Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist

The closing date is 30 June 2025

Job summary

32 hours/week. Weekdays between 9am - 5pm (can offer flexibility)

An exciting new role has arisen in Navigo Community CAMHS - Young Minds Matter. The role has been developed to support our Crisis and Home Treatment team working with children and young people presenting with complex mental health and other difficulties. The role will support the team by working with skilled practitioners to develop psychological formulations and trauma-informed needs-based care plans for children and young people presenting in a crisis and/or with complex mental health difficulties. The role will be part of a wider service strategy in CAMHS to work towards trauma-informed care as routine practice. The successful applicant will join an established supportive psychology team, where CPD is actively encouraged.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work closely with Navigo CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment team, supporting the team to further develop their psychological understanding of the needs of children and young people presenting in a mental health crisis. The successful candidate will have strengths in thinking about children, young people and families using a compassionate, trauma-informed lens, an ability to draw on a variety of psychological models to understand distress, and an ability to communicate this understanding sensitively to families and professionals. The successful candidate will hold a small caseload of children or young people with complex mental health difficulties, within the context of support from the wider Crisis team. They will deliver reflective supervision within the service, both in a group and individually. As this is a new role, the successful candidate will have influence as to how the role develops in the service with support from a Consultant Psychologist.

About us

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Come and Join us !

Please note: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AI generated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that has been automatically generated.

Should you require any assistance in completing this application due to a disability or other needs please contact navigo.recruitment@nhs.net

Date posted

04 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B9816-492

Job locations

Freshney Green Primary Care Centre

Sorrel Road

Grimsby

DN34 4GB

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:

To provide highly specialist psychological support, advice, and clinical supervision / consultation to the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team and relevant partner agencies regarding children and young people (CYP) who would benefit from a psychological perspective regarding their needs and how to best support them.

To use their highly specialist psychological formulation skills and understanding of trauma-informed care, to support the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment Team to develop needs-led psychologically informed formulations and care plans.

To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the delivery of highly specialist psychological assessments, treatment, consultation and joint working, for children and young people referred (internally) from the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team.

To exercise full responsibility for the management of internal referrals for highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment, consultation and joint working.

To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service to CYP referred and accepted from the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team.

To develop and facilitate reflective supervision opportunities for their colleagues in the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment Team and the wider CAMH service to support staff and team wellbeing.

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting in a mental health crisis and/or needing home treatment or specialist support.

To hold a small clinical caseload, offering highly specialist psychological support and interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their parents/carers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation.

To formulate psychological treatment plans that are specific to each child and family, based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models.

To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.

To contribute to complex decision making around the childs emotional wellbeing and mental health needs with parent agencies and services .

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers and inpatient providers.

To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting children and young people in a crisis and/or requiring high levels of support in relation to their mental health

To work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Crisis Team Lead to support the embedding of trauma-informed care and the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework into routine practice in the Crisis / Home Treatment team.

To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment (including skilled manipulation of test material), neuropsychological assessments, self-report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data.

To support the work of Navigo CAMHS pathways, including management duties and provide support and consultation for staff and service users as part of a duty manager rota when required.

To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation.

Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated, and guide the team in relation to the use and interpretation of this data.

To lead on and contribute to service development work.

To deputise for the Consultant Clinical Psychologist when needed.

To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.

To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists and to continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.