Job summary
Service/Ward/Department Summary:
Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children's Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and as a locality well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are fully committed to supporting our staff in their development with great access to CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to an in-house training programme covering key areas of clinical practice as part of your induction.
We are extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. This is a really exciting time to become part of our service, as we are steadily expanding our offer. As such we are delighted to be actively seeking to recruit a new clinical psychologist who will be joining our already well established, highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop. You will join a well-established team of over 10 clinical psychologists with expertise in a wide range of clinical areas in CAMHS where you will be well supported in your own development.
If you think you might be interested in this post, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to core CAMHS and specialist LD/ND CAMHS pathways. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team over time. To contribute to the provision of risk assessment and management as part of the core CAMHS duty offer. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.
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#PennineCarePeopleand 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.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
* Access to Continued Professional Development
* Involvement in improvement and research activities
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Summary:
We currently very excited to be looking to recruit a 1.0 WTE 8a (or band 7 preceptorship into 8a) Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist into our service.
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a post based within our Core CAMHS service, with some specialist time inputting into our CAMHS Learning Disability and / or Neurodevelopmental Pathways too, and to receive regular, specialist clinical supervision from senior clinical psychologists with expertise across all areas.
As well as those with some post-qualification experience interested in an 8a post, we would also be keen to hear from applicants who would be interested in a preceptorship post starting on a band 7 with a move to 8a after a period of experience and development. This would suit newly or recently qualified clinical psychologists.
Person Specification
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Registration with BPS HCPC Registered
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a specialist level. Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings 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. Experience of working with families and carers. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Desirable
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Pennine Care NHS FT
Address
Springleigh Clinic
Waterloo Road
Stalybridge
SK15 2AU
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