About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic psychologist or psychotherapist interested in a personally rewarding and fulfilling role working with complex cases. You will be responsible for providing psychological therapy to clients across the Acute Care pathway in Basingstoke. The acute service at Parklands Hospital includes one male ward, one female ward, a 6-bed MOD (Military of Defence) ward and a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The Acute and Crisis Division comprises of practitioner psychologists and psychological therapists with expertise in a range of approaches (e.g. CBT, DBT, ACT, CFT and CAT).
You will join a team of supportive, innovative, creative and compassionate clinicians who are committed to providing trauma-informed care and a psychologically-minded MDT, committed to creating a culture supporting the recovery of adults with acute mental health difficulties. We work with a range of presentations including psychosis and trauma and relational difficulties. You will provide psychological assessment and therapy individually and support group programmes as well as offering consultation and training to staff in the team. Our psychological provision includes offering the Comprehend, Cope & Connect (CCC) approach.
We encourage applicants looking for preceptorship from Band 7 to 8a. We also welcome applications from unqualified practitioners who are nearing completing their training. Requests for part time and flexible working options will be considered.
Main duties of the job You will work as an autonomous practitioner, with your own clinical caseload, embedded within our clinical multi-professional team, and the psychological therapies team. You will provide psychological assessments and formulations, brief interventions, provide supervision, provide advice to colleagues, and contribute to the implementation of the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach. CCC is a therapeutic intervention which enables multi-professional colleagues to offer psychologically-informed support to adults with acute mental health difficulties. Multi-disciplinary team formulations are part of this post, which supports and enhances a psychologically-informed culture across the wards, and subsequent collaborative care planning. There will be opportunities to utilise research skills to contribute to service development. You will be part of a cohesive team with a strong focus on quality improvement, co-production, further training and career development, plus aligning with the core values of the Trust (i.e. compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence).
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
HPC registered Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist OR registration and accreditation in a recognised psychological therapy (e.g. BABCP, BACP, ACAT or UKCP) Experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist or psychotherapist
Desirable
Training in Comprehend, Cope and Connect, (CCC) Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience
Experience Essential
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan. Experience of neuropsychological and psychometric assessment
Desirable
Lived experience of mental health problems Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Parklands Hospital
Aldermaston Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9RH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)