Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Shrewsbury Central East Community Mental Health Team welcomes applications from Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to work on a part time basis 15 hours per week

In the role you will provide a specialist Clinical Psychology service within the Shrewsbury Central East CMHT. You will work with clients remotely or face-to-face alone, in local NHS settings or other care environments, or at their home as necessary. Within this you will need to be able to communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. In so doing you will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and professional ethics and standards. You will be accountable for both professional and clinical actions.

As a senior clinician, you will develop a field of expertise that is a basis for providing advice to the service within which you work and will contribute to service and project development across the wider Trust area. This to include leading or contributing to training, supervision and governance aspects of the specific models of service delivery.

You will be supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by more junior psychologists within CMHS and providing peer supervisory support to colleagues as appropriate.

Travelling as required within Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, providing clinical services directly face to face and remotely.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, interpreting complex data and giving feedback effectively and with sensitively. To be skilled in risk assessment and management. These demands will incorporate frequent intense concentration often in emotionally demanding or unpredictable environments. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times.
• To provide expert psychological assessment and reports, both written and verbal, to referrers of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics

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