Specialist or Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking to recruit a permanent Band 7 Applied Psychologist or Band 8a Highly Specialist Psychologist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team in Middlesbrough. The successful candidate will join a supportive and collaborative multi-disciplinary team, leading on and delivering psychological assessments, formulations and therapies within the Getting More Help CAMHS Team in Middlesbrough.
Applicants should ideally have experience in working within CAMHS and show strong patient-centred values. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering excellent mental health care and evidence-based interventions.
The post holder will have a key role in providing both psychological assessments and psychological therapy.
This post is open to candidates who are either already meeting the essential criteria for a Band 8a Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist, or those who meet the essential criteria for a Band 7 Specialist Applied Psychologist who would be interested in undertaking this as a developmental post with a supportive plan for development and progression in due course.
Main duties of the job
In addition to direct clinical work, providing clinical supervision to other team members regarding patients is an important element of the role.
The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulation and therapies with individuals, families and teams as part of an MDT approach. Alongside direct clinical work, providing consultation, training and where required clinical supervision to other team members and trainee and assistant psychologists are all integral parts of the role.
As a senior member of the team, the post holder will be expected to demonstrate good leadership skills in supporting MDT colleagues to work psychologically and use person-centred principles across their work. This includes supervision, advice, consultation and training. The post holder will work within a compassionate, collective leadership approach and will be a key member of the leadership within the team. This is a role where innovation and engagement in research and development activity is actively encouraged.
About us
The successful candidate will benefit from being part of a larger group of Psychologists across other TEWV Trust services. We encourage opportunities to undertake service development activities.
We have strong links to the local Doctoral Programmes in Clinical Psychology at Teesside and Hull Universities and the Doctoral Programme in Counselling Psychology at York St John University. There are excellent opportunities for peer support/supervision, CPD, teaching/training, research, and audit.
We are also very keen to support practitioners obtain further professional training if required, dependent on service need, which might include training such as EMDR, Flash EMDR, CAT, PBS, Systemic Family Therapy, etc.
We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with a workforce of over 5,700 staff operating from over one hundred sites in Durham, Teesside and across York and North Yorkshire. Locally, we have close links with psychological professionals working across Mental Health Services across the Care Group, as well as across other areas and specialties. Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be able to transport themselves independently between sites and to visits.
Job responsibilities
Please find the attached job description and person specifications which outline the main duties and responsibilities of the role and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this, we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy's Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.
We welcome applications from staff who are currently coming to the end of their training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology that on successful completion will achieve the required qualification and registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
Trainee counselling psychologists are eligible to apply for and to be shortlisted for interview and to be offered qualified posts when they are in their 3rd year of the doctoral training and have the following confirmed as completed by the university: a. All clinical competencies. b. 80% of the 450 supervised clinical practice hours (360 hours).
Trainee clinical psychologists are eligible to apply for and to be shortlisted for interview and to be offered qualified posts when they are in their third year of training, as they will have completed their core clinical competencies by this stage of the course.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice - Band 8a
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical/counselling/forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees for 8a
* Registration with BPS
* Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
Experience
* Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings or if applying at Band 7, experience of working within mental health
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
Knowledge / Skills
* Risk assessment and risk management
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Ability to communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively to a wide range of people
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £60,504 a year (pro rata), per annum
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