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• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical, counselling, or forensic psychology or its equivalent, accredited by the BPS. Training in models of developmental lifespan psychology, psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies. HCPC Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• OR A recognised post-graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (or equivalent). Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) (via having a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g., nursing, psychology, medicine, social work, occupational therapy, or evidence of having achieved the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) route).
• OR A recorded/registered qualification in counselling or psychotherapy and further post-accreditation qualification in a NICE recommended or evidence-based therapy (e.g., CBT; EMDR). Accreditation with a Professional Standards Authority recognised Accreditation Body.

Desirable criteria

• Other relevant CPD qualifications, pre- or post-training. Especially training in working with people with trauma presentations, research methodology, staff training, and/or other fields of applied psychology. Training in more than one psychological therapy.
• Training in more than one psychological therapy.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience working with and delivering psychological therapy to those with a diagnosis of personality disorder and/or a history of self-harm and substance misuse and experience of working with complex trauma.
• Experience of delivering brief, primary care, CBT interventions or equivalent.
• Experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings.
• Experience of teaching and training.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural and specialist contexts.
• Experience of working in secure settings, either prison or secure hospitals.
• Experience of working with service-users to develop peer facilitated support or treatment initiatives.
• Experience in supervising others in the delivery of psychological therapy.
• Experience of working using multitherapeutic approaches.

Knowledge And Skills

Essential criteria

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing training, advice, and psychological information and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses).
• Ability to work intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs, including sexual and violent offending and self-harming and suicidal behaviours.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• High-level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Good understanding of the current context of service provision within the NHS.
• Willingness to work flexibly to meet demands of contracts, commissioners, and other stakeholders to provide high-quality and effective care.
• Willingness to work flexibly to meet demands of contracts, commissioners, and other stakeholders to provide high-quality and effective care.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.