Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist

at  Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

To deliver and supervise highly specialist cognitive-behavioural interventions for people diagnosed with psychosis, with a current persecutory delusion. Training in the intervention will be provided. With training and expert supervision, to develop and use specialist skills at assessing and formulating persecutory delusions in the context of psychosis. To form excellent relationships with clinical teams in order to support recruitment of patients into the trial and provide co-ordinated care for patients receiving the intervention.
Responsibility for the organisation, day-to-day management, and running of one site of a large randomised controlled trial with patients with psychosis and persecutory delusions. It will be particularly important to meet recruitment targets, ensure a high retention rate in the trial, and a high uptake of the Feeling Safer treatment. To supervise other staff in the delivery of the treatment, ensuring high rates of engagement and fidelity to the protocol. To supervise the research assistants working on the trial, ensuring recruitment targets are achieved, assessments are completed, and blinding of research assessors is maintained.
To provide regular reports on the progress of the study. This will include providing information required by the funder. Attendance at supervision will be expected, and at appropriate research team meetings, including at the lead site, Oxford. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying

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