Job summary
Hello, my name is James and I am the Team Manager of the Child, Family and Young People Service for Looked After and Adopted Children (CYFP LAAC).
We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity to recruit to a band 8a Clinical Psychologist within our LAAC Mental Health Team in Norfolk and Waveney. We would also welcome Preceptorship applications at a Band 7. This is full time substantive role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to join us and help us continue to ensure that we provide an excellent service for children who are in care, adopted or under SGO, and their carers and families.
What we do:
The LAAC team is a specialist service offering timely trauma informed mental health assessment and longer-term evidence-based therapy for children in care and adopted children where there are specific concerns around mental health.
We are in the process of developing our pathways model for the LAAC team. This pathway will sit closely alongside our CORE teams. The overarching therapeutic approach is based on a trauma informed dyadic or systemic clinical model. Some of the individual therapies used by the team include DDP, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Trauma and Attachment focussed Therapy, VIG, Trauma focused therapies including EMDR and TF-CBT, Play Therapy, Systemic Approaches and Mentalization Based Therapies. There will be opportunities for applicants to train in DDP.
Main duties of the job
To be part of an established team, and to support the delivery of exceptional trauma informed therapeutic support to children in care or adopted between the ages of 0-18 who are experiencing mental health difficulties in the context of their early childhood experiences.
- Undertaking comprehensive assessments of complex young people and their systems, developing meaningful formulations, and making highly skilled decisions which guide ongoing intervention options.
- Providing evidence-based interventions and treatment for children in care with a wide range of mental health presentations.
- To manage a clinical caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
- To undertake and contribute to complex risk assessment of complex cases within the team and to support the professional systems around the child or young person to address and positively manage risk.
- To confidently use psychometrics or other testing to assess and formulate cases.
- To contribute to the development of a response and effective therapeutic service within the team.
- To contribute to service development and projects within the team.
- An opportunity to supervise trainees on placement within the team and supervise existing clinicians within the team.
- To travel independently across Norfolk, each Clinician is allocated a specific locality to travel to (either, East, West or Central).
About us
It is important to us that all staff share our values and core beliefs, and those of the NHS Constitution. We promote an environment of mutual respect, compassion, integrity and collaborative working. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and aim to attract and retain a candidate who is compassionate and committed to our trust values of working positively, respectfully, and together.
We are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and we are making significant contributions to exciting transformation work that seeks to promote a shared responsibility for mental health of young people across various community health and social care services, education and the voluntary sector. We are keen to develop clinical leadership further, and would encourage your involvement in this.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find more detail about the role in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you feel you have the skills required, then we look forward to receiving your application!
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find more detail about the role in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you feel you have the skills required, then we look forward to receiving your application!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
Desirable
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist)
Skills
Essential
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
- Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
- Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Experience of supervision and teaching
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service user
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently
- Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Able to use multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
- Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training
Desirable
- Theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions (assessment and / or therapist)
Skills
Essential
- Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS.
- Well -developed communications skills (oral and written)
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologist
- Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.
- Experience of supervision and teaching
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
- Knowledge of mental health legislation within specialist clinical context
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological intervention and assessment in specialist clinical service user
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel independently
- Able to identify, provide and promote appropriate support strategies to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Able to use multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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).
