Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job description

Job summary

We're looking for an experienced psychological therapist to join our Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team (ADTT) within Berkshire CAMHS. This part-time role combines direct clinical work with young people and their families, holding a small clinical caseload, alongside providing consultation and supervision to colleagues and associated professionals within the team.

What You'll Do:

• Provide expert psychological therapy to children and young people with complex mental health presentations.
• Offer clinical leadership, consultation, and supervision within the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, to enhance the quality of interventions.
• Develop and oversee intensive risk management plans, supporting young people who require multi-agency involvement.
• Contribute to and lead service development initiatives, ensuring our approach aligns with the latest research, national policy, and best practices.
• Travel across Berkshire as needed to meet the diverse needs of our service users.
• Work four days per week, with flexibility in choosing your set working days.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a specialist, supportive and compassionate team dedicated to transforming young lives.
• Play a key role in shaping service delivery and innovation within CAMHS.
• Access ongoing training, development, and career progression opportunities.

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the delivery of psychological therapy within ADTT, providing expert professional leadership and advice relating to the delivery of psychological therapy for complex presentations requiring multiple interventions, complex or intensive risk management plans and high levels of multi-agency working in order to ensure and develop consistently high quality, safe and cost-effective services for users, working in partnership with key stakeholders internal and external to the Trust.

As we develop our online offer, undertake a role in moderating service user activity on the Trust Support, Hope, Recovery On-Line Network (SHaRON) and participate in online discussions and care delivery via this modality.

Responsible for expert psychological assessment, case formulation, risk assessment and treatment for a designated number of patients presenting with complex mental health difficulties.

To support the development and implementation of frameworks and strategies that improve clinical practice, governance, education, learning, performance, management and quality in the service and across the Trust.

To support the further development and maintenance of support services delivered by the team, including but not exclusive to, the advice and consultation function, CYPF digital services including Young SHaRON and the online resource.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust site

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

1. Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical psychology (or equivalent).
2. Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) or UKCP/BPC.
3. Evidence of post-doctoral specialist training to accreditable level in at least 2 areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post.
4. Leadership experience and a successful track record in leading service delivery and contributing to service transformation.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and Other Ethnic Groups.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don't hesitate to contact Dr Jo Cocksey, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on 0786 678 7757 or Mel Jarvis Service Manager on 0779 536 6676 who will be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.