Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Clinicians are supported to develop a wide range of skills beyond the direct clinical role. This may include service redesign and quality improvement, evaluation, and audit with the aim of contributing to the services quality and safety monitoring and developing clinical leadership skills. Contribution to service wide projects is planned as part of competency acquisition and may include future projects such as service user collaboration. To facilitate our work, psychologists in the service are supported with a clear structure of clinical supervision, adapted to clinical interest and personal development plans.
Supervision is provided individually and through specialist model supervision groups with expert supervisors (for example EMDR and systemic models). The service has links with the regional doctorate programmes and competency development will include supervisor training and the supervision of doctorate trainees. Supervision of other psychologists within the service will be part of your role as will be contributions to the Practice Update programme with the dissemination of information of training, conferences, or Trust events that you have attended or presentations on special interests that you may have The post holder will work autonomously within British Psychological Society and NHS Trust professional guidelines. Applicants, if not already an HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, must be undertaking a qualification making them eligible to be registered with the Health & Care Professions Council.
Applicants must have completed or be about to complete a Doctoral level Postgraduate training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or hold a BPS Statement of Equivalence. Applicants with a doctorate in Health Psychology will be considered if they can demonstrate comparable clinical experience, skills and competencies that are acquired in the clinical element of Clinical or Counselling Psychology doctorates. This is an essential requirement. The geographical base is Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington, but post holders will be required to work across the Trust-wide footprint of Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Post-holders will therefore be expected to work routinely across the main sites in the Trust and undertake such travel as part of the job

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