Senior Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) Specified Purpose, Part-time (17.5 Hours per week)
Responsibilities:
- To provide a range of specialist psychology services for clients and family members including: comprehensive assessment; intervention that includes a range of modalities and therapy models (e.g., CBTe, DBT, CBT, etc); report writing; psychological programme implementation; outcome measurement; and review of effectiveness and service user satisfaction.
- To lead in developing treatment pathways which ensure client access to psychology time.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients difficulties, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- To work as a member of a multidisciplinary team providing an integrated and co-ordinated service to adolescents and their families, and to contribute to the integrated care plans.
Essential Qualifications:
- Clinical/Counselling Psychology qualification (min. PhD) as accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland and Dept. of Health.
- Post qualification experience of working with adolescents & families across service settings and agencies.
- Experience of managing own workload and responding to demand for psychology within a busy MDT.
- Highly developed, in-depth knowledge & experience of specialist therapeutic interventions with the client group, including at least two subspecialty areas, (e.g., CBTe, DBT, CFTe, etc.).
