Senior Psychologist

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 client’s mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s 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.).