Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
This is a newly created role for a senior clinical psychologist to join a well established Children and Young People's Eating Disorder service. The role will require oversight of psychology across the whole of the team (in conjunction with the consultant clinical psychologist/Clinical Lead, and the other psychologists). In addition, there will be a primary focus on the Arfid pathway which requires development along with colleagues.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide high quality specialist clinical psychological services to service users.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on service user's psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines, to patients' families and carers.
3. To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other clinicians involved with these services, working autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising full clinical responsibility, and implementing changes where necessary.
4. To work co-operatively with multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve service goals.
5. To contribute to service development.
6. To provide clinical supervision to other psychological services staff including qualified psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, child psychotherapists, and art therapists.
7. To participate in service development and governance of psychological services practice within Integrated Children's Services.
About us
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for further information regarding this exciting opportunity within our team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Knowledge of a range of psychological procedures and techniques plus knowledge (acquired through any background i.e. arts or other degree, RMN, psychology, social work, OT, teaching) of specialist therapeutic techniques acquired through professional diploma, advanced diploma / accreditation / registration or further substantial training and accredited clinical supervision plus experience plus management experience; to doctoral or equivalent level.
* Hold current professional registration with a body appropriate to the field.
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
* Skills in applying this knowledge. Well developed communication skills, suitable to the specialty.
* Formal training and/or significant experience in supervision of other psychological services staff including doctoral level trainees.
Experience
* Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
* Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
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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