Employer: Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Nicholas house
Town: Scunthorpe
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Principal Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced clinical psychologist to join Rotherham, Doncaster and North Lincolnshire NHS Trust. We are keen to develop our clinical psychology service in order to provide the highest level of evidenced based care to children and young people accessing the service.
RDASH offers a multidisciplinary assessment and intervention service to children and young people up to the age of 18. Clinicians appointed to these psychology posts will offer a specialist clinical psychology input. This will allow the post holders an exciting and varied opportunity to provide, and further develop their skills across, a range of specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions. Additional post-qualification training in a therapeutic approach would be highly desirable.
The posts can be appointed to flexibly dependent on experience and would be suitable for newly qualified clinicians, those looking for career development opportunities, or those already well-established at the principal psychologist grade. Regular supervision will be offered from within the psychology team and we actively support opportunities for CPD.
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber Trust has a thriving and active network of clinical psychologists who meet on a regular basis to ensure professional connectedness and development.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a clinical psychologist with excellent clinical skills, and a passion for working with children and young people with a broad range of mental health needs across the lifespan. The successful candidate will have a strong drive to work collaboratively as part of the getting advice and getting help teams to enhance formulations, care plans and specialised intervention work. They will be committed to the principles of recovery, have effective interpersonal and time management skills, as well as being a responsive and motivated team player.
We have a strong and thriving community of clinical psychologists and psychological therapists within our children's mental health teams. We are strongly invested in supporting staff development through further training opportunities and there is a strong focus on quality supervision provided by our Consultant Clinical Psychologists but also specialist supervision groups for supporting clinical practice within particular models of practice including EMDR and CAT.
Working for our organisation
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employs around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical /counselling/forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Additional leadership training
We welcome applications from individuals who may require sponsorship [if eligible] under the skilled worker or health & care visa route. Please note, not all vacancies are eligible for sponsorship.
Before applying, you can make a self-assessment of potential eligibility for sponsorship using the criteria for the skilled worker visa under the UK’s point’s based immigration system here: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
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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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