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Senior Clinical Psychologist

Would you like:

  • To work for an award-winning specialist healthcare company that is dedicated on improving and delivering services rather than delivering the same for less?
  • Outstanding personal development and CPD opportunities?
  • Flexibility that enables you to balance your work life and personal commitments?

If you answered yes to the above Vita Health Group is your perfect next employer!

 

The Role:

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our team to help support our IAPT and Step 4 mental health services by providing supervision, training to the staff team and managing a small clinical caseload. This role will appeal to individuals who like variety in their work and want to develop clinical leadership skills. Working remotely, the Senior Clinical Psychologist will be expected to work across IAPT and the Step 4 mental health service; they will spend some of their time supervising and training assistant psychologists who deliver group-based interventions within IAPT and autonomously managing a clinical caseload in our Step 4 Psychological Therapy Service (PTS). The Senior Clinical Psychologist will have the opportunity to shape existing service provision through training, audit, and creating and implementing service development initiatives. They will be part of a supportive and dynamic team and have access to regular CPD and supervision by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

 

Are you passionate about helping people improve their mental health, can you demonstrate?

  • Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Awareness of mental health service provision across primary secondary care settings
  • A desire to develop leadership competencies and experience
  • Training and experience in supervision
  • Clinical competency in the application of CBT
  • Experience of treating complex mental health presentations in adults
  • Experience of team working
  • Experience in delivering training
  • Excellent communication skills
  • IT skills - Microsoft Office/Patient record systems

 

To achieve our ultimate aim of making people better we recognise importance and benefits of investing in our team. We provide:

  • Focus of staff wellbeing through, events, staff events, wellbeing champions and initiatives
  • Flexible approach to working through remote and homeworking options (subject to service level requirements)
  • Day to day clinical support and leadership
  • Regular clinical supervision
  • Ongoing continual professional development opportunities
  • Individual CPD and development plans
  • A friendly and supportive work environment with an overall culture of energy, solution focus and excellence in both our service delivery and support to our team

 

The Company:

Vita Health Group is a leading UK healthcare provider with over 30 years’ experience delivering best in class physical and mental health services across corporate, NHS and private patients.

We comprise of three leading UK healthcare providers, each with their own great reputation within the healthcare industry; RehabWorks, Workplace Wellness and Crystal Palace Physio Group.

 

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

  • HCPC registered
  • Experience of training and supervising others
  • Competent in at least one therapeutic approach, such as CBT
  • Experience of treating complex mental health presentations in adults
  • MDT working
  • Experience of delivering training
  • Awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion

Desirable:

  • Experience of working in IAPT
  • Experience of working in secondary care psychological services
  • Trained in: Mentalisation-based Therapy (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT)
  • Experience of working across different services

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.  We work in partnership with the NHS, support the UK’s largest corporate companies to help assist their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of making people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view in full on our website.  To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.  To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.

We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

  • Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
  • Our status as a Disability Confident Committed Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
  • Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
  • Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
  • Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS2), Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
  • The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. 

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. 

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

    

Vita Health Group

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