Job summary
Are you ready to make a difference to Children and Adolescent's Mental Health services while advancing your career? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Psychologist, working 30 hours a week, to join our Community CAMHS team! If you're passionate about delivering high-quality psychological care and eager to work in a supportive, innovative, fun, and friendly environment, this could be the perfect role for you.
You'll work alongside a dedicated team of professionals in a multidisciplinary setting, contributing to holistic and effective mental health care. You'll have the opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge research, service evaluation, and audit projects to shape our therapeutic approaches and policies, as well as local and national policy, whilst ensuring the highest standards of psychological care.
You will also be part of the large Trust wide child psychology team making innovative contributions to ongoing service improvement and compassionate care. We will support your development by providing regular clinical supervision and we have an excellent track record in progressing our workforce through further training and continuous professional development opportunities. Additionally, we offer a B7 reflective practice group to ensure comprehensive career support.
Main duties of the job
Working autonomously and collaboratively within a supportive team, you'll utilise your expertise in assessment, treatment, and intervention to provide high-quality specialist psychology services to our young people, their families, and carers. You will be providing quality driven psychological assessments and formulations for young people experiencing a range of mental health problems, including CAMHS assessments following referral to the service.
You will use specialist psychological expertise to manage a clinical caseload and deliver a range of interventions to families and young people to meet their needs and goals, through individual, group work and consultation, in line with care pathways.
You will work as part of the MDT, providing consultation and developing psychological knowledge within the MDT and expert consultation to professionals across various settings.
You will supervise and support the development of others in the team including psychology undergraduate placement students, as well as trainee clinical psychologists and other staff members.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HPC.
* Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation, and treatment) with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient, and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology.
* Knowledge and skills in neuropsychology.
* Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC.
* Ability to travel across sites.
* Commitment to and enthusiasm for multidisciplinary team working.
* Punctual and flexible across work hours as needed.
Desirable
* Experience of offering teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group.
* Lived experience of mental health issues.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see. #J-18808-Ljbffr