Consultant Applied Psychologist (Peripatetic)
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
CAMHS services across Durham & Tees Valley are looking for an experienced Consultant Applied Psychologist to join our services on a peripatetic basis to provide expert input into specialist assessment and formulation of young people accessing our services.
The successful applicant will work alongside existing psychological professions colleagues within well-established teams, to help meet the needs of increasing numbers of children and young people seeking assessment for Autism and/or ADHD. The primary focus will be delivery of clinical services; it is essential that you have the skills, knowledge and experience to undertake the diagnostician role, including single clinician assessments. We welcome innovation and ideas for service improvement as we strive to continually improve the experience for families.
Additional skills and experience of working with children and young people with a learning disability would be an advantage, as there may be opportunities to support our LD CAMHS teams across the region.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will support MDT discussion and decision making in relation to outcomes of assessment for children and young people on the standard assessment pathway. For children and young people with more complex presentations on an enhanced assessment pathway, you will be pivotal to the assessment and subsequent MDT discussion and decision making. This may be a mixture of face to face and remote working, depending on clinical need.
About us
There is a strong Psychology network across the Trust and within the CAMHS directorate. We provide training placements for the local DClinPsy and DCounsPsy courses, and encourage Psychology staff to contribute to relevant research opportunities.
Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy's Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website.
Job responsibilities
This is a peripatetic role whereby the successful candidate will provide expert assessment and formulation on a sessional basis into our CAMHS neurodevelopmental and LDCAMHS services. Provision of consultation and/or supervision may also form part of the role where needed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
* Trained in care co-ordination
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Approved ADOS trainer
Experience
* Must have experience of providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession.
* Must have substantial experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
* Must have substantial experience of liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
* Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments
* Experience of working with children and young people with a learning disability
Skills
* Must be able to communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
* Must be able to provide consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
* Must be able to utilise psychometric tests competently
* Must be able to provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
£74,290 to £101,677 a yearpro rata per annum
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