Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Are you a Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist passionate about supporting young people and their families? We're currently looking for someone to join us full time at CAMHS Phoenix, based in Wokingham, and working Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm. CAMHS Phoenix is a specialist day care service for young people aged 12-18. We offer a range of intensive, multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at preventing, diagnosing, managing, and treating severe and enduring mental illness. We're seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate, and proactive professional to lead and oversee the delivery of high-quality, specialist psychological therapies for young people and their families accessing our Tier 4 Hospital at Home and Day Patient Mental Health services in Berkshire. Experience working within a CAMHS or Children's Service is helpful, but we welcome applications if you feel you have transferable skills. As the Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you'll play a key role in coordinating our psychological services, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, and teaching staff. You'll be involved in the full spectrum of care, from prevention to evidence-based treatment, and will be instrumental in helping young people and their families navigate complex mental health challenges. 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.,

• Provide a combination of direct service work and provision of consultation and supervision of professional colleagues within the clinical team, and across other sectors of care.
• Provide service developments as required to ensure patients receive the most appropriate interventions in a timely way to enable their recovery, balancing the most current research evidence, available resource, and understanding of local and national policy and objectives.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• Work autonomously within professional and local guidelines and policies and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
• Ensure robust risk assessments are completed for all activities off site and that each young person has an appropriate risk assessment for off-site activities in conjunction with the nursing team.
• Keep accurate and up to date documentation using RIO on participation in activities and any information relevant to the young person's presentation or identified concerns/risks.
• Attend the handovers and multi-disciplinary team meetings providing feedback on patients and participating in decision making.
  
  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.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish. Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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