Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking to develop your skills in Clinical Psychology and to help develop our provision in Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services? This could be the ideal post you are looking for.
We are seeking to appoint a positive and enthusiastic Principal Clinical Psychologist with an ability to develop and build on their clinical interests and experience within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The breadth of our service offer provides an interesting clinical context, and we are keen to ensure appropriate clinical professional development underpinning excellence.
At Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, you would have opportunities to develop your professional capability by joining a welcoming environment working in a multi-disciplinary team. There will be opportunities to utilise all aspects of your knowledge and skill base and to contribute to service leadership and development, linking into the strong and growing presence of psychology in the Trust.
We have a forward-looking senior leadership team in the Trust who support a collaborative and compassionate model of leadership that we would wish to see applied in carrying out and developing the role.
Main Duties of the Job
* To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children, young people, and their families referred to the service 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 structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the child's or young person's care.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy and/or management of a child's or young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Negotiating the implementation of such plans and sharing of complex, sensitive, and confidential information.
Job Responsibilities
Each member of staff is required to ensure that:
* The patient and customer are always put first;
* In all issues, the patient/customer requirements are met, and all staff contribute fully to achieving the Trust's corporate goals and objectives;
* All staff hold themselves personally responsible for the quality of their work and seek to attain the highest standards achievable within their knowledge, skills, and resources available to them in furtherance of the Trust's Vision and in embedding the organisations Values.
* To be responsible for developing and implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individual children, young people, parents, carers, families, and groups, within the team, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
* To conduct neuropsychological assessments with children and young people, interpreting the results with reference to evidenced-based models and providing verbal and written feedback to clients, their families, and other professionals involved in the child's or young person's care.
* To provide regular clinical supervision/caseload management appropriate to the development of specialist skills in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
* Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS & HCPC.
* Training for and/or experience of clinical supervision of practicing psychologists and/or doctoral degree trainees.
* Post qualification training or experience in utilising psychological theories and therapies to complex mental health presentations.
* Other specialist further training or experience in psychological therapies with children and young people.
* Completion of Clinical Supervision training as provided by doctoral training courses to enable the post holder to supervise and assess clinical doctorate trainees.
Experience
* Substantial post-qualification experience in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
* Some experience of NHS management tasks (e.g., supervision of junior psychology staff; recruitment & selection).
* Direct clinical experience of work in a range of settings and by remote delivery of psychological work.
* Experience of negotiating with NHS managers, professional colleagues, and other agencies.
* Experience of managing junior psychology staff.
* Substantial experience or training in more than one therapeutic intervention specialty.
* Training and/or substantial experience of psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention with a range of different child and adolescent mental health disorders and presentations.
* Ability to design and implement policy for specialist psychological services and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity.
* Ability to professionally manage staff within the speciality.
Skills
* Standard keyboard skills, driving licence.
* Skills in the administration of psychometric tests where timing and accurate manipulation are essential to accuracy.
* Sound knowledge of software and general IT competence.
* Capacity to plan and prioritise many competing complex ongoing tasks including patient contacts, research activity, supervision of psychology and non-psychology staff, service development activities, and representation of service.
* Ability to cope with physical requirements of the job.
* Knowledge and experience of Electronic Patient Record Systems.
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.
Salary: £58,972 to £68,525 a year pro rata, subject to AFC.
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