8b Principal Psychologist within CYP MHST Programme
Under the umbrella of the Rise Children and Young Peoples mental health service, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust is expanding our Mental Health Support Teams programme.
Do you have a passion for working with Children and Young People at an Early Intervention stage to support their emotional health and wellbeing?
We want to hear from enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated clinicians who hold excellent clinical skills and are ready to meet the challenges of delivering the best possible services to our CYP of Coventry and Warwickshire within the MHST programme.
This is an exciting time to join the MHST programme as we expand the clinical leadership structure ensuring that the programme has stability and leadership to deliver and grow.
Your role as the 8b Principal Psychologist will be critical in leading and overseeing the delivery of high-quality specialist clinical psychological interventions, including multilevel psychological CBT approaches within the CYP Mental Health Support Teams (MHST's).
Main Duties of the Job
The role is to work as a higher senior member of an exciting service which has been growing since the initial trailblazer of 2019.
Your role will further enhance our commitment to working in partnership with our education and commissioner colleagues to ensure the MHST programme is successful and meets the needs of our CYP.
You will be one of the senior clinical leaders of the MHST service, strengthening the clinical offer and structure. You will be expected to lead, oversee, and enable the teams to provide a high-quality psychological service to the CYP, their families, and the school staff.
You will hold a caseload, support the CYP patient flow through supervision, and work collaboratively with the leadership team and external stakeholders.
You will provide highly specialist psychological formulations, assessments, and therapy of service users using highly complex psychological data gained from a wide variety of sources.
Job Responsibilities
* The post holder will support the governance, leadership, and delivery of the MHST model within identified schools and colleges, ensuring robust and continually improving approaches to promote the development, welfare, and wellbeing of children and young people and their families.
* The post holder will oversee the supervision requirements and delivery to the team members, ensuring adherence to the MHST model.
* The post holder will deliver services that are responsive to local and national directives, promoting a learning culture that leads to improved service delivery and robust clinical governance.
* The post holder will provide specialist psychological formulation, assessment, and therapy, offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to colleagues from other disciplines.
* The post holder will support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising full clinical responsibility.
* The post holder will work cooperatively with multidisciplinary colleagues to contribute to service development and to achieve service goals.
* The post holder will be expected to provide clinical supervision to other psychological services staff, including qualified psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, CBT Therapists, and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical Psychologist)
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* Advanced knowledge across a range of procedures, underpinned by theory and practice.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Advanced knowledge across a range of procedures, underpinned by theory and practice.
* Skills in applying this knowledge.
* Knowledge of specialist therapeutic techniques acquired through professional diploma, advanced diploma/accreditation/registration or further substantial training.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity.
* Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for work.
* Experience of working with children and young people.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address
Parkside
Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2NJ
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