Specialist Mental Health Practitioner or Psychological Therapist

You will be welcomed by an established, nationally accredited multi-disciplinary team which includes dedicated Peer specialists which is expanding to develop the service to meet the Perinatal Long Term Plan ambitions. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues committed to providing care for women, their partners, and their infants to enable them to live their best life.

To work as an autonomous, independent practitioner responsible for own work and intervention and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies in providing a highly specialist Applied or Clinical Psychology service.

You will have access to training and regular supervision to enable you to achieve your full potential as a specialist clinician. We are an enthusiastic, committed and developing psychological team within the Perinatal service. We have developed good supervision structures to ensure best practices with access to peer supervision, and access to supervision . We are an enthusiastic team of psychologist with a drive to ensure that psychological approaches are at the heart of the service through formulation, joint working, individual and group interventions in addition through delivering supervision and consultation to perinatal practitioners.

Main duties of the job

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To provide psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To support risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management

To plan and prioritise their own patient workload, which will include taking full responsibility for organising referrals, managing their own waiting list, undertaking patients consultations, attending MDT reviews for those on their case load and other meetings as appropriate

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.