Therapy Lead Clinical Psychologist

Are you an experienced Clinical Psychologist looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference and changes lives for the better? Join the team at Barnet Lane Clinic as a Clinical Psychologist Therapy Lead and enjoy support from a regional network of healthcare professionals. 

You will be working at Barnet Lane Clinic, a service that provides rehabilitation service for men and women with a mental illness including those diagnosed with a personality disorder.

There is a strong emphasis on teamwork and CPD at Barnet Lane Clinic, where you will have continuous access to a range of training opportunities to move your career forward.

You will be responsible for the overall clinical leadership of the Therapies team at which will include developing clinical pathways, clinical governance and provision of high quality clinical supervisions. You will also have responsibility for the systemic development and provision of specialist psychological and occupational therapy services for service users.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will lead and oversee the specialised psychological programme and the transdisciplinary team, where you will provide supervision and training to your peers to ensure they understand the concepts and principles underpinning the framework and the specialised skills required to work successfully within this service model.

You will have experience and knowledge in carrying a designated caseload, including assessing service users with complex needs, and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatment within mental health services.

It's a role that brings pride and fulfilment, where you will experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Clinical Psychologist Therapy Lead, you will be:

• Delivering strategic and clinical strategies to grow and further develop the mental health care pathway.
• Identifying and developing new services for mental health
• Ensuring all non-medical therapeutic approaches are underpinned by a conceptual model, have an empirical evidence base, and that their effectiveness is measured.
• Ensuring that all members of the transdisciplinary team have access to and understanding of the concepts and principles underpinning framework and the specialised skills
• Working autonomously to provide a specialist psychology service to service users as agreed by Consultant Psychiatrist, Therapies Lead, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and in discussion with wider MDT

To be successful in this role you will need:

• A Doctoral Degree in Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychology
• Further training in at least one relevant specialist therapy
• UK HCPC Registration
• Knowledge of current national policies, legislation, and professional standards in practice.
• To be a chartered member of the BPS
• Post-doctoral level knowledge and application of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis

 What you will get:

• Annual salary of up to £70,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
•  Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.