Psychologist - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Skills/ExperienceEssential

• Literate in IT/ComputerSkills
• Good oral communication skills based onfluency on the English Language
• Skills in theuse of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention andmanagement frequently requiring sustained and intenseconcentration.
• Well developed skills in theability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex,highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information toclients, their families, carers and other professional colleaguesboth within and outside the NHS
• Skills inproviding consultation to other professional and non-professionalgroups
• Experience of specialist psychologicalassessment and treatment of clients across the full range of caresettings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with awide variety of client groups, across the whole life coursepresenting problems that reflect the full range of clinicalseverity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism inthe face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuseand the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstratefurther specialist training/experience through having received aminimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a qualifiedclinical/counselling psychologist in Adult Mental Health settingsover a minimum of 18 months.OR2 years post qualification experiencein a mental health setting as a Family & SystemicPsychotherapist/Psychological Therapist
• Abilityto teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-mediamaterials suitable for presentations within public, professionaland academic settings.
• Ability to identify andemploy mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to supportand maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure tohighly emotive material and challengingbehaviour