Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - #146614
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 1 day ago
City: Northampton
Contract type: Full time
This post is a fixed term post for 12 months to cover maternity. The role is based in Community Adult Mental Health Teams in the South of the county.
CMHTs are multidisciplinary teams that deliver specialist support and clinical interventions to people with a range of mental health difficulties.
The post-holder will be part of the leadership team within the CMHTs as well as supervising and supporting other practitioner psychologists and
team members. Psychologists are valued members of the MDT and are encouraged to play a key role in MDT working. You will work alongside
other Principal Psychologists, working in both South and north CMHTs. The Principal psychologists are supported by the Adult Mental
Health Psychology Lead.
The postholder will supervise and line manage members of psychology staff who work into the CMHTs. They will also carry out clinical work and we are keen to recruit someone with experience, specialist knowledge and skills of working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, psychosis and personality difficulties.
The postholder will aslo take a leadership role therefore leadership skills and the ability to develop innovative practice and play a lead role in service development. We are looking for someone who can contribute at a senior level to the vision for the service working closely with various stakeholders.
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 details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Nadia Karim Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07747458151
CMHTs are multidisciplinary teams that deliver specialist support and clinical interventions to people with a range of mental health difficulties.
The post-holder will be part of the leadership team within the CMHTs as well as supervising and supporting other practitioner psychologists and
team members. Psychologists are valued members of the MDT and are encouraged to play a key role in MDT working. You will work alongside
other Principal Psychologists, working in both South and north CMHTs. The Principal psychologists are supported by the Adult Mental
Health Psychology Lead.
The postholder will supervise and line manage members of psychology staff who work into the CMHTs. They will also carry out clinical work and we are keen to recruit someone with experience, specialist knowledge and skills of working with severe and enduring mental health difficulties such as complex trauma, psychosis and personality difficulties.
The postholder will aslo take a leadership role therefore leadership skills and the ability to develop innovative practice and play a lead role in service development. We are looking for someone who can contribute at a senior level to the vision for the service working closely with various stakeholders.
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 details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Nadia Karim Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07747458151
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