Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

14 Arches, Staff Psychology and Counselling, is a psychology led service, which delivers specialist psychological support to NHFT colleagues. The service is based in Northampton but provides support across NHFT sites.

You would be joining the team at an exciting time of service expansion, in order to meet the needs of a growing NHFT workforce. This role is for 1.8WTE band 7/8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who will provide a specialist psychology service to staff who refer into the service: including working directly with individuals, groups and teams, offering consultancy, training and supporting the development of the service.

You would be joining an innovative and enthusiastic team made up of principal psychologists, senior psychologists and experienced counsellors, supported by a clinical administrator. Psychologists within the service offer one-to-one consultations to colleagues, in which we explore an area of concern and help make sense of what is going on; we also offer support to teams and team leaders, consulting when there are difficulties and providing input to teams through structured activities and reflective practice.

We are looking for innovative and dedicated clinicians with a strong commitment to improving psychological wellbeing for NHS staff and an interest in using their skills in a range of individual and group interventions with staff.

You would be expected to work alongside the established psychologists and counsellors within the service, delivering support to colleagues who refer in and contributing to supervision, governance and service evaluation/development.Strengths will be in psychological formulation which draws on a range of models, and the ability to communicate and share psychological thinking with colleagues. Also important will be the ability in the postholder to work at a systemic level, develop practice and take forward a project within the service.

• Providing psychological consultations to individual staff who refer into the service around a concern which is impacting them at work
• Offering consultancy to managers around team issues
• Designing and delivering interventions with staff teams
• Developing and delivering psychologically informed groups
• Helping to deliver our pathway for staff experiencing distressing and potentially traumatic incidents at work, including preventative work, post-event support to teams and trauma therapy to individuals
• Utilising research skills for audit, service evaluation/development and research within the service.
• Providing supervision to other psychological professionals within the service e.g. trainee psychologists, counsellors
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies & procedures

• Regular supervision from one of the principal psychologists in the service
• Monthly reflective practice within the team
• Opportunity to work within a well established and integrated Psychological Professions Network, which provides access to regular CPD meetings, organisational support and opportunities to connect with psychological professionals working across the Trust.
• Support to develop supervision and teaching skills, with clinical psychology trainees through both the University of Leicester and University of Oxford Clinical Psychology Doctoral training programmes and/or counselling psychology trainees.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the full job description/specification located under the Supporting Documents heading.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the full job description/specification located under the Supporting Documents heading.

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent
• Eligible/Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post Qualification training in relevant clinical approaches
• Training in providing supervision
• Training in a specific trauma focused therapy (e.g. EMDR, trauma focused CBT)

• Experience working within adult mental health
• Experience/understanding of the unique context of working in the NHS
• Experience providing interventions across a range of complex presentations
• Experience providing supervision
• Experience providing consultation/reflective practice
• Experience providing psychological support to staff
• Experience working with staff teams
• Experience in research, audit and/or service evaluation

Values

• A genuine and demonstrated interest in working in staff psychological wellbeing
• A positive approach to working with difference and diversity & promoting inclusion in all aspects of work

All

• Please see Person Spec/Job description for full list of role requirements

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent
• Eligible/Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post Qualification training in relevant clinical approaches
• Training in providing supervision
• Training in a specific trauma focused therapy (e.g. EMDR, trauma focused CBT)

• Experience working within adult mental health
• Experience/understanding of the unique context of working in the NHS
• Experience providing interventions across a range of complex presentations
• Experience providing supervision
• Experience providing consultation/reflective practice
• Experience providing psychological support to staff
• Experience working with staff teams
• Experience in research, audit and/or service evaluation

Values

• A genuine and demonstrated interest in working in staff psychological wellbeing
• A positive approach to working with difference and diversity & promoting inclusion in all aspects of work

All

• Please see Person Spec/Job description for full list of role requirements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Lotus House

Victoria Street

Northampton

NN1 3NR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Lotus House

Victoria Street

Northampton

NN1 3NR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)