Exciting times! Our psychology team is expanding, and we are excited to welcome another Clinical Psychologist to our dynamic Lincoln Core CAMHS team.
We are looking for candidates who share our values related to creative and critical thinking, holistic patient-centred care, integrated working and providing evidence-based interventions in a compassionate way.
We have an 8a position available, which we are also offering as a preceptorship (from Band 7-8a). You will receive the clinical supervision and training required to meet the needs of this role and we welcome final year clinical psychology applicants and those recently qualified. You will be able to claim mileage costs from Lincoln CAMHS base.
You will have the opportunity to complete additional training, which includes Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Our psychology team provides consultation, training, and clinical supervision to professionals based in health and social care. Psychologists in the Lincoln CORE team also provide specialist assessment and intervention to children/young people and their families.
You will provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families who are referred to the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (LPFT CAMHS).
You will assist with the provision of CAMHS from 9am-5pm Mon to Friday and may also be required to work one evening a week up to 8pm depending on service need.
You will be expected to be able to engage with and work effectively with vulnerable young people and their carers, including Looked After Children, children and young people with mild to severe Learning Disabilities, and young people who are/have been in contact with the Youth Justice Service. You will be able to support and advise CAMHS colleagues in the provision of therapy to these young people.
You will have specialist training and experience and will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines as well as liaise closely with other professionals and volunteers who work with children and young people and their carers and families. You will provide supervision to less experienced psychologists and consultation to other professionals.
You will provide regular placements to trainee clinical psychologists and will use your research skills to undertake research and development and audit activities.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall.
In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT core CAMHS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.
To develop and provide a range of specialist clinical psychology assessments and interventions either as the sole clinician or in conjunction with other CAMHS colleagues; with other staff and agencies responsible for providing services to children and young people and their carers and families.
To act as case coordinator/lead professional where appropriate. To develop and provide a range of specialist clinical psychology assessments and interventions to vulnerable children and young people including Looked After Children; children and young people who have mild to severe Learning Disabilities; children who are at risk of contact with, or who have contact with, the Youth Justice Service.
To provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who have been the victims of sexual abuse.
To provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who are presenting with sexually concerning behaviours.
To provide specialist developmental assessments, including cognitive assessments, to help understand underlying learning difficulties which may be impacting on a child’s/young person's functioning.
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