Job summary
- Main area
- OPMH Services WAM
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-TAPMHS670-A
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nicholsons House
- Town
- Maidenhead
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum (Incl. of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 7
Job overview
Exciting Opportunity for a Psychologist – Band 7 (Progression to Band 8a)
We are offering a rewarding opportunity to join our well-established and supportive Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, based at Nicholson House, Maidenhead. This post offers the potential for progression from Band 7 to Band 8a, supported by a clear competency framework and ongoing professional development opportunities.
As part of a friendly, experienced, and multidisciplinary team, you’ll contribute to a variety of clinical services. These include referrals from the community mental health team, home treatment team, and neuropsychological assessments and therapy via the memory clinic. You’ll also have the opportunity to:
- Lead on team formulation and service development projects
- Develop your supervision and leadership skills
- Work closely with individuals living with dementia through our specialist home-based and memory clinic services
We provide a specialist psychology service for older adults across the Windsor, Ascot, and Maidenhead area, with a strong emphasis on collaborative care and innovation.
We welcome applications from Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and are also open to interviewing trainees due to qualify by September.
Please note that travel across Trust sites may occasionally be required as part of the role.
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
Main duties of the job
You will carry out specialist clinical assessments, which may include psychometric, behavioural, and neuropsychological assessments. These will be based on careful use and interpretation of information from a range of sources, such as:
- Self-report questionnaires and rating scales
- Structured and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members, and carers
- Direct and indirect observations.
You will use the information gathered to:
- Understand the individual’s needs
- Help guide clinical decisions and planning
- Consider the views of the service user, their carers, and other professionals
- Take into account a person’s history, development, physical and cognitive health, and other factors that have shaped their situation
- Apply relevant psychological theories, therapeutic models, and current research and guidance.
You will:
- · Manage your own clinical caseload
- · Support and implement intervention plans with service users, their families, and carers
- · Work collaboratively with other services and agencies involved in care
- · This includes contributing to psychological formulations, diagnoses, and treatment plans, and offering guidance on mental capacity and consent to treatment where needed.
You’ll also provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to:
- Other professionals
- Carers
- Partner services and agencies
Working for our organisation
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
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Registered psychologist with HCPC.
- Experience of working within an integrated multi-disciplinary environment.
- Ability to drive and have a car for use at work.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
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.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Dr Chris Allen on 01189047300 or email: [email protected] who will 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 or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas) which provides eligibility for Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of training and/or interest and knowledge in psychological models and therapeutic approaches relevant to the post.
- Commitment to continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant accrediting body.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in evidence-based ways with services users (and their carers/families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances, such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics
- Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
- Experience of service development and carrying out clinical audit, evaluative research and applying the findings
- Experience of working with, and addressing issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism, and equality of access to service.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering teaching and training to staff
- Experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring, or providing structured guidance to other staff
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and abilities in the practice of psychological/neuropsychological or psychotherapeutic assessment, formulation and intervention, relevant to the service area.
- Knowledge and understanding of service evaluation, audit and research and completing this in the NHS.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, technical and/or sensitive information to service users, their carers/families and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to support, influence and engage with clinicians, stakeholders and service users to create change and improvement
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
- Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS office/Teams, One Consultation and the internet).
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly around working patterns as required, and ability to travel independently between locations in Berkshire to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Chris Allen
- Job title
- Psychology EMI
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01189047300
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