Job Summary
We are recruiting to one of our 8a clinical psychology posts within our welcoming and busy CAMHS team. The post is substantive and full-time but we are happy to consider applications for part-time hours. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team where we prioritise supervision and opportunities for professional development. We would want to build on the strengths of the successful applicant in relation to therapeutic modalities and opportunities for service development where possible. Clinical psychology is well integrated and highly valued both within the Rochdale team and within the CAMHS care hub across Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. We work closely through the care hub Psychological Therapies workstream to share best practice and to continue to develop excellence in our work with children and families, including clinical research. This post is based with CAMHS at the Birch Hill Hospital site, but clinical appointments may also be offered at a range of sites across the borough (Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale).
Main Duties of the Job
As a member of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, the post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, including for children who may also have a neurodevelopmental condition. The post-holder will develop and implement psychological therapeutic plans of care with children, young people and their families based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their difficulties, and will offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities. The post-holder will also provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals, and contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to benefit all clients of the service, potentially impacting across all settings and agencies serving the client group. The post-holder will provide supervision to some qualified and pre-qualified staff. The post will include working as part of the duty team on a rota basis, although as the service currently operates with a defined duty team, duty responsibilities are kept to a minimum.
There will be opportunities for the post-holder to take a lead on a clinical pathway or area of service delivery in line with their experience and interests, and to contribute to service development, which may require use of research skills for audit and policy development.
About Us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Job Responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
1. Post graduate doctoral training in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS
2. HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable
1. Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
1. Experience of working with children and young people with a full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse etc.
2. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within multi-disciplinary care plans.
3. Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision
Desirable
1. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Knowledge
Essential
1. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
2. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health.
3. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
4. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
1. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
2. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
3. Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr