Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
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Job Opportunity for an Experienced 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.
About the Role
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
- Offer specialist consultation, supervision, and training within the clinical team and across all sectors of related care
- Work autonomously within professional and local guidelines and policies
- Collaborate inclusively and work in a multi-agency setting
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and facilitate the utilisation of effective risk management plans
- Engage with other agencies where wider case management is indicated
- Utilise audit and research skills to suggest and implement improvements in the service
- Participate in the development and delivery of service improvement initiatives to improve clinical care and value for money
- Champion diversity, foster inclusiveness, and ensure ease of access to psychological treatments
- Provide neuro-affirmative, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive care
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About Us
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
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
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Benefits
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
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Dr Elizabeth Bazalgette
- Job title: Principal Psychologist
- Email address: elizabeth.bazalgette@berkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0118 904 3200
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