Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a permanent full-time Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to our core CAMHS team in East Riding. The team works with a range of presentations, including anxiety, low mood, self-harm, and trauma. It is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Creative Therapists, Family Therapists, CBT Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Administrators, and Support workers. Successful applicants will have access to regular supervision and support from experienced Clinical Psychologists working within the service.
This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to transformational work with the vision of becoming trauma-informed, and work being undertaken by the wider children’s mental health, developmental, and learning disability services around care pathways. We also have a strong focus on evidence-based practice and the use of routine outcome measures. There is a commitment to ongoing staff training to enable practitioners to have accredited therapeutic and supervisory skills. We are also working towards having more participation from young people and their families in directing service development.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service to clients of a particular service area, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions and practice.
2. To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists, and Band 7 psychologists, when needed, and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training, and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.
3. To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice regarding service development and implementation of highly specialist psychological interventions, and the delivery of quality care in collaboration with service users, staff, managers, and other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas.
4. To support the MDT with complex case formulation and consultation and service developments in line with Trauma Informed Care.
5. To utilise research skills by contributing to the initiation and coordination of audit and research within the relative service area.
6. There will be a requirement to provide a service between 8.00 am – 6.00 pm over a 5-day Monday – Friday period, to meet the needs of children and young people and service delivery. This may be subject to change depending on service need.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East, and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home, including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Minimum Requirements
* Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
* Completed Supervision Training.
* Previous CAMHS experience.
* Additional Training in therapeutic approaches.
Skills and Competencies
* Demonstrate alignment to the behavioural standards of the Trust.
* Able to work under the guidance of the policies and procedures and maintain the required mandatory training.
* Able to work as an effective and flexible member of a team.
* Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and advocate for patients that may experience complex needs.
Knowledge
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical and service area.
* Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within the identified clinical area.
* Skills in coordinating programmes of care and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology and application of this to research and development activity within the service area.
* Evidence of policy implementation and development.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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