Psychological Therapist

We are recruiting for a Psychological Therapist who wishes to join the Community Mental Health Team on the Isle of Wight for a fixed term ending April 2025. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".

The post holder will join other Psychologists and Psychological Therapists in providing assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions, and consultation using a range of therapeutic approaches including CBT, DBT and EMDR.

The post holder will have opportunities to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research. The post holder will be expected to carry out psychometric assessments and provide specialist advice as appropriate.

The successful candidate will supervise, and support assessment and therapy provided by other therapists as appropriate and other clinical members of the team who provide care and treatment. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of CBT practice within the service.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The post holder will join other Psychologists and Psychological Therapists in providing assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions, and consultation using a range of therapeutic approaches including CBT, DBT and EMDR.

The post holder will supervise, and support assessment and therapy provided by other therapists as appropriate and other clinical members of the team who provide care and treatment. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of CBT practice within the service.

The post holder will have opportunities to utilise skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

The post holder will be expected to carry out psychometric assessments and provide specialist advice as appropriate.

The post holder will offer advice and consultation on service user's psychological care to non-psychological therapy colleagues, as well as to other non-professional carers and workers of other agencies where appropriate. They will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team and Trust's policies and procedures., We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process., A BPS accredited and HCPC approved Doctorate in Clinical Psychology PLUS registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC., Training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, related to serious mental illness.

A post graduate qualification with highly specialist experience, professional development and courses / structured self-study PLUS a post graduate diploma in specialist psychological therapy (ie, DBT or CBT), and extensive experience of delivering the therapy AND Accreditation by the relevant body depending on the therapy (DBT or CBT), Extensive experience of holding high levels of clinical risk and clinically supervising others working with people with highly risky, complex and challenging mental health problems across a range of settings.

Extensive experience of working with people with a range of severe and enduring mental health difficulties including personality disorder, psychosis, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders.

Experience of working with a wide variety of people, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community primary care, in-patients and residential care settings severity including 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 exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for people's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan.

Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision., Experience of representing psychology with the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Experience of assessing and treating people across the full range of care settings.

Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, combining the expertise and services of multiple NHS providers to deliver high-quality healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With a dedicated workforce exceeding 12,000 staff and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we offer an extensive range of services, including mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health care, reaching diverse communities across urban, rural, and coastal areas.

We are committed to delivering care with compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, ensuring that our patients and service users are at the heart of everything we do. By working closely with our partners, we're creating a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that champions staff development, well-being, and collaboration.

Join us and be part of an organisation dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare; where your skills and ambitions can make a real difference to the communities we serve, now and in the future.

£46148.00 to £52809.00 Yearly