Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Family Therapist
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
South Staffordshire CAMHS are developing our psychological professions workforce.
A Principal Psychological Professional (AfC Band 8b) post is available for our CAMHS west teams to work alongside an existing post across our CAMHS east teams. Both posts relate to a Consultant Psychological Professional for CAMHS.
We would be happy to receive applications from suitably qualified and experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologists or Family & Systemic Psychotherapists. Registration with a professional body is required (HCPC practitioner psychologist or appropriate section of the UKCP).
The post is part-time (30 hours) and is clinically based in our Cannock CAMHS Team (WS11 4NJ). Staff can request flexible working opportunities; please note that the current working hours for CAMHS clinics are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
We value staff who are creative, and we welcome new and improved processes and ideas. The service has a strong commitment to professional development, and we want to nurture clinicians in their career longer term.
Key responsibilities:
* Highly specialist clinical caseload
* Providing highly specialist advice, clinical supervision and training to colleagues and trainees across designated localities and to other healthcare professionals as required.
* Offering delegated clinical leadership in the continual development and provision of excellence across the service.
* Utilising Research & QI skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Main duties of the job
Role requirements:
An overarching leadership role in supporting psychological practice across CAMHS: The post-holder will work alongside a peer Principal Psychological Professional and the Consultant Psychological Professional for CAMHS to support the governance of psychological practice across our core CAMHS teams in South Staffordshire.
Profession-specific leadership and support: The post-holder will provide clinical and/or professional supervision to staff from within their own core profession. We currently have three qualified Family Therapists and two Trainee Family Therapists, alongside staff with systemic trainings (NVR, SFP, and Intermediate Family Therapy). We have six senior Clinical Psychologist posts in CAMHS with staff having a variety of special interests such as Family Therapy, DDP, CBT and CAT. The wider workforce also provides psychological services including EMDR therapy and DBT-informed work.
Highly specialist clinical work: The post-holder will be clinically based within the Cannock CAMHS team. The post-holder will hold a caseload of suitable complexity and will not be expected to provide initial assessments or core duty cover. For Family Therapy applicants, there is the potential to develop a tertiary clinic with colleagues based across our 5 CAMHS teams.
Qualifications and training:
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Or,
Post-graduate qualification via a relevant core CAMHS mental health/social welfare professional training as recognised by AFT followed by post-qualification CAMHS experience and completion of a Masters level qualification in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy as accredited by AFT.
And,
Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of psychological professionals in training such as Doctorate-level Trainee Psychologists or MSc-level Family Therapy Trainees.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
Working as a registered Practitioner Psychologist or Family Therapist within specialist CAMHS and also experience of the full range of clinical severity of mental health needs across a range of care settings.
Experience of providing clinical consultation services to other professional staff.
Teaching, training, and clinical supervision of pre-qualified and trainee psychologists or trainee Family Therapists including field supervision of research theses.
Experience of Research, Audit and Quality Improvement activities in psychological practice.
Please see the attached documents for the full Job Description and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant knowledge, skills and experience for this post.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registration with appropriate regulatory body/organisation: HCPC or appropriate section of UKCP.
* Evidence of continuing relevant professional development sufficient to ensure continued professional registration. To include ongoing CPD in relation to CAMHS specialty clinical delivery.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of psychological professionals in training such as Doctorate-level Trainee Psychologists or MSc-level Family Therapy Trainees.
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Post registration qualification/registration in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice (e.g. neuropsychology, trauma, attachment) as required for specific clinical post.
* Leadership development training and/or qualification.
Experience
* Working as a registered Practitioner Psychologist or Family Therapist both within the designated service area and also with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings (in-patient and outpatient settings, community, primary care inpatient and residential settings).
* Experience of working in specialist CYP mental health provision which includes multi-disciplinary working.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator.
* Experience of providing clinical consultation services to other professional staff.
* Experience of working in the NHS and/or publicly funded health or care settings.
* Experience of working collaboratively with CYP and their families/carers and professional network.
* Teaching, training, and clinical supervision of pre-qualified and trainee psychologists or Family Therapists including field supervision of research theses.
* Quality and Assurance Governance issues.
* Research, Audit, Quality Improvement and/or Development activities.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
* Demonstrate skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management and their application in a CYP mental health setting.
* Evidence-based practice relevant to the role.
* Application of psychological understanding, formulation and intervention across therapeutic modalities and within clinical, multi-disciplinary and service level working.
* Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people.
* Adapt evidence based interventions creatively for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
* Demonstrate skills in providing liaison, consultation and clinical supervision to other professionals and non-professional groups in health and non-health settings.
* Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems.
* Risk assessment and risk management.
* Utilise psychometric tests competently.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of clients.
* Able to work in accordance with the Trust Values and Behaviours.
* Able to engage with vulnerable children, young people and families and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances.
* Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism within highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Able to provide containment, insight and direct input to complex and challenging cases.
* Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress.
* Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently.
* Committed to continual quality and service improvement.
* Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development.
* Willingness to undertake further leadership development both formal and informal.
* Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, theories and application.
* Ability to travel independently in accordance with service need.
* Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
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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