Specialist Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Psychologist to join a supportive, progressive and inclusive team with psychologists centrally positioned and key to providing clinical leadership and oversight. You will be an enthusiastic and highly motivated, full-time member of the Newbury Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies Team (CMHPT) and deliver psychological services to users presenting with severe/complex mental health difficulties. The successful candidate will join an NHS Trust that is dedicated towards creating a progressive, warm and friendly environment for service users.,

• A key element of the role is providing clinical and leadership skills, supervision, consultation and expertise to junior psychological and other professionals, practitioners, and trainees within the service.
• You will provide direct and indirect psychological assessments and interventions, as well as specialist consultation, supervision and training within the clinical team and across all sectors of related care.
• You will have capacity to work autonomously within professional and local guidelines and policies, as well as competence in collaborative, inclusive, and multi-agency working and service user engagement.
• You will be proficient in conducting comprehensive risk assessments, formulating and facilitating the utilisation of effective risk management plans, and working alongside other agencies where wider case management is indicated.
• You will utilise audit and research skills, suggest and implement improvements in the service, and participate in the development and delivery of service improvement initiatives to improve clinical care and value for money.
• You will be committed to championing diversity, fostering inclusiveness, ensuring ease of access to psychological treatments, as well as being committed to providing neuro-affirmative, trauma-informed and culturally sensitive care.
  
  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. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the 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