This Principal post sits in the Exeter Core Teams at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, for a clinical or counselling psychologist or psychotherapist working 0.8 WTE. The core of the work is highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention, principally Mentalisation-Based Treatment, alongside a specialist caseload and clinical oversight of the Exeter MBT programme. It is a locality link role for complex emotional needs across the Eastern locality, giving consultation, supervision and teaching to community and inpatient colleagues. Applicants need a professional qualification and registration, plus MBT Practitioner-level training.
What the job involves
- Carry out highly specialist psychological and psychotherapeutic assessments, including risk assessment, and develop complex formulations
- Deliver individual and group interventions, principally Mentalisation-Based Treatment
- Manage a specialist caseload, working with people, families and carers where needs are complex
- Provide clinical oversight of the Exeter MBT programme and support fidelity to the model
- Act as locality link clinician for complex emotional needs, giving expert advice and consultation to multidisciplinary teams
- Support teams with care planning, engagement and psychologically informed, reflective practice
- Supervise and develop staff, trainees and volunteers
- Deliver teaching and training
- Contribute to service redesign, audit, research and evaluation
- Maintain accurate clinical records and collect outcome dataWork with senior leaders and partner services to build an integrated, evidence-based pathway across Devon
Qualifications
- Qualified clinical or counselling psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent), or qualified psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapist
- Additional specialist training or experience with people who have complex emotional needs, including personality disorder diagnoses
- Mentalisation-Based Treatment Practitioner-level qualification
Registration & licences
- Registration with BPC, UKCP, HCPC or other body for psychological therapy, consistent with NHSE recognised registers guidance
Experience
- Working with service users who have complex emotional needs, personality disorders and complex lives, across a range of settings
- Delivering teaching, training and supervision
- Training or experience in diversity awareness and social inequality
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication, clear telephone manner, and presenting or facilitating to varied groups
- Strong leadership, resilience and ability to handle ambiguity, with a calm, methodical approach
- Managing conflict, negotiation and reaching consensus in complex situations
- Organisation, planning and time management, including forward planning to avoid gaps in provision, and working to deadlines
- Broad knowledge of specialist NHS services, psychotherapy and psychological therapy practice, and the relevant policy and clinical leadership context
- Competent IT skills and ability to integrate complex data and make highly skilled decisions
Other
- Highly skilled in specialist interventions with the client group
- Advanced psychotherapeutic assessment and formulation skills, including risk assessment
Nice to have
- Further qualification or training in a relevant specialism, such as Adaptive Mentalisation-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT)
- Supervisor qualification in MBT or another modality
- Reflective practice training
- Project management skills or experience
- Experience of leadership roles in NHS psychotherapy services, contributing to strategies and clinical policies in multidisciplinary, multi-agency settings
What’s offered
- Part-time and flexible working considered and supported
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