Locum HCPC Practitioner Psychologist

Please note this role may appear with a location in the advert which is our head office. This is predominantly a remote role, and therefore suitable for applicants Nationwide.

This is a fixed term contract for(6-months initially, immediate start)

We may require you travel to our offices in York and London, and other locations within the UK (reimbursed through expenses) for team development days, staff training and other in-person events (approximately 2-3 days during this fixed term).

About our opportunity

As a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist you will supervise and support the assessment and interventions provided by Assistant Psychologists across various areas of Onebright’s delivery of services. You will also hold a small caseload and provide Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies to clients accessing our services through our vibrant Adult Psychological Therapies team at Onebright. You will be working with an articulate and interesting group of clients, who are motivated and engaging, to proactively support them in improving their mental health. Our practitioners work collaboratively with our clients to achieve the best treatment outcomes.

As a clinically led service with over 30 years’ experience, Onebright has helped organisations and individuals navigate the challenges of mental health and wellbeing in the UK. We are proud to be a trusted provider of evidence-based clinical assessments and treatments, delivering high-quality services to more than 60,000 people annually.

Our mission is to create a brighter tomorrow by providing easy access to personalised, life-changing mental health support. You would be integral to our mission.

Our vision is to be the specialist provider of mental health services for practitioners and clients. We’re driven by five core values which underpin our expertise delivering mental health support at scale.

1. We are client centred.
2. We support each other.
3. We are curious.
4. We are committed to quality care.
5. We lead with integrity and compassion.

Most of Onebright’s clients are professional working people. These include but are not limited to:

• Individuals and families with private medical insurance;
• front-line health care professionals (e.g., police, fire services, NHS staff); and
• corporate employees from sectors such as law, energy and finance.

Our clients typically present at the early stage of mental ill-health, are highly engaged, and motivated to improve. Presentations are typically subclinical to mild/moderate, with lower risk than what is found in stepped-care NHS services. You will spend less time on admin-heavy risk management and safeguarding protocols, and more time delivering therapy that works when compared to treatment as usual in the NHS. Our structured clinical assessments, provided by over 50 mental health nurses, manage safety into the clinical services. Our streamlined systems, with risk escalation, means you can focus on what you do best: helping people get better.

In this role you will also hold a small caseload and be working with adults accessing our services providing a specific number of client contacts per week. As an experienced practitioner you will treat a mixed caseload of sub-clinical and mild/moderate presentations.

You will:

• Support the Assistant Psychology team through expert consultations, provide clinical supervision and hold clinical oversight of work undertaken by Assistant Psychologists who are under your supervision.
• Be committed to placing the client at the centre of the service and everything that you do; providing evidence-based treatments as indicated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) – specifically Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and EMDR if trained to part 2.
• Treat clients who have a range of subclinical and mild to moderate anxiety and depression presentations and apply the principles of CBT to other mental health problems where clinically appropriate.
• Demonstrate integrity and compassion within our culture of ED&I practices in every aspect of the role, above and beyond ensuring adherence to legislative statutory guidance, and Onebright policies and procedures.

What we need from you

• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Minimum of five years’ mental health experience working in public/private healthcare, with a minimum of two of those years’ being post qualifying experience.
• Experience of supervising Assistant Psychologists and/or qualified mental health professionals.
• Have provided a minimum of 80 hours clinical supervision to others over the past two years as part of their clinical practice.

Desirable:

• Specialist clinical supervision training.
• Registration on the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice supervisors and/or BABCP Supervisor accreditation.
• Completion of a Post Graduate training course specifically in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies as a CBT Practitioner.

Please review the ‘Role Profile and Person Specification’ attached to this advert for more details on the essential and desirable criteria for this role.

More about Onebright

At Onebright, we offer a wide range of private psychological therapy and neurodevelopmental services. We treat adults, children and young people who experience emotional and psychological issues. We help individuals and organisations with mental health and wellbeing solutions, providing every person with the best mental healthcare, offering hope for a better future. We work across the mental health continuum from performance optimisation, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.

Our deep understanding of mental health and unrivalled clinical expertise enables us to support businesses from the first interaction with us through to recovery.

You can find out more about Onebright via our website - https://onebright.com/

Application process

Should you meet the essential criteria for this position please apply via the application link and please ensure the following is attached to your application

1. Copy of your CV.
2. A covering letter.
3. A supporting statement demonstrating how your experience meets the competencies outlined within the role profile using the following headings below, which are taken from the role profile:

1. Clinical
2. Clinical governance.
3. Facilitating teaching, training and supervision.
4. Organisational and administrative.
5. Personal and professional development.
6. Additional information (optional).

If you have any other relevant information that would be helpful to know in your application, please add this to point 6.

You will need to upload the covering letter and supporting statement as one document, under the section “Covering letter” as part of the application process.

How we say thank you

An exciting career is much more than just a salary. We also understand that everyone, regardless of culture, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, or disability status, can contribute to our goal to make our work better for all. Our strength is in our people. So, at Onebright we have a range of benefits that include:

• 26 days holiday with an option to purchase more through our holiday purchase scheme. Plus, bank holidays on top.
• When you need support, we rely on our excellent Employee Assistance Programme to help you with your wellbeing.
• A private company pension with Royal London enabling you to keep one eye on the future.
• Your development is critical to our success so giving you access to Continuous Professional Development is always available to you.
• A very useful cash plan to help with those unexpected health issues such as dentist, eye wear or prescriptions and much more.
• Rewards gateway giving you access to an endless list of little perks and savings with retailers.
• Learning new skills is important so accessing our Onebright Learning and Development platform will engage your enquiring mind.
• We encourage and reward our staff to “Refer Friends & Colleagues” with cash reward when they successfully join us.

At Onebright we like to go further. So, we want to ensure that once you get here, you’ll still be going places.

Information to help you in your application

• Onebright is committed to delivering in line with 'safer recruitment' principles and therefore the successful candidate will be required to undertake a credit check and a DBS check (Enhanced or Standard) with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the cost of which will be met by Onebright.
• Onebright is committed to adhering to the Equality Act 2010 and provides equal opportunities to all applicants, staff and clients. Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will organise appropriate support.
• Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK, and we will seek to complete a Right to Work check for all candidates.

If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact:

Dr. Glenn Mason, Head of Adult Psychological Therapies, glennmason@onebright.com or Dr. Helen Taylor, Clinical Lead, helentaylor@onebright.com