Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
Band 7 - 8a
Job overview
Are you a qualified or soon to qualify Clinical / Counselling Psychologist looking to work with children and adolescents with complex mental health difficulties?
Does a flexible role that coincides with your home life as well as paying HCAS sound like what you are looking for?
Would you be proud to work for an “Outstanding” Trust that has a huge focus on the wellbeing of their staff?
Here at Berkshire Healthcare, we are recruiting for a number of Clinical / Counselling Psychologist roles across our Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) , Neurodiversity and Learning Disabilities Teams.
As a Trust our services operate geographically from a number of sites across Berkshire, from the East as far as Slough to Newbury in West Berkshire.
Our Clinical / Counselling Psychologists work within our multidisciplinary teams playing an important role providing specialist psychological assessments, care planning and a range of evidence-based psychological interventions. They work both one to one with our patients as well as delivering group treatments.
We have strong, supportive teams who can offer you good clinical supervision as well as training opportunities in desirable fields.
Main duties of the job
Must haves for this role:
- HCPC registered Psychologist with a doctorate in counselling or clinical psychology
- Previous leadership / managerial experience
- Experience working in a mental health service
- Experience of delivering agreed/specified service targets and demonstrable effective time management in a busy and demanding environment
(As a newly qualified we appreciate you will not have some of these lived experiences but would still like to hear from you)
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solution
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We have a number of Clinical / Counselling Psychologist vacancies and the JD and responsibilities are dependent on role and Service applied for after discussion.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Psychologist with a doctorate in counselling or clinical psychology
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Moulds
- Job title
- Talent Acquisition Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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