Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Seeking enthusiastic and compassionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist for temporary post to cover maternity leave.

The Calderdale Core team is a collaborative adult mental health team, comprised of mental health nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, support workers and clinical and counselling psychologists and psychotherapists. We are embracing trauma informed practice and exciting developments in mental health community transformation.

Within your role, you will provide psychological therapy to service users and support the psychological thinking within the wider team. Offering clinical supervision is also a part of the working role and we will support you to develop in this area (particularly if employed as newly qualified).

Currently we have a broad psychological therapy offer and the service offers both individual and group therapies, contributing to a rich and varied experience in the working role. We are a collaborative and supportive team with support for continued professional development, clinical supervision, and line management. Opportunities for further training and gaining experience in other clinical areas will also be supported.

You will be supported by the managerial and leadership structure of the core team, alongside receiving access to line management, professional and clinical supervision from clinical psychologists based with the Core team., We are seeking a clinical psychologist with interest and enthusiasm for working with service users with complex psychological and mental health needs.

We are particularly looking for individuals who have a strong interest or experience of working with adults with complex psychological problems, and of delivering psychological therapies to this client group alongside offering psychological consultation to mental health team members.

We have good links to the D. Clin Psych training course at Leeds, offering placements to trainees, supervising research and providing teaching.

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be made to Dr Jo Robinson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Core team.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

While this role meets the eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the fixed-term nature of the contract, the Trust may not be able to offer sponsorship for this post.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.