Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for a confident, enthusiastic, and dynamic psychologist to join our busy multi-disciplinary Children and Young People's Service working across Newcastle and Gateshead. There are two key roles within this post which together provide an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to develop and extend their clinical skills and knowledge. The post involves three days working with our neurodevelopmental assessment team and two days with the mental health team.
You will be working in an environment where there is a strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. Across both roles, you will work collaboratively with our friendly multidisciplinary team members including other qualified psychologists and our fantastic Assistant Psychologists who support the qualified roles. Professionally, there are links with the wider network of psychologists who deliver psychology into our learning disability team. As a service, we value the role of robust, supportive, and effective supervision and you will have access to separate clinical and management supervision at a frequency that meets your needs. The post-holder will also have the opportunity to contribute to the supervision of Assistant Psychologists and team members from wider professions.
Main Duties of the Job
Within the neurodevelopmental assessment team, you will be responsible for leading assessment and formulation of complex presentations, exploring possible neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities and/or disorder as well as thoroughly considering wider factors and comorbidity. Our assessments provide thorough profiling of young people's strengths, needs, and difficulties helping to ensure that they have access to the most appropriate understanding and supports as they develop and grow. We are ideally looking for a clinician who has knowledge and training in neurodevelopmental assessment skills and who is able to put the young person and their family at the center of every assessment. The successful candidate will be supported in developing specialist skills that are relevant to this role, for example, there will be an opportunity to complete training in ADOS assessment.
Within the mental health team, you will be delivering psychological therapies that are appropriate to the presenting difficulties, in the context of a comprehensive formulation. Within the mental health pathway, we deliver a range of psychological therapies including CBT, EMDR, Family Therapy, Art Therapy, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to further develop their psychological therapy skills through co-working and robust supervision.
About Us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future.
As a service, we believe in investing in staff and there will be support to develop leadership skills and to contribute to service developments. There will also be opportunities to engage in delivering teaching, training, service evaluation, and research according to your interests and service need. We will expect the post holder to actively pursue continuous professional development and will support them to identify needs and to progress in a meaningful way.
Job Responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC.
* HCPC registered practitioner psychologist (or able to register once fully graduated).
Skills and Competencies
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment.
* Skills in planning and delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate complex and clinically sensitive information.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment across a range of care settings.
* Experience of delivering interventions across the lifespan and for a range of presenting problems and clinical severity.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and data analysis.
* Experience of working with children, young people, and families.
* Experience of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental differences.
* Experience of assessment of neurodevelopmental disorder.
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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