Job summary
37.5 hours per week
Join a supportive, forward-thinking CAMHS Team passionate about working collaboratively with young people and the adults around them.
We are looking to appoint a HPCP registered Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our MDT. Close collaboration with experienced colleagues will be encouraged. This includes within service and across other agencies. Complex formulations guide all our work and our understanding of need. These feed into innovative, inclusive, high-quality evidence-based care, within a trust that values research and evaluation to support these aims.
This role will involve working across the Wakefield District, with opportunities to see children in various community settings, as well as within CAMHS bases. A flexible approach to travel is required to meet the needs of the service.
Informal visits and enquiries are strongly encouraged by contacting Karl Senior, Team Manager on 01977 735900 or Dr Steven McGovern, Consultant Clinical Psychologist 01924 735900.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS team. Playing a key role in providing expert psychological assessments, complex formulation and interventions that are both evidence-based and tailored to the individual's unique needs and context.
Collaborative working is central to this role, as you will be part of a specialist therapies MDT, working closely with other agencies and across CAMHS pathways. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential to building effective relationships and sharing psychological knowledge.
Providing consultation, delivering training, and offering supervision will be part of this role. Help in shaping the services approach to care and improvement is another aspect.
We are committed to supporting professional growth, with opportunities for regular supervision, a comprehensive induction programme, and annual appraisals.
You will maintain clinical records in accordance with Trust policy.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
The post holder will provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and Trust's policies and procedures.
Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees, and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research within the areas served by the team/service.
Offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of service users.
Provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists, and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe, and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation, and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family and/or carers.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence-based practice across a full range of care settings.
Establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
* Show respect and treat people with dignity.
* Be able to give bad news sensitively.
* Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
* Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
Desirable
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of group work.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
* To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
Qualifications
Essential
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* Significant post qualification experience in a setting relevant to the post.
* HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
Training
Essential
* Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Physical Attributes
Essential
* Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
* A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Special Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
* Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees.
* Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes.
* Ability to empathise and develop a good therapeutic alliance.
* Ability to formulate complex processes.
* Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* Keyboard skills.
* Manual dexterity for conducting tests.
Desirable
* Working with people in crisis.
* Working on an in-patient psychiatric ward.
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