Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Do you want to work with young people and families and have transferable skills to work with complex mental health needs?
We at CAMHS Phoenix are looking for a very enthusiastic, compassionate and proactive individual for the role of Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist . The post holder will co-ordinate, lead and oversee, the systematic provision of a high quality, highly specialist integrated psychological therapies service to young people and their parents/carers accessing Tier 4 Hospital at Home/ Day Patient Mental Health services in Berkshire.
CAMHS Phoenix unit is a specialist provision day care service for Young People between the age 12-18 Years. The service provides co-ordinated, intensive, complex, multi modal interventions designed to facilitate the prevention, diagnosis, management, and evidence-based treatment of severe and enduring mental illness in young people. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team comprising of Consultant Psychiatrists, doctors, therapists, nursing and teaching staff. Members of the clinical team are at times exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours. The service provides a range of such therapeutic programmes in a local context which enables continuity of care through a step up, step-down model, and which seeks to provide alternatives to admission inpatient unit, and reduced length of stay in out of area facilities.
Provide a combination of direct service work and provision of consultation and supervision of professional colleagues within the clinical team, and across other sectors of care.
Provide service developments as required to ensure patients receive the most appropriate interventions in a timely way to enable their recovery, balancing the most current research evidence, available resource, and understanding of local and national policy and objectives.
Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Work autonomously within professional and local guidelines and policies and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
Ensure robust risk assessments are completed for all activities off site and that each young person has an appropriate risk assessment for off-site activities in conjunction with the nursing team.
Keep accurate and up to date documentation using RIO on participation in activities and any information relevant to the young person’s presentation or identified concerns/risks.
Attend the handovers and multi-disciplinary team meetings providing feedback on patients and participating in decision making.
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.

1. Good Communication and the ability to adapt their communication style to meet the needs as well as ability to build therapeutic Rapport with Young People utilising the service.
2. to be approachable and to have the ability to lead evidence base psychological therapy with the young people on the unit
3. Coordination - organizing the Team to enable collaboration and efficient communication and implementation of psychological interventions.
4. Advisory - giving information or advice or a recommendation about what should be done.
   For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
   We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups.
   If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
   We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Alun Lewis on 07815485269 or email: a lun.lewis@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
   We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
   Interview will be held on 5th September 202