Senior Clinician

Overview

In this role you will deliver specialist psychological care guidance to non-psychological therapists and carers, supervise clinical staff, and collaborate with multidisciplinary mental health teams. You will work autonomously within policy frameworks while contributing to audit, teaching, and service development. Based in Tekhnicon House, Braintree, you will participate in on-site delivery and cross-agency liaison. This senior position supports service quality and clinical governance in community mental health settings. You will engage in shaping practice through supervision, consultation, and ongoing learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological care guidance and consultation to non-psychological therapist colleagues and carers in community mental health services and primary care
• Provide supervision to band 7 psychological therapists / trainee clinical/counselling psychologists and other psychological therapies practitioners
• Collaborate closely with local mental health service teams and other psychological therapy colleagues
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies
• Utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the service area

Key requirements

• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration
• Experience supervising qualified and non-qualified clinical staff
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across care settings
• Ability to represent psychological therapies in MDT and inter-agency collaboration
• Ability to provide consultation to professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to teach/train others using multi-media materials
• Experience addressing safeguarding issues and managing risks
• Awareness of NHS initiatives and developments in eating disorders
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Experience of service quality monitoring and service development (clinical audit, evaluative research)

• Strong collaboration and inter-disciplinary communication
• Ability to teach and train others
• Ability to handle highly distressing situations and support staff
• CBT expertise
• Clinical supervision
• Audit and evaluative research

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