Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Early Intervention in Psychosis

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Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Buckinghamshire Early Intervention Service

We Can Offer You

• Flexible working, including working from home part of the week
• The opportunity to develop your supervisory and managerial skills
• Access to regular supervision and ongoing training (including training in family interventions)
• Close links with Oxford Clinical Psychology Training course and Clinical Research teams
• The opportunity to develop innovations and pursue special interests
• Excellent team working supportive colleagues and friendly efficient admin support
  

We Are Looking For

• An enthusiastic and resourceful person who is able to work within a multi-disciplinary team both independently and with initiative
• Ability to provide specialist cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis
• An interest in supervision
• Ability to use your professional skills to support and motivate your colleagues and your clients
  

The Early Intervention in Psychosis service in Oxford Health is a well-established, high quality service providing multidisciplinary team working for all those experiencing a first episode of psychosis in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We are a clinical academic service, working alongside researchers from the University of Oxford and with several joint clinical-academic posts within our service. We are at the forefront of undertaking research in the area of early psychosis to better understand the causes of psychosis and the most effective treatments and are then able to directly implement these findings into practice, for the benefit of patients. We are partners of the Oxford AHSN Early Intervention in Mental Health Network.

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic permanent full-time (other work patterns will be considered) psychologist post in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in Buckinghamshire.

The purpose of the post is to provide a highly specialist psychology service to the clients of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, across a variety of settings. In particular, the post-holder will deliver NICE-recommended individual cognitive behavioural therapy to clients with psychosis (CBTp), and family intervention (FI) to clients with psychosis and their carers.

The post-holder will be expected to see psychologically complex clients, for example, with multiple psychotic symptoms and other co-morbid difficulties. The treatment requires post-graduate training (in cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis) and we are looking to recruit a post holder who has completed the post graduate certificate or diploma in CBTp. If you are currently completing this training or are willing to complete it we could offer a preceptorship where you would be employed as a band 7, Specialist Psychologist, and upon successful completion of the training would transition into a band 8, Highly Specialist, role.

The post-holder will also provide clinical supervision, consultation and training to the psychology assistants, care coordinators and psychological therapists working in the team. The post holder will be expected to utilise research skills for audit, service development and clinically-relevant research. The post-holder will work as part of an MDT and contribute to the wider team functions.

The post will be managed through the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, with line management and clinical and professional supervision provided by the Principal Counselling Psychologist.

The successful candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and will be HCPC registered and BABCP accreditable. Interest and experience in working with clients with psychosis and their carers using a CBT framework is essential.

This will be an exciting opportunity to develop further experience and skills in early intervention for psychosis in both community and inpatient settings. Excellent supervision, support and CPD opportunities are available.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helena Laughton Job title: Principal Psychologist Email address: helena.laughton@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01865 901517