Service-based Consultant Psychologist
Allowances: £4,072.06 Inner London Weighting (pro rata for part time)
Scale: CGL scale 64 to 70 (pro rata)
Location: covering a service – Newham
Based from a local delivery hub – Beckton RoadContracted Hours – part time 22.5 hours
Category – Clinical/Managerial
Type of contract – 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Believe in People?
The best people have one thing in common.
They care.
At Change Grow Live we care deeply about social justice and the work that we do. If you do too and you have the necessary experience and passion for this post, we encourage you to apply for this innovative leadership position. We are looking for a registered Psychologist who has the appropriate competencies and experience to lead our services.
You will already be working at Consultant level or be ready to take this step. You will come from a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist background and have experience of working at a Band C (NHS) equivalent level to provide regional leadership of services and people – for the area advertised.In this role you will develop our psychology services and psychosocial interventions offer to support people experiencing difficulties associated with drug and alcohol use.
We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.
You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions, contributing to supporting recovery and are detailed within our Job Descriptions.
This is a very exciting time for the organisation and Psychology within it, we will need you to see the bigger picture and support us to adapt our models to meet people’s needs. For you to bring your very best to this role you will need to be an open-minded leader of Psychology and Psychological Therapies.
You will be joining a brilliant national team of Psychologists and qualified counsellors; we also have a range of highly committed and passionate staff who deliver psychosocial interventions – whether on a 1-1 basis or in groups. Monthly clinical supervision will be from our Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, or their designated leads.Our teams are vibrant, diverse, and multidisciplinary – you would be starting in a good place!
If you are compassionate, authentic, inspiring and you want to make a difference, working in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to achieve the best for people, we would encourage you to read our job description.
Please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria on your application as this will be used in the shortlisting process.