Job summary
- Main area
- IMPACTT
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-MHS526-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University of Reading, Erlegh House
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- 拢76,412 - 拢87,723 per annum (incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist
Band 8c
Job overview
We are a warm, innovative and forward-thinking specialist team in a compassionate, highly rated Trust, working with people with complex emotional needs. 听We deliver evidence-based interventions focusing on achieving the best outcomes for our clients, whilst taking the wellbeing and training of staff very seriously, with regular supervision, reflective practice and wellbeing events.
If you are a clinical/counselling psychologist or psychotherapist with expertise or post-qualification training in working with Personality Disorder, with significant experience of successfully developing, leading and co-ordinating psychological provision in multi-disciplinary settings, we have a rare opportunity for you! Joining our team would give you the chance to influence the ongoing development of our Personality Disorder provision, as well as support the delivery and governance of the service which plays a key role in the Personality Disorder pathway. You would be working as part of a supportive leadership team under a Lead Consultant Psychologist, alongside another Consultant Psychologist, in a team of psychological therapists, mental health and lived experience practitioners to provide specialist assessments and evidence-based therapies (MBT and DBT). The team also incorporates Assertive Stabilisation (ASSIST), SUN and PICT sub-teams as part of the Personality Disorder pathway and we link in closely with the wider Psychological Therapies network and mental health provision.
Main duties of the job
- To lead, manage, and supervise Clinical Leads and enable all staff to deliver high quality assessments and evidence-based interventions to individuals accessing the Personality Disorder pathway, providing strategic, professional, and clinical direction
- To draw on a high level of expert knowledge and experience of evidence-based interventions of working with individuals with difficulties which may be associated with EUPD
- To draw on substantial experience of leading service delivery and service development in supporting the ongoing implementation of the pathway, across primary care and outpatient settings, and involvement of key stakeholders within and outside of Berkshire Healthcare
- To work as part of the senior management team alongside the PICT Consultant Psychologist
- To deputise for the Lead Consultant Psychologist /Head of Service and represent IMPACTT and/or psychological therapies at relevant policy and service provision meetings, locally and nationally
- To bring a personal, professional and leadership approach which is collaborative and compassionate and enables positive engagement, emotional containment, and skills-development relevant to work with the client group.
- To exercise responsibility for service improvement, quality assurance and governance of the service
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 鈥榦utstanding鈥 by the CQC, we鈥檙e committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.听
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.听We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you鈥檒l be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days鈥 annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- 鈥楥ycle to Work鈥 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
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 鈥渕ust haves鈥 for this role:
- You must hold a UK recognised qualification in Clinical/Counselling psychology or Psychotherapy
- Current UK professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council or a UKCP registration.
- Experience in leading services and successfully managing or contributing to major change programmes.
- Exceptional interpersonal and highly effective communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead
- An enhanced DBS check
- You will be able and willing to travel between bases in Berkshire as needed.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
Working hours for this post will be Monday 鈥 Friday, 9am 鈥 5pm (flexible working requests will be considered)
Work base:听 Erlegh House, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6BZ
- You will need to travel across Berkshire at times to deliver training as part of your role
- Working from home opportunities can be discussed
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.听
We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and 鈥極ther鈥 Ethnic Groups.听
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don鈥檛 hesitate to call: Sorana Berry (Head of Service) on 07900 267968 or email: [email protected] who鈥檒l be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training - For Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Essential criteria
- Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical/counselling psychology (or approved equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) or UKCP/BPC
- Additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g., MBT, DBT or equivalent).
Education/Qualifications/Training - For Psychotherapists
Essential criteria
- Recognised master's level qualification in psychodynamic psychotherapy or equivalent.
- Registered and accredited with UKCP as a psychotherapist or with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).
- Additional accreditations to reflect post qualification specialist training (e.g. MBT, DBT or equivalent)
- Registered with professional body UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Evidence of post-qualification specialist training to accreditable level in at least two areas of psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements for this post. OR 鈥 Evidence of extensive post-qualification training, experience and expert knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches with an evidence base in Adult Mental Health and Personality Disorder, appropriate to discipline
- Clinical supervision qualification and accreditation.
- Professional leadership qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience
- Training and/or proven ability in providing effective education, consultation and coaching to develop and support others.
Previous Experience - Clinical Provision
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working as a qualified (Principal) clinical/counselling psychologist/psychotherapist, including demonstrable post qualification experience at a highly specialist level in area of specialism and particularly with people with Personality Disorder.
- Substantial experience of working in evidence-based ways with service users (and their carers and families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and threatening behaviour
- Extensive experience of managing highly complex situations concerning safeguarding, risk management, clinical governance, complaints and investigations.
Previous Experience - Clinical & Professional Leadership and Supervision
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of applying professional expertise when leading multidisciplinary teams / in multi-agency environments in a relevant clinical setting.
- Extensive experience of leading services and teams with complex caseloads requiring the application of evidence-based psychological methods, assessments, formulation, and interventions.
- Extensive experience of teaching and professional/clinical supervision as well as experience of developing training and supervisory models
Previous Experience - Operational and Human Resources Management
Essential criteria
- Evidence of successfully holding responsibility for, delivering and being accountable for services that meet local and national targets
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to manage a demanding and complex caseload while supporting junior colleagues.
- High level and well-developed ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within the Trust and across the system.
- Extensive experience of successfully managing complex and challenging discussions with system partners, including where there may be disagreement about responsibility for care.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Teaching and group facilitation skills.
- Exceptional and highly effective interpersonal communication skills with the ability to support, engage and lead patients, clinicians and other stakeholder groups in change, development and improvement
- Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office and the internet)
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Additional requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the ability to respond to people鈥檚 needs sensitively particularly regarding all aspects of diversity
- Able to work flexibly as required (including on call where relevant) and to travel independently between locations to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sorana Berry
- Job title
- Head of Service, IMPACTT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07900267968
List jobs with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors