Employer: Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Cringleford Business Centre
Town: Cringleford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/01/2025
Just One Number 0-25 Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people?
Are you experienced in offering supervision to a variety of clinical and skill mix staff?
Do you have the knowledge and skills to help expand our services that work with children and young people?
We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Psychologist to join us, supporting our mental health advice, support and access team within Just One Number, our single point of access.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder will oversee, monitor, mentor and lead on the CAPs day to day work and progression in the workplace. This will include oversight of any triage or Single Session Interventions.
2. Provide and lead clinical group and individual supervision to the Clinical Associate Psychologists in Just One Number as per training programme requirements, working closely with UEA to support the curriculum development and requirements of implementing the CAP workforce/ trainee clinical psychologists.
3. To co-lead on supervision and support to the wider Just One Number advice, support and access team through group and individual supervision.
4. To provide advice, support and consultation in matters relating to infant, child or Young Person’s Mental Health, to the Just One Number team.
5. To provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, parents/carers and other professionals. Preparing, delivering and overseeing staff training, in order to improve the delivery of evidence-based interventions.
6. To work alongside the Just One Number Clinical Lead to lead the mental health front door.
7. To support the team to assist families through a range of methods including text message, virtual and phone contacts to assess the needs of children and young people.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Clinical Psychology Doctoral or Certificate of equivalence
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Post-doctoral qualification in relevant therapeutic approaches
Experience
* Clinical experience in children and young people’s mental health.
* Experience in providing supervision and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues.
* Demonstrate experience of implementing specialist clinical practice and knowledge and demonstrating effect on clinical outcomes.
* Undertaking a clinical role at a specialist level including multidisciplinary working, safeguarding, undertaking complex assessments, planning and evaluating care packages, and responsibility for the management of a caseload.
* Understanding of education pathways for professional development.
* Understanding of the CAPS role.
Skills
* Assessment, signposting, advice and limited / brief intervention skills.
* Ability to analyse and interpret data and information in order to make decisions, provide reports, make recommendations and changes.
* Ability to provide clinical supervision to a range of practitioners.
Certificate of Sponsorship
For roles that are eligible for sponsorship, applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker Visa to work in the UK are welcome, and will be considered alongside all other applications.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
For roles that require professional registration, applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Our safe recruitment pre-employment checks are undertaken before an appointment is confirmed and may include a DBS check. Where the role requires you to drive, we'll ask you to validate your driving licence online via the DVLA.
In submitting an application, you authorise Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE will be via the e-mail address on your application form. If you have not been invited to interview within 2 weeks of the closing date, you unfortunately haven’t been successful on this occasion, but keep an eye on our vacancies as a job that’s just right for you may appear!
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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