Practitioner Psychologist

We Are With You, Stoke-upon-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent

Practitioner Psychologist

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We Are With You, Stoke-upon-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 9 Nov | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 136556da1aa343ee8ea2410584e7e77a

Full Job Description

Our Stoke Community Drug and Alcohol service are looking for a registered HCPC Practitioner Psychologist to join them in providing high-quality recovery care to a diverse client group. Your role will be to grow and support the team's ability to respond effectively to individuals' past trauma, help build motivation and develop resources to assist people to change the way they think, feel and behave., As a Practitioner Psychologist, you will join the service to support them in radically improving people's chances of recovering from the negative effects of substance use by directly offering effective, evidence-based psychological interventions and by supporting and supervising the service's frontline staff to improve the quality of their psychosocial interventions. As part of your role, you will hold a specialist caseload of service users with co-existing substance use and mental health needs, including trauma. You will liaise with referrers, GPs, and other professionals and multidisciplinary teams.

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health. At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online. We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year. We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support. We Are With You. #IND HP