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The Community Treatment Teams provide services across CNTW in the more severe and enduring Mental Health space. The primary focus of this service stream is adults with Severe Mental Health Problems. The North Cumbria CTT is divided into East and West teams. Psychological Practitioners within the CTT use an eclectic mix of evidence based therapeutic models and styles, and a range of resources to meet the needs of their service users. The CTT operates across two pathways: the Non-Psychosis pathway and the Psychosis pathway.
Job Responsibility:
To carry a caseload of Psychological Therapy clients and deliver evidence based psychological assessment and interventions to individuals, families and groups
To provide psychological assessment of clients based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of psychological data from a variety of sources
To use judgement in formulation and implementation of plans for the client's care, and to design and implement specific evidence-based therapy programmes
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all clients, and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
To communicate complex and potentially emotive information regarding the client's condition, treatment and prognosis
To liaise with colleagues in the service to ensure the delivery of high-quality psychological care to clients
To provide advice and consultation to colleagues and to client, carers and support networks as required
Requirements:
Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC
HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist or BABCP registration
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across range of care settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
Skills in evidence based psychological interventions
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials 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 behaviour
Applicants must have current UK professional registration
Nice to have:
Pre-qualification training and experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or psychological therapist training
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of the application of clinical psychology or therapy in different cultural contexts
Experience of working within a multicultural framework