Highly Specialist Clinical Or Counselling Psychologist

Description:

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who specialises in complex trauma and mental health difficulties? Do you like to work systemically with the team around the child?

Our Therapeutic Care Service supports independent care providers who want to deliver specialist, therapeutic care. In your role as Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, you will oversee the delivery of effective and integrated psychological support services for one of our partner providers, Essential Therapeutic Care in Aldermaston, Berkshire.

ETC currently have three small CQC and/or Ofsted registered residential services for adolescents with complex mental health needs, attachment and trauma difficulties. Many of the young people also have diagnoses of neurodevelopmental differences such as autism or ADHD. ETC are planning on opening a fourth home in the coming year. The primary purpose of these homes is to provide support to young people (aged 13-25) who need to ‘step-down’ from inpatient mental health, or to prevent them from being admitted in the first place.

Your role will include embracing and implementing our ATIC™ model (Attachment & Trauma Informed Care) and embedding consistent, predictable ATIC components and structures within ETC.

This is a highly autonomous and empathic leadership role to oversee reflective practice, integrated leadership meetings, risk management meetings for young people, assessments, staff training in trauma-informed practice, and formulation and planning meetings.

You may also provide routine therapy to the young people, or you may provide supervision to a specialist trauma therapist who is responsible for direct work with the young people. You will provide supervision to an Assistant Psychologist who will support on the delivery of both the therapeutic interventions and the systemic team structures that you will lead.

There is much scope for evolving and expanding the clinical role within the team and we are proud to have a dynamic and creative approach to implementing meaningful change within the services we support.

Role requirements:

• HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
• Essential: Substantial experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic support structures in inpatient mental health settings or a children’s services context (i.e. residential services) – local authority, CAMHS, or services for looked after children
• Essential: Substantial experience of providing systemic consultation and advice to organisations, social work staff and other professionals eg CAMHS or Local Authorities
• Desirable: Experience in leading a psychological service and offering supervision and support to clinical psychologists in delivering Attachment and Trauma Informed Care
• Start date: ASAP