Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary Forensic CAMHS service. We are looking for an experienced psychologist to work across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This post holder will sit alongside other psychology and psychiatry colleagues in FCAMHS while working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues from specialist CAMHS to offer a service to children and young people who present a risk to themselves and others in the context of mental health difficulties. This post will offer the opportunity to shape the role through dynamic and innovative service development and delivery. The successful applicant will benefit from a varied role including individual and family work, consultation to specialist CAMHS colleagues/other professionals, supervision and training. There will also be opportunities to drive research and audit. You will be part of an existing FCAMHS team working with high risk young people with complex needs, they will have a range of multiple severe and persistent needs and are often a risk to others or themselves.
Southern Health Foundation Trust are hosting the service for Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight. This is part of a wider network, hosted by Oxford Health. As such there will be the opportunity to work closely together in a single professional network, to share knowledge and experience and provide supervision and support.
Main duties of the job
Contributing to the strategic and operational development of Forensic CAMHS locally and regionally.
Consultation and training for clinicians within the organisation and with other stakeholders within the geographical patch.
Direct clinical work with children, young people and their families.
Access to bespoke training and supervision
Key skills will include:
Excellent clinical knowledge and experience across a range of approaches, presentations and age ranges.
Excellent skills in case formulation including management of risk and multi-agency planning.
Excellent skills in multi-agency consultation.
Be able to talk confidently and knowledgeably to a wide audience including young people and their families as well as a range of
professionals.
An excellent ability to communicate with clinicians inside the service and with external stakeholders including; school, Children's Services
and youth offending teams.
An ability to represent the profession while working collaboratively with colleagues.
The successful applicant must be able to work well within a team.
There will be a requirement to travel across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The work base for this post is flexible and options can be discussed and considered at interview.
About us
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.
With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.
We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.
The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.
Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. - Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK) as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
2. - Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Experience
Essential
3. - Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
4. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
5. - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children and young peoples psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
6. - Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
7. - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
8. - Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
9. - Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
10. - Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
11. - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
12. - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
13. - Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
14. - Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
15. - Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
16. - High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification
17. - Experience of assessing and treating children and young people across the full range of care settings.
18. - Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
19. -Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
20. - Experience of working together with service users to ensure that they are equal partners in service design, evaluation, research and training
Additional Criteria
Essential
21. Communication/Relationship skills:
22. - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their
23. families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
24. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
25. - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
26. Analytical & Judgement skills:
27. - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
28. Planning & Organisational skills:
29. - Skills in planning and organisation of complex activities and programs.
30. - Skills in modifying and reshaping programs.
31. People Management/Leadership/Resources
32. - Skills in clinical project management and resource allocation.
33. IT skills:
34. - Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
35. Physical skills:
36. PMVA and de-escalation skills.
37. Abilities
38. - Experience of managing conflicting demands and deadlines
39. - Ability to manage complex and demanding situations.
40. - Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
41. - Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
42. Approach/Values:
43. - Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
44. - Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
45. - Commitment to empowering service users, their relatives and carers at all levels.
46. - Commitment to multidisciplinary team working.
47. - Ability to travel across sites.
48. - Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required