Senior Clinician

Senior Clinician Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Senior Clinician to join the Mid Essex Talking Therapies Team. This unique and valued role involves working alongside our Senior Team, CBT therapists, and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to provide specialist support, guidance, and supervision.

The position is based at Tekhnicon House in Braintree, requiring the postholder to be onsite for at least 2 days a week. This is a full-time role, comprising 37.5 hours per week.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide specialized support, guidance, and consultation regarding clients’ psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and other non-professional caregivers within community mental health services and primary care.
• Supervise band 7 psychological therapists, trainee clinical/counseling psychologists, and other psychological therapy practitioners as needed.
• Collaborate closely with local mental health service teams and various psychological therapy colleagues within the service setting.
• Work autonomously while adhering to professional guidelines and the team’s policies and procedures.
• Utilize research skills for conducting audits, teaching, policy and service development, and research within the team’s service area.

Qualifications and Experience

• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and current registration with BACP, UKCP, or BAPCP.
• Experience in supervising both qualified and non-qualified clinical staff.
• Experience in specialist psychological assessment and treatment across diverse care settings.
• Ability to represent psychological therapies in multi-disciplinary team environments and inter-agency collaborations.
• Skills to provide consultation to both professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to identify and promote appropriate support for caregivers and staff dealing with distressing situations and challenging behaviors.
• Demonstrated teaching and training abilities using various multimedia materials suitable for public, professional, and academic presentations.
• Ability to address issues or risks, including safeguarding, and awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments in eating disorders.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Experience in service quality monitoring and development, including clinical audits and evaluative research.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from £57,528 to £64,750 per annum, pro rata.
• Permanent contract with full-time working hours of 37.5 hours per week.
• Opportunity to work within an ‘Outstanding’ rated mental health trust.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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