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 in Sunderland. We have 3 main pathways: mental health, neurodevelopmental assessment, and learning disability. This new post provides an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to develop and extend their clinical skills and knowledge working within the mental health pathway.
You will be working in an environment where there is a strong emphasis on teamwork and quality of clinical care. You will work collaboratively with our friendly multidisciplinary team members including other qualified psychologists. Professionally, there are links with the wider network of psychologists. 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.
Main duties of the job
Within the mental health team, you will undertake psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions including delivering psychological therapies that are appropriate to the presenting difficulties. You will work collaboratively with children, young people, their families/carers, MDT, and partner agencies. 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 therapies skills through co-working and robust supervision, and training opportunities.
There will also be opportunities to engage in consultation, scaffolding, delivering teaching, training, service evaluation, and research according to your interests and service needs.
We have close links with the Newcastle clinical psychology doctorate course at Newcastle and always have trainees on placement with the service. You will be encouraged to access their supervision course for development.
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. In return, we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
As a service, we believe in investing in staff and there will be support to develop leadership skills and to contribute to service developments. 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.
Skills and Competencies
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management.
* Skills in evidence-based psychological interventions.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their family, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Knowledge and Experience
* 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 with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including severe and enduring mental health problems, psychosis, and personality disorder. This includes maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the possibility of physical abuse.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Experience of working with children, young people, and their 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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