[ref. u26953101] Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

apartmentNHS Jobs placeAltrincham calendar_month 
The post-holder will be an active member of the Trafford Home Based Treatment Team, which is a multi-disciplinary team focused on supporting people experiencing mental health difficulties that are acute and severe, taking a recovery-focused approach to support people and their families and carers through a crisis, providing care and treatment interventions in the least restrictive environment and so providing an alternative to hospital admission when required and appropriate.
The role of the clinical psychologist in the team is to take a lead on providing a psychological service to people referred to the team, and to their families and carers, including completing psychological assessments, formulations and delivering brief psychological interventions focused on a compassionate, trauma-informed and psychologically-informed perspective of the development and maintenance of the current issues.
In addition to direct work with people under the care of the service, an important part of the clinical psychologists role will be to work with colleagues within the team to provide advice and support about understanding peoples difficulties and needs, informing care plans and treatment interventions.
This part of the role could include providing consultation and supervision to other staff members, delivering training sessions, facilitating team formulation and/ or reflective practice groups, completing reviews of case notes, liaison with other services and staff, informal discussions and attendance at team meetings.

The post-holder will play a key role in supporting the functioning of the team in order to support the recovery and well-being of people using the service.

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