Job Description
Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in St Helier on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Clinical/Counselling Psychologist job is £67,874 – £74,599 per annum.
Duties:
- Deliver a high-quality specialist psychology service to adults accessing support from the Mental Health Care Group
- Providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and interventions to adults over the age of 18 years with complex/ highly complex needs and presentations, utilising a range of psychological approaches and interventions
- Supervision of newly qualified psychologists, development of peer supervision and advocacy of psychological theories and interventions among other professionals
Requirements of the Clinical/Counselling Psychologist:
- A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology and eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society
- Registration with the HCPC
- Demonstrates advanced theoretical & practical knowledge of psychology and specialist area to inform assessment of clients
- Deep understanding of working with common and complex/severe enduring mental health issues and alcohol use disorders within a professional role and how clients may present in Primary/secondary Care
- Understanding of the supervision of others in a professional and clinical capacity
- Working knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems
- Good understanding/ability to critique use of medication in mental health and alcohol misuse
- Knowledge of how to carry out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Familiarity with codes of practice of Health and Social Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Good understanding of safeguarding
- Able to demonstrate a range of information technology skills i.e. an ability to effectively use IT equipment and role critical software
- Able to provide clinical supervision to high intensity staff/MDT clinicians/ assistant and junior psychologists in the service
- Well-developed skills for assessing clients in specialist caseload
- Able to understand and manage a range of complex facts or situations requiring analysis
- Strong problem-solving acumen
- Excellent communication; verbal and written
- Communicates effectively across all levels and media
- Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas
- Demonstrates empathy towards individual clients
- Able to remain professional and effective under pressure
- Committed to continuous service improvement and also continued professional development for themselves and their team
- Self-directed and resourceful
- The ability to work between multiple specialisms and with different professions
- Experience of working as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within a competency framework
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring
- Relevant training undertaken in relation to adult/child safeguarding
- Knowledge of service procedures and protocols
Contact:
This Clinical/Counselling Psychologist job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.