Band 8a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist

Would you like to work alongside friendly, enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in Adult Community Mental Health in beautiful Derbyshire in Buxton ?

We are looking for a Counselling or Clinical Psychologist, Band 8a, who we would like to support to progress in their career. We will provide relocation costs for the right candidate.

Our team of Psychologists & Psychological therapists are passionate about developing services that create meaningful change based on lived experience, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations.

This permanent role can be offered as a part-time opportunity. We can offer a variety of flexible working options and welcome opportunities to work into other localities and specialisms.

We warmly welcome enquiries for a chat about the options and your interests.

Join our friendly Division of Psychology and Psychological Therapies (DPPT) at a truly exciting transformational time for us with our focus on ‘Living Well’ Community Mental Health Framework changes and trauma-informed care in our CMHTs. Together, these developments have collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at the core and DPPT Services have a pivotal role.

You will provide individual & group clinical work with your colleagues,  promoting psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development.

We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, eg, by access to training to support work with complex trauma & offer specialist supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups for DBT, CFT, complex dissociation, Psychodynamic, CAT, CBT or EMDR. We are strongly committed to research, there are many opportunities in our newly formed Division.

Join our Psychology Services   and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’. CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.” Our team reports feeling valued and supported working in services focused on staff well-being and service transformation.

To support career progression, we offer leadership and project management training:

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Benefits include: