This post offers a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced clinical psychologist to provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Psychology Therapy team working at Chailey Clinical Services.
We offer a highly specialist psychology-led service for children and young people with perinatal and acquired brain injury, structural brain abnormality and complex physical neurodisability. This includes unidisciplinary working, providing psychological assessment and intervention to children and young adults (0-19 years old) in an outpatient setting, as well as multidisciplinary working with an outpatient paediatric neurorehabilitation team and with teaching and other healthcare staff who serve Chailey Heritage Foundation, a specialist day and residential school for children and young people with profound and complex neurodisability.
Chailey Clinical Services have a commitment to provide outstanding services to children and young people with complex neuro-disabilities. You will be an expert resource and provide advanced level of clinical expertise to professionals and families within Chailey Clinical Services and SCFT.
Great communication, curiosity and a passion for leading excellent services are central to this job role. If you are interested, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Work autonomously as a clinician within the Chailey Clinical Services neuropsychology service, providing psychological assessment and treatment to patients and families with neurodevelopmental and psychological difficulties arising from factors associated with their brain injury and/or complex disability, and the emotional, social, behavioural and health needs that accompany these.
Formulate and devise psychological treatment plans based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of a client's problems, employing methods based upon evidence of effectiveness across the full range of care settings.
Provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professional colleagues to assist them in formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
Provide specialist neuropsychology input into the MDT, including with regards to wider service development, in communication with senior leadership and management colleagues.
Utilise acquired research skills for audit and service development and contribute to research and development activity, inspiring and supporting other team members to do the same.
Job responsibilities
Contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and pathways through the deployment of professional skills in service evaluation, clinical audit and research, leading to an improvement in service delivery that has impact beyond own area of responsibility.
Contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical/counselling psychology and related disciplines, and leading others to do the same.
Assess and treat specialist caseloads of clients at an advanced clinical level and maintain associated records. Make highly skilled professional evaluations and decisions, both in autonomous clinical psychological assessment, clinical decision making, treatment selection and treatment evaluation, and also in multidisciplinary team settings.
Form judgments in leadership and practice and offer specialist opinion and support in relation to highly complex conditions, issues and situations that take account of the wide variety and sometimes conflicting needs of patients, families, colleagues, team and service, and in the context of limited resources while maintaining service quality, team wellbeing and wider staff morale.
Plan, manage and prioritise relevant waiting lists and clinical caseloads.
Provide, develop and manage highly specialist interventions. Responsible for the planning, management, and prioritisation of a clinical caseload.
Contribute to the development of measures of outcome from psychological treatments, and methods of feedback from patients and families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology including specifically models of psychopathology and clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. OR doctoral training as a registered Counselling/Educational Psychologist with additional QiCN training and experience in paediatric neuropsychology conferring eligibility for the SRCN.
* Successful completion of Parts 1, 2 (unless exempt) and 3 of post-doctorate advanced Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology Paediatric Route.
* Current registration with the HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist OR Counselling/Educational Psychologist with additional QiCN training in Clinical Neuropsychology Paediatric Route, conferring eligibility for entry to the DoN and SRCN.
Experience
* Significant post-qualification experience as a Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychologist with significant experience in the field of paediatric neuropsychology.
* Significant experience of working as a qualified psychologist within children's services.
* Significant experience of clinical supervision and consultancy to all grades of psychologist in the context of paediatric neuropsychology and neurodevelopmental pathways.
* Experience in managing highly complex situations concerning, e.g. safeguarding, risk assessment and management, clinical governance, complaints, and investigations.
* Significant leadership experience and evidence of success in leading service evaluation/audit, contributing to service transformation and implementing change to service delivery.
Skills and Knowledge
* Skills in the use of complex methods and tools of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Significant skills in or knowledge of the use of standard neurodevelopmental assessment tools and strategies, such as for autism and ADHD.
* Skills as a senior clinician to undertake clinical leadership roles and tasks within multidisciplinary, multi-professional and multi-agency contexts.
Other requirements
* Ability to travel between bases and within the community as required for the post.
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.
£74,290 to £85,601 a year per annum pro rata
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