Clinical Psychologist

Overview

Exciting Opportunity Alert! We are on the hunt for a passionate Clinical Psychologist to join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact in our service. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and help others on their journey to wellness, we want to hear from you!

The post is responsible for the provision of specialist psychological input to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions. Psychological based provision is offered at the individual, group, couple and family level through to teams, systems and community level. The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessments, psychological formulations and delivery of psychological interventions to the communities we serve in Tower Hamlets.

This includes where suitable adapted therapies including Behavioural Activation for Muslim Communities (BA-M), Islamic Psychology and CBT-music with young black men as well a specific role in supporting the Disordered Eating pathway through community engagement and capacity building.

Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources (including psychological tests, measures/rating scales including Recovery measures and Quality of Life measures, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and involved others.)

Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems across a range of care settings, based upon a theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to design specialist programmes of treatment for individuals, groups and families tailored to individual need.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Please refer to attached Job description and person specification

We are offering two roles one in CIMHS North and one in CIMHS South in Newham

We welcome informal visits to the team and/or phone calls/emails to discuss the role

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (as accredited by the BPS).OR Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
• Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable criteria

• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees
• Additional training in community psychology models

Other

Desirable criteria

• Ability to travel independently across sites as required

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Providing specialist psychological assessment, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Planning and exercising clinical responsibility for service users’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• The application of psychologically informed interventions in different cultural contexts including working with interpreters.
• Ability to provide a culturally competent and non- stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health
• Postgraduate level knowledge of research methods

Desirable criteria

• Providing specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings and clinical severity including outpatient, community, primary care and…