Specialist CBT therapist/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,751.00 to £68,623.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53751.00 - £68623.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 6PZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-25-1198 |
Summary
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the EIP Mental Health Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To deliver NICE approved CBTp and Family Interventions for Psychosis. To facilitate groups for clients and carers. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, including responsibilities within the policies and clinical duties to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. This will require being able to convey this to clients, families and colleagues with a range of understanding and knowledge so will require the ability to be flexible, adaptive and simple but yet retain a sophisticated understanding and approach. To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.