BABCP Accreditation as CBT practitioner
- Formal training in CBT such as a Post graduate Diploma/Masters in CBT
- Training in the supervision of Step 2 clinicians (GMHWs and PWPs)
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following – psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy and registration with the appropriate body for that profession
- Training in EMDR, IPT, DIT
- Proof of qualifications and professional registration if relevant
- Post-qualification experience of working in primary care settings
- Experience in establishing DSM-V diagnoses and in clinical formulation
- Experience of meeting agreed/specified service targets
- Experience of assessment and treatment of people with common mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity, using evidence based psychological therapies, particularly CBT
- Experience in running Step 3 therapy groups
- Experience with routine outcome data collection and monitoring
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of using IAPTus
- Psychological assessment skills and skills in DSM-V-based diagnostic assessment
- Advanced practitioner skills in cogntive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Knowledge of the academic literature concerning common mental disorders and their treatment within an IAPT service
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention which require sustained and intense concentration
- Skills in providing teaching and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups working in primary care
- Skills in the assessment and evaluation of clinical risk
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC or BABCP
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently, and to manage a high clinical caseload in a safe and effective manner
- Ability to employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, and to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and to challenging behaviour
- Ability to work creatively, cooperatively, reliably and consistently both independently and within the IAPT team setting
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Daily payroll
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive psychology knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support
- In house payroll system
- Revalidation
- Industry leading shift booking system
- Nationwide coverage including the Channel islands
Contact:
This Clinical/Counselling Psychologist job is advertised by Dan Potts; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
