Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £60,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | YO1 |
| Company: | Sanctuary Personnel |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 213214-43033 |
Summary
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Location: York
Type: Permanent
Salary: £60,000 per annum
Job Summary:
Sanctuary Personnel are seeking a dedicated Clinical Psychologist to join our client's team in York. As a key member of our Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), you will play a crucial role in the ongoing development of our service, providing clinical expertise and collaborating closely with colleagues across disciplines.
Our Client's Mission:
• Our aim is to help individuals feel better and recover faster by providing world-class specialist care. We are committed to safety, quality improvement, and patient-centered care.
Our Client's Purpose:
• We provide individualised specialist care tailored to each patient's unique needs, focusing on evidence-based treatments and collaboration with consultants to achieve the best outcomes.
Our Client's Objectives:
• Treat every patient as a partner in their care.
• Rigorously collect and analyse patient outcome and safety data.
• Innovate and develop services to improve patient outcomes.
• Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Foster a supportive work environment for colleagues.
Our Client's Values:
• Caring
• Accountable
• Collaborative
• Courageous
• Determined
Responsibilities:
Clinical:
• Lead the provision and advancement of psychological input, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and robust governance procedures.
• Collaborate with the unit Consultant Psychiatrist to monitor, review, and enhance psychological provision.
• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and formulate individualised treatment plans for new admissions.
• Manage a caseload, providing therapeutic interventions and evaluating their effectiveness.
• Facilitate psychological group sessions and contribute to the team's formulation and therapeutic skills development.
• Offer consultancy, supervision, and training to team members as needed.
• Participate in continuing professional development activities and annual appraisals.
• Provide leadership in fostering a therapeutic environment and actively engage in team supervision and development.
Support:
• Support the development of the team's formulation and therapeutic skills.
• Provide consultancy, supervision, and training to colleagues, including Assistant Psychologists and other members of the MDT.
• Deliver teaching and training sessions on psychological assessment, formulation, intervention, and other relevant topics.
Administrative:
• Maintain accurate records of client contacts and assessments in accordance with relevant policies and using appropriate systems.
• Prepare written reports on psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic progress, and outcomes for colleagues and referrers.
Requirements:
• Maintain eligibility for the register of Chartered Psychologists
• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
• HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist
• Practical knowledge of using full range of psychological theory models to inform clinical work and consultation
• Understanding of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including developmental and attachment trauma
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems including high levels of risk to self
• Excellent skills in psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation
• Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes including report writing
• Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance with patients with complex difficulties related to relational trauma
• Demonstrates the ability to develop positive working alliances with multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to Formulate Complex processes
• Capacity to conduct psychometric assessment where needed
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients including those with diagnoses of PTSD and Personality Disorder
• Experience working with teams
• Self-motivated and self-starter with the ability to prioritise and schedule work independently
• Highly organised, detail-oriented and analytical
• Adaptable in terms of working times and responsibilities e.g., out of hours work may be required with due notice.
• Maintains a professional conduct at all times, remaining calm and in control.
• Be able to adapt to the ever changing environment and reacting quickly to meet challenges
If you're passionate about providing high-quality care and contributing to service development in a supportive environment, we encourage you to apply now through Sanctuary Personnel.
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