Clinical Lead and Specialist Psychologist/Psychotherapist

As Clinical Lead and a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist with substantial senior clinical experience in relation to sexual trauma and post-qualification training in trauma focused interventions, the post-holder will provide Clinical Leadership for the delivery of the multi-agency, GM-wide Sexual Violence and Complex Trauma Pathfinder project.

The post holder will contribute to the development of effective care pathways for adults who have experienced/are experiencing sexual violence and/or abuse and present with complex mental health issues as a result of that trauma. These pathways will span a range of voluntary sector and NHS services in GM.

The post holder will take a trauma-responsive approach to all the duties and responsibilities listed below, recognising that how the Pathfinder is developed and led makes a crucial contribution to the sense of safety and empowerment felt by survivors of sexual violence/abuse and the staff in the organisations supporting them.

The post holder will utilise research skills for evaluation and service development.

Responsibilities

• To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist psychological consultation, guidance and ongoing support to a range of organisations, teams and professionals in the formulation and appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans for survivors of sexual violence/abuse, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.
• To provide expertise and guidance to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychologically informed practice across a range of organisations and teams caring for survivors of sexual violence/abuse.
• To undertake highly specialist psychologically based risk assessment and risk management in complex, distressing and perhaps emergency, situations. Provide guidance and highly specialist formulations on the psychological aspects of risk to a range of organisations, teams and professionals.
• To make decisions and clinical judgements involving a range of highly complex factors in the context of inadequate or unavailable information, equivocal research/evidence or where expert opinion differs.
• To effectively communicate while having expert understanding and managing interpersonal skills barriers in complicated, difficult and contentious matters to service users, family/carers in a potentially emotive or hostile atmosphere.