Job Title: Principal Psychologist

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Permanent job

Salary: £55k per annum

Location: Enfield

Main Duties:

• To undertake specialist clinical duties contributing to assessment and treatment of patients.
• To provide Psychological Therapies for with personality disorder /mental disorder/intellectual disability and complex trauma, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of patients with complex presentations, formulating plans for treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based on appropriate analysis, interpretation, and integration of complex qualitative and quantitative data.
• To administer and interpret assessments of cognitive and emotional functioning as required and to assist the multi-disciplinary team in diagnosis, problem formulation and the planning/development of an appropriate treatment plan.
• To plan, implement, and evaluate individual and group treatments, informed by formulations of patients’ problems based on appropriate theoretical and therapeutic models and best practice guidelines.

Essential

• You will be registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist and preferably be BPS Chartered.
• You will have experience of and/or an interest in rehabilitation and the recovery of patients in a forensic setting.

Desirable

• To have clinical supervision training.
• To have training in two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• To have skills in individual and group work and in program planning.
• To have skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment to inform the psychological formulation and intervention.
• To have well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information

Blackstone Benefits:

✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant

✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs

✅Complete onboarding support

✅Informed tailored career advice

✅Personalised job alerts

✅Unlimited referral bonus

For further information on this role, please contact Bill Hageman at Blackstone Recruitment on (phone number removed) or APPLY now.