Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Staff Benefits:
1. Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
2. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
3. Excellent pension.
4. Cycle to work scheme.
5. Salary sacrifice car scheme.
6. Wellbeing programme.
7. Blue Light Card Discount.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
1. Good honours degree in psychology.
2. Eligibility for British Psychological Society Chartered status.
3. Current HCPC Registration.
4. Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS or completion of BPS Stage 2 Forensic Psychology (or equivalent). Consideration would be given to applicants with less than 18 months remaining on the Stage 2 Forensic Psychology Pathway.
Desirable Criteria:
1. Further training in a therapeutic modality.
Experience
Essential Criteria:
1. Experience working with individuals presenting with complex clinical needs.
2. Experience consulting with or training healthcare and other professionals.
3. Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable Criteria:
1. Experience in complex multiagency settings, such as inpatient, forensic or criminal justice settings, or working within partnership arrangements.
2. Specific relevant clinical experience such as working with adolescents, families, complex trauma or risk.
3. Experience of supervision of other professionals, assistant psychologists or trainee psychologists.
Knowledge
Essential Criteria:
1. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in those who present with complex trauma and/or significant risk issues.
2. Skills in the use of neuropsychological assessments.
3. Knowledge of research design and methodology.
Desirable Criteria:
1. Knowledge of relevant legislation, national guidance and professional systems.
2. Training or experience with adolescents and/or adolescent offenders.
3. Training or experience using Compassion Focused Therapy or interventions designed to work with trauma e.g., EMDR.
4. Training or experience in implementing trauma-informed care.
Skills and Abilities
Essential Criteria:
1. High level of communication skills, to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to young people, their carers and families, and a range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
2. Ability to cope with stressful interpersonal situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
3. Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others.
4. Have an ability to show openness and appropriate vulnerability, and to acknowledge the impact of trauma on self and the wider organisation. A willingness to ask for help and support where needed.
Desirable Criteria:
1. Hold skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management in work with young people and families.
2. Evidence of consultation skills.
Other Requirements
Essential Criteria:
1. Ability to travel between sites, to meetings relevant to the role, or to support assessments or transitions into the community.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
Applicant Requirements:
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to Download
1. Job Description (PDF, 456.6KB)
2. Person Specification (PDF, 312.6KB)
3. Important Candidate Information (PDF, 2.5MB)
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