Job summary
Our CAMHS Looked after children team are looking to recruit to a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist, the post is full time and permanent.
The Clinical Psychologist will be a member of the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team working with Looked after children. The post holder will accept, prioritise, assess and treat referrals of children and young people in the context of their families, carers and professional networks -where presenting problems are of a moderate to high level of complexity.
As part of the team the Clinical Psychology post will be responsible for care co-ordination of children and young people's care within a caseload in consultation with the multi-agency professional network for children and young people who are subject to Looked After Children Plans.
The post holder will offer evidence based interventions, consultation, advice, training and guidance to support children and their professional care networks regarding their emotional, behavioural and mental health.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake thorough initial Psychological assessments of children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs including urgent risk assessments.
- To develop complex psychological formulations in clinical practice, negotiating this with clients and their carers/ professional networks and communicate this to referrers and other relevant professionals.
- To develop complex psychological formulations and provide specialist advice to other professionals on clinical aspects of risk and risk management.
- To co-ordinate children and young people's care within their involvement with the service including transition points to other services.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage and prioritise an individual caseload and keep the Service Lead informed of caseload, waiting times and other issues that affect the service.
To deliver evidence based psychological and therapeutic intervention with children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs.
To deliver initial and ongoing professional network consultation services for the care networks of referred children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs.
To exercise the appropriate use of independent clinical skills, authority and autonomy to inform safe and evidence based decisions in clinical practice, consultation and supervision in accordance with NSCHT policy.
To evaluate the outcomes of interventions with clients, carers and their professional networks using standard routine outcome measures including the identification of where a need has not been met
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage and prioritise an individual caseload and keep the Service Lead informed of caseload, waiting times and other issues that affect the service.
To deliver evidence based psychological and therapeutic intervention with children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs.
To deliver initial and ongoing professional network consultation services for the care networks of referred children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs.
To exercise the appropriate use of independent clinical skills, authority and autonomy to inform safe and evidence based decisions in clinical practice, consultation and supervision in accordance with NSCHT policy.
To evaluate the outcomes of interventions with clients, carers and their professional networks using standard routine outcome measures including the identification of where a need has not been met
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nationally recognised qualification which must be registered with the appropriate governing body, such as the HCPC for Clinical Psychologists.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of the delivery of specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions for children with complex presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Must demonstrate a working knowledge of health, education, social services and the voluntary sector and have the ability to work in partnership with other professionals from a range of multi-disciplinary backgrounds.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Nationally recognised qualification which must be registered with the appropriate governing body, such as the HCPC for Clinical Psychologists.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of the delivery of specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions for children with complex presentations
Knowledge
Essential
- Must demonstrate a working knowledge of health, education, social services and the voluntary sector and have the ability to work in partnership with other professionals from a range of multi-disciplinary backgrounds.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
