Counselling or Clinical Psychologist Band 7 Preceptorship / Band 8a

Would you like to work alongside other friendly, enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in Adult Community Mental Health in beautiful Derbyshire in Buxton?

We are looking for a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist, Band 7 or 8a, who we would like to support to progress in their career. We will provide relocation costs for the right candidate. Our team of Psychologists & Psychological therapists are passionate about developing services that create meaningful change based on lived experience, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations.

Join our friendly Division of Psychology and Psychological Therapies (DPPT) at a truly exciting transformational time for us with our focus on 'Living Well' Community Mental Health Framework and trauma-informed care. Together, these developments have collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at the core and DPPT Services have a pivotal role.

You will provide individual & group clinical work with your colleagues, promoting psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development.

We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, eg, by access to training to support work with complex trauma & offer specialist supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups for DBT, CFT, complex dissociation, Psychodynamic, CAT, CBT or EMDR. We are strongly committed to research, there are many opportunities in our year-old Division., You will be based in High Peak Living Well Community Mental Health Team at Buxton. Please note we have a forward-thinking Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in this CMHT who is an Approved Clinician and developing new ways of working with long-term service users - these people have traditionally been under Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics - and she would be part of your support network. New care pathways are developing.

You will be joining a dynamic group of over 250 staff in our Division of Psychology & Psychological Therapies at a time of exciting, innovative and values-based transformation for place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.

This permanent role is offered as a part-time opportunity but could be full-time, potentially. We can offer a variety of flexible working options and welcome opportunities to work into other localities and specialisms.