Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 8a Specialist Psychological Therapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Specialist Psychological Therapist Pay Rate: £35 - £37 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Oldham

Contract Type: 6-month contract

Shift Pattern: Ideally 37.5 hours per week. However, Monday - Friday service within the hours of 09:00 am - 17:00 pm and flexibility of these hours would be considered. 

Benefits of working with us:

• Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
• Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
• Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Clinical Psychology roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
• Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
• Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer a Clinical Psychologist and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Clinical Psychologists you can refer.
• Professional Development: Working as a locum Clinical Psychologist provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.

Duties:

• Provide assessments for specialist psychological interventions/individual therapy based on complex data from a variety of sources to service users referred to the service
• Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams
• Developing and refining formulations across a range of clients and psychological models
• Manage a therapy caseload providing evidence based psychological therapies to service users seen within the service in line with targets agreed with the Service Manager
• Provide clinical supervision to therapist within the service in line with supervision policy and IAPT guidelines
• Work collaboratively with service users, families and the multidisciplinary team to communicate information concerning the assessment, including formulations and recommendations of treatment and management using methods of proven efficacy
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information maintaining accurate clinical records in the management of service users receiving psychological interventions including electronic data entry
• Organise and implement specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and training to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management of individual service users and provide general advice to other professionals on other aspects of risk assessment and management
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner to service users, carers and relevant professionals, information about assessments, formulations and treatment plans

Requirements of the Specialist Psychological Therapist:

• Psychologists must be registered and accredited members of the BACP. (Registered Member MBACP (Accred) or Registered Member MBACP (Snr Accred).)
• HCPC registration
• Recent experience working as a Psychological Therapist in the UK

Contact:

This Specialist Psychological Therapist job is advertised by Alex West; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from: Forensic Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist & Educational Psychologist as we have suitable positions for all of these. If you’re looking for Psychotherapist, Assistant Psychologist or other Mental Health roles we also have these type of vacancies available.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Psychologist role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.