South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
The post is for 37.5 hours a week and flexible working can be discussed.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Calderdale CAMHS Team and Children’s Therapeutic Service (CTS). If an applicant has had previous experience in CAMHS and with children who are looked after, we are willing to consider a Band 7 to Band 8a progression post.
The post holder will support both teams with psychological assessments, formulations, and consultations. Due to the post supporting two teams, there are opportunities to develop the post to improve pathways for children who are looked after.
There are opportunities within the team to be involved with Neurodevelopmental assessments and we are open to discussing specialist interests with any potential applicants which may be beneficial for the service.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
1. To offer psychological assessment to children and young people who have multiple needs to assist with identifying appropriate therapeutic intervention and support through formulation.
2. To lead consultations to professionals involved with a child or young person's care and support the system with understanding the needs of the child, young person, and system through formulation.
3. To support both teams with adapting support and therapeutic interventions offered to children and young people.
4. To offer clinical supervision to staff and to support training placements to the clinical psychology doctorate programme.
5. To lead reflective discussions within the service to support learning and development.
6. To undertake and assist others with risk assessments to inform decision making.
7. To participate and lead multi-disciplinary team meetings and discussions.
8. To offer 1:1 therapeutic intervention to children, young people, and their parents/carers.
9. To support and lead pathway and service development within the Core CAMHS team.
10. To develop group work and to support others with delivery of groups.
11. To be involved with research within the Trust.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health, and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families, and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups; we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical, and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
The post holder will provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
1. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
2. Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and Trust’s policies and procedures.
3. Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees, and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
4. Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research within the areas served by the team/service.
5. Offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being of service users.
6. Provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists, and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.
7. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe, and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation, and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family, and/or carers.
8. Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence-based practice across a full range of care settings.
9. Establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being.
10. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
11. Work jointly with other team members and professionals in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to service users and, where appropriate, their families/carers.
12. Follow appropriate local Safeguarding Adults and Children policies in all clinical work, including close liaison with all relevant agencies.
13. Provide specialist risk assessment of, and intervention to, service users who may present in local acute settings in line with agreed procedures.
14. Liaise and consult with the wider professional network in the care of service users, offering consultation and supervision where necessary.
15. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychological interventions and autonomously manage a caseload of clients.
16. Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, the settings in which they present, and agencies involved in the psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being.
17. Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and effectively evaluate progress.
18. Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post.
* HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
* Show respect and treat people with dignity.
* Be able to give bad news sensitively.
* Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
* Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of group work.
Special Knowledge and Skills
* Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
* Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees.
* Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal, and written modes.
* Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance.
* Ability to formulate complex processes.
* Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* Manual Dexterity for conducting tests.
* Working with people in crisis.
* Working on an inpatient Psychiatric ward.
Physical Attributes
* Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
* A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Training
* Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
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.
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