Senior Locality Clinician Reading - Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Description
To provide a qualified specialist assessment and therapy service to adults as part of the Talking Therapies service.To take a senior, lead role and provide advice and consultation on clients' psychological care working within the policies, procedures, and protocols for the service.
To manage and lead a team which will focus on service delivery of the Talking Therapies programme.Full time and Part Time hours considered.
To lead, develop, monitor and evaluate new or existing areas of service delivery, care and treatment and to be involved in the implementation of various interventions.
To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
To develop skills in the areas of training and supervision, providing clinical supervision to other qualified clinicians, and supervision of other team members' work, as appropriate.
To provide a specialist assessment and therapy service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and in direct structured observations as well as interviews with clients.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment of client's problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy according to N.I.C.E.
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.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
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
Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
Free parking across Trust sites
The "must haves" for this role:
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology /counselling or health psychology
Or
Qualification in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to post graduate diploma level.
AND Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. RMN, Social Worker or equivalent.
AND British Association of Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy accreditation.
Or
Professional qualification in health or social care, e.g. Counselling Psychologist/ RMN/ Social Worker or equivalent
AND
Recognised Accredited Qualification in Counselling (CFD)/ IPT/ DIT.
A minimum of 2 years post qualification experience of specialist therapy assessment and treatment of clients in Adult Mental Health
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
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.
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