Military Medical Personnel - Colchester,Essex - Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Colchester DCMH - 15 hours

Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Colchester DCMH - 15 hours

Ref: DHRG42001
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Start Date:01 Jul 2026

End Date:31 Aug 2026

Job Description:

• To provide a high quality, specialist, qualified Consultant Clinical/Counselling psychology service as an autonomous and independent practitioner within the defined service sector and as determined by the Head of Service, Defence Clinical Psychology Service (Hd DCPS).
• To provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service, at the same time as demonstrating clinical leadership, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to others, contributing to the provision of clinical supervision, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the relevant teams’ policies and procedures
• To maintain the highest standards of record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, activity returns and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance via supervision and continuous professional development.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the defined service sector and as agreed with Hd DCPS.
• To work with a range of professional groups within a multidisciplinary environment. Work may encompass joint assessments, individual outpatient work or a co-ordinated team approach to patient care.
• The post holder will be primarily based as agreed with the Head of Service but will also be expected to see clients at other locations, as appropriate. Such locations may vary from time-to-time dependent upon clinical and operational need and may include a requirement to attend DCPS business and in-house CPD events.
Essential requirements/ Qualifications/ Experience:
• Must be eligible for Graduate Membership of the BPS.
• Must have post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical/Counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Must have HCPC registration under Practitioner Psychologist domain.
• Must have a minimum of six years post-qualification experience working as a Clinical/Counselling psychologist within the designated specialty (Adult Mental Health).
• Must be able to evidence having been permanently employed for a minimum of two years at a Consultant grade.
• Must be able to evidence having carried out clinical research (either implementation or supervision).
• Must have evidence of delivery of teaching, training and clinical supervision.
• Must have evidence of having provided consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Must be in date and able to provide certification for Safeguarding children and Young People and Safeguarding Adults up to and including Level 3 training.

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