# Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Woolwich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two experienced clinical psychologists with substantial experience of working in adult mental health settings to work in our community psychosis pathway.

You will lead on the delivery of psychological interventions for people with a diagnosis of psychosis or bipolar disorder, including groups, family and systemic interventions, and cognitive-behavioural therapy.

You will work closely with psychologists and psychological therapists in a supportive and innovative team, as well as psychology professionals in the family consultation, community rehabilitation, and autism services.

You will have regular supervision and access to trust-wide professional networks. There are possible opportunities to develop our links with local children and young people's services and voluntary community and social enterprise organisations.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide a psychology service to clients of the Community Psychosis Pathway.

- Be experienced in a range of clinical skills with clients with complex mental health issues, including group work, psychological assessments, family interventions, individual therapy, consultation, research and audit.

- Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy with individuals, families and groups, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

**Benefits**

- Permanent contract

- Full-time working pattern

- Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year pa inc

**Person Specification**

- Registration and qualifications: HCPC registered or equivalent

- Experience: Experience of psychological therapies in secondary care adult mental health, experience of providing supervision, experience of NICE concordant interventions for people with psychosis, experience of running groups, experience of working with families

- Desirable: Completion of post qualification training in CBTp or FIP, further training in supervision, leadership or research

## Skills

### Required
- clinical psychology
- counselling psychology
- psychological interventions
- cognitive-behavioural therapy
- group work
- family interventions
- individual therapy
- consultation
- research
- audit

### Nice to have
- CBTp
- FIP
- supervision
- leadership
- published research
- service evaluation

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