Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and dynamic Senior Applied Psychologist who enjoys working collaboratively and interacting with other multi-agency partners to support the mental health needs of children, young people and their families. We have a full-time vacancy in our multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Walsall team with the opportunity to deliver high quality and innovative psychological solutions with children, young people and their families who experience difficulties with mental health. The post holder will join our innovative multi-disciplinary Team in Walsall CAMHS where a wide range of therapeutic interventions are offered to children and young people aged 0-18 and their families. We have close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments and individual and group interventions and other tasks.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will be:
* Passionate about working with the children and young people seen in our community CAMH services.
* Collaborative in their approach to working with children, young people, their families/carers and networks.
* Excited about the opportunity to contribute to service developments.
* Keen to maximize what psychologists can deliver whilst also working with, and recognising the strengths of, the multi-disciplinary team.
* Able to consider providing child specialty placements to the local Doctorate Psychology Courses.
About us
We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment. The team is one of four CAMHS teams in the Trust and is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of a broad spectrum of disciplines and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working.
The service offers direct therapeutic work in the form of individual therapy, group work and parent workshops as well as consultation and training to professionals. The service has a comprehensive delivery model with care pathways for a wide range of mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety, trauma, functional and somatic symptoms, self-harming behaviours and challenging behaviours. Some of our young people will also have co-occurring Intellectual Disabilities, physical health conditions and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Walsall CAMHS is one of four CAMHS teams across the Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. There is a monthly CPD training event offered to all CAMHS practitioners across the Division and an opportunity to attend case discussions and reflective practice within the team. CPD and training is recognised as an important part of professional development and this is considered in a yearly appraisal. There is also a Divisional Professional Lead for Psychology.
Job responsibilities
Duties of the post are varied and focus on the diversity of skill that Applied Psychologists hold.
The Service recognises the importance of receiving regular supervision and of Continued Professional Development and actively supports your training and study. We are committed to staff development through shared learning, training and peer supervision. We have excellent access to leadership training.
For a full description please see the Job Description.
Main Duties/Responsibilities
* Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to children, young people and their families with highly complex mental health difficulties which may include challenging behaviours.
* To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
* To promote at all times a positive image of mental health difficulties.
* To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
* In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:
* Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists.
* Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development.
* Provide leadership in service audit and development.
* Provide leadership in service evaluation and research.
* Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change.
Person Specification
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* HCPC registration as An Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status.
* Working as a qualified applied psychologist within a CAMHS service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
* Knowledge of clinical governance.
* Knowledge of Risk assessment and risk management.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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