Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

This is a full time post for a Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Band 7) to join the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (WFT-P) for 11 months. The WFT-P is a highly specialist service offering psychological therapy to families during pregnancy and with babies, toddlers and children up to the age of 5 years. The team comprises of Clinical Psychology, Child and Educational Psychology, Systemic Family Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy and Psychiatry. The team is set up to work with families who might fall through the gaps in other services and/or have a complex relationship to help. The WFT-P is co-located within Camden Children Centre Services and is designed to work closely with other early years professionals including Family Support, Social Work and Health Visiting.

Main duties of the job

The WFT-P specialises in working with families facing complex difficulties, who may be working with several professionals and may struggle to access community services. We provide specialist interventions for families where there are issues related to complex trauma and attachment. In addition to offering direct interventions, the WFT-P offers a large amount of consultation and risk support (under the thrive model) to other professionals working with children, young people and their families. The post will involve offering consultation, assessment and intervention to families referred to the service.

About us

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Tavistock and Portman is caring, compassionate and committed to co-creating the care and training we offer. We are passionate about the quality of our work and committed to openness, the use of evidence and the application of improvement science. We value all our staff, are concerned for their wellbeing, and seek to foster leadership, innovation and excellence in our workforce. We embrace diversity in our workforce and work to make our services and training as accessible as possible.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
• Registration with HCPC or relevant body as a Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist.

Experience

• Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
• A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
• Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
• Expertise of managing and treating the client group
• Some experience of clinical supervision
• Some experience of clinical management of staff
• Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement

Skills

• High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
• Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
• Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
• Ability to manage own clinical case load

Knowledge

• Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
• Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

11 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

260-TP-867-A

Job locations

Whole Family Team & Perinatal Specialism