Senior clinical psychologist role in the Community Mental Health Service at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, covering the Fareham and Gosport teams. Core work is leading a complex emotional needs treatment pathway that joins DBT and CAT practitioners, plus managing and supervising psychologists. Direct clinical work sits alongside a dedicated therapy team, and the post can grow across the division. Applicants need HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist and accredited or well-developed DBT experience.
What the job involves
- Provide senior psychological expertise within the Community Mental Health Service
- Lead development of the complex emotional needs treatment pathway, bringing together DBT and CAT practitioners
- Provide management and specialist clinical supervision to psychologists in the Fareham and Gosport CMHTs
- Provide strategic oversight of the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway across the PSEH division
- Offer supervision, training and reflective practice to service staff
- Deliver direct clinical work alongside a dedicated therapy team
- Work with the leadership team and peer support staff to build a multi-professional therapeutic environment
- Cover gaps in other patches within the division, as agreed with the Lead Psychologist
- Ensure job planning and embed pathways in the geographical patch
- Provide performance and quality data to the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Align DBT teams across the division and support development of the complex emotional needs offer
What’s required
Qualifications
- Doctoral clinical psychology training accredited by the BPS, covering psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more therapies and lifespan development
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists, or equivalent experience
- Accredited or well-experienced in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Registration & licences
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
- Senior clinical psychology experience across the full life course, severity range and care settings
- Full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care within multi-professional care plans
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and staff management
- Staying professional with highly distressing problems, verbal abuse and threatened physical abuse
Skills & knowledge
- Complex psychological assessment and intervention for severe and enduring mental health problems
- Clear communication of technical and sensitive information to patients, families and professionals
- Doctoral-level research design and complex multivariate data analysis
- Knowledge of mental health legislation and a recovery-focused approach with positive risk taking
- Managing conflict, prioritising workload and supporting staff and carers exposed to distress
Other
- Values-based conduct: compassionate care, listening, honesty, integrity, taking responsibility and delivering on commitments
- Ability to travel between sites as required
Nice to have
- Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy
- Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP ACAT or a similar body
- Management or leadership training
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests can be discussed as part of the interview
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
