Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Bracknell

Salary

£79,504 – £91,609

Training post

Trust type

Foundation

Posted

2 weeks ago

About the role

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who wants to make a real difference to the wellbeing of our NHS workforce? Do you have experience and expertise in staff support and are you committed to providing effective, accessible and responsive psychologically informed services? If you are ready to lead at scale this post might be for you. This Consultant role provides clinical, operational and strategic leadership for Wellbeing Matters, the Trust's staff psychological support service. You will lead a small team and work closely with other clinical leads, teams and managers, as well as Organisational Development, HR, Patient Safety and senior leaders, to shape an inclusive, evidence-based offer that supports staff wellbeing, psychological safety and organisational resilience. This is a high-impact leadership role combining clinical expertise, strategic working and service development with operational management and clinical delivery. You will influence Trust-wide policy and culture, respond to complex workforce challenges, and play a key role in organisational developments and incident responses. The role supports your ongoing development in clinical leadership and change management, while enabling you to apply your expertise in supervision, consultation, training and governance. On site working and Berkshire wide travel is required but reasonable adjustments are supported alongside hybrid working. Interviews are due to take place in person on Friday 22nd May.

Person specification

Essential

Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical/counselling psychology (or approved equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or overseas), which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) (Eligibility for) Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
Evidence of post-doctoral specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements for this post.
Evidence of substantial post-doctoral training, experience, and knowledge as a recognised expert in psychological models and approaches in the area of specialism.
Accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g. BABCP, UKCP, ACAT, BACP, BPS/ACT, EMDR-UK).
Clinical supervision training for doctorate psychology trainees (BPS Registered course) and other qualified clinicians
Professional leadership qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience
Training and/or proven ability in providing effective education, consultation and coaching to develop and support others.
Extensive experience working as a qualified (Principal) clinical/counselling psychologist in the relevant specialism.
Substantial experience of working in evidence-based ways with service users (and their carers and families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and threatening behaviour.
Extensive experience of managing highly complex situations concerning safeguarding, risk management, clinical governance, complaints and investigations.
Demonstrable experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
Extensive experience of leading services and teams with complex caseloads requiring the application of evidence-based psychological methods, assessments, formulation, and interventions.
Extensive experience of teaching and professional/clinical supervision as well as experience of developing training and supervisory models.
Substantial leadership experience and a successful record of accomplishment in leading service delivery and delivering service improvement.
Evidence of successfully holding responsibility for, delivering and being accountable for services that meet local and national targets
Experience of managing resources and line managing staff.
Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting less experienced clinicians and other colleagues.
High level and well-developed ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within the Trust and across the system.
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Teaching and group facilitation skills.
Exceptional and highly effective interpersonal communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development and improvement.
Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office and the internet)
Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Demonstrates the ability to respond to people's needs sensitively particularly regarding all aspects of diversity
Able to work flexibly as required (including on call where relevant) and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position with reasonable adjustments where needed.