Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Are you an enthusiastic & motivated Clinical or Counselling Psychologist / CBT therapist looking for an opportunity to hone your clinical skills within a specialist service?

Op Courage is the NHS Veterans Mental Health & Wellbeing Service. Our service covers the central area of Southern England & is led by Dr Deborah Lee. You will work remotely for a 1 year, fixed-term contract, carrying out assessment, formulation, & evidence-based psychological therapy.

A passion for supporting our ex Armed Forces community is essential. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will provide assessment & psychological treatment for veterans with complex mental health issues, including Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, substance misuse & anger issues. You will be fully supported, with training where needed, to offer evidence-based treatment following NICE guidance to meet the needs of our clients, including CBT and TF-CBT, EMDR, NET & Compassion Focused Therapy.

This role can be filled by either a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or a Psychological Therapist - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).If you are a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist ,please use this link to apply:https://!/job/v7959636. If you are an Psychological Therapist - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), please use this link to apply: https://!/job/v7959809

Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of our veterans' mental health issues based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods anchored in evidence-based practice.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual's presentation.

Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

Remotely attend regular multi-disciplinary meetings to help facilitate the smooth running of the service and build relationships and shared learning between staff members across the wider team.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' 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

The must haves for this role:

Holder of an HCPC regulated Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification OR

Post graduate certificate in evidence-based psychological treatments and eligible for BABCP accreditation

Training in evidence-based psychological therapy for PTSD

Evidence of working with people who have…