We are seeking a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service, Personality/Complex Trauma team at a 0.8 wte (30 hours per week) permanent contract. The role requires experience of providing psychotherapeutic interventions for people with complex emotional needs and experiences of complex trauma.
The closing date is 01 June 2026.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist psychotherapy assessments to service users referred to the team.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment/ psychotherapy implementation and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.
To work on a daily basis in face‑to‑face individual and/or group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems.
To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we’re looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
Our staff, service users, carers and families come from such diverse backgrounds and all bring expertise and stories to share.
We support each other in the role, prioritise health and wellbeing and provide access to training, education, apprenticeships, work experience, placements and research opportunities.
We are proud of the difference we make to people’s lives each day, and we would love you to be part of that.
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and personal specification for full details.
To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/psychotherapists and non‑psychologists) contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC, BPS/BABCP/RCN or other accrediting organisation as required, e.g., ACAT and Trust guidelines.
To provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.
To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists, as appropriate.
To provide clinical supervision to less‑experienced qualified clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, counsellors, assistants or other professionals, as appropriate.
To contribute to the pre‑ and post‑qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology, as appropriate.
To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and non‑psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, as appropriate.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
- Either Doctorate in Clinical Psychology plus HCPC registration OR post‑graduate diploma/NHS model plus accreditation
- Qualification in another recognised NHS psychotherapy model such as DBT, EMDR, CAT, CBT for Personality Disorder or Psychodynamic
Experience
- Significant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users who experience difficulties associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder/complex trauma.
- Experience of MDT working.
Skills
- Working with people who are at risk of harm to themselves and who enact complex interpersonal dynamics.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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