Trust: Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
Location: Orchid house, 83 Radford Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 1JQ and Stratford health centre, Coventry, CV1 4JH
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri 9.00am 17.00pm
Main duties of the job
Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are rated Good in their most recent CQC report as well as being recognised as a Global Digital Exemplar. The Trust works across 101 locations including 5 hospitals, delivering community and mental health services to 1 million people. The Trust also has exciting plans to transform care for mental health, Musculo-skeletal conditions (MSK), learning disabilities and autism. This includes a brand-new state-of-the-art Rainbow Unit, providing facilities for inpatients with a learning disability and/or autism.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.
Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave.
Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments for children and young people referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
2. To formulate, implement and recommend plans to multi-disciplinary colleagues, professionals in other agencies and parents/carers for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions with children, young people, and their families with complex and severe mental health problems by demonstrating the ability to synthesize different explanatory models and adjust/refine psychological formulations to guide specialist interventions.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about appropriate and evidence-based treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
5. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
6. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people, and their families, and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. This includes contributing to the CAMHS self-harm and duty response rotas.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of managing complexity and risk.
* 4 plus years working within a child mental health service.
* Supervision experience with CAMHS.
Qualifications
* Must have a Clinical psychology doctorate and be registered with the HCPC.
* In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of registration with the relevant Registration Body.
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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