(Rotherham) is looking for a part time (3 days/week) HCPC registered clinical or counselling psychologist skilled at working with adults with complex mental health and co-morbid presentations e.g. ASC, complex trauma, personality disorders, functional neurological disorder, disordered eating, depression, OCD and self-harm. Salaries in the region of £55 to £60 K (pro rata) will be negotiated depending on experience.
Want to work in a service where you can offer excellent psychological care in a highly competent, multi-disciplinary team, with space for innovation and room to develop your areas of clinical interest in complex mental health disorders and/or the associated co-morbidities? If yes, then this organisation for you.
The part time post will be appointed according to experience and as such applications will be welcomed from both psychologists who are well established in their career, as well as more recently qualified psychologists who would like to develop expertise within this specialist field of complex care.
Main duties of the job
The post is integral in supporting and developing psychological perspectives across the MDT as well as in providing assessment, formulations and therapy to patients and their families. Specialist psychological interventions (in individual, family and group settings) and therapeutic relationships play an important role in supporting vulnerable adults to overcome their mental health difficulties and prepare for life outside of hospital. The post will be supervised by a consultant or senior clinical psychologist and you will work closely with the multidisciplinary team, other psychologists, assistant psychologists, and therapeutic support workers and autism champions (i.e. with psychology undergraduate degrees) on the unit and as part of the psychological services team who work closely across the hospital sites.
The client has a reputation as a unit of last resort treating some of the most complex patients in the UK. As such, we are committed to offering evidence-based treatments, but also want to create opportunities to expand the evidence-base and knowledge in the field. Consequently, there will be excellent opportunities for research, training, teaching, service improvement and service evaluation projects.
You need to be empathetic, boundaried, clinically skilful and a team-player given the challenges of working on an inpatient unit. Inpatient working is primarily on site and has continued face-to-face rather than remotely.