Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We are looking for a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team (IOT). We are happy to consider job sharing and part-time working. Please do contact us to talk over anything about the post.

IOT is a Northamptonshire service that provides intensive, time-limited, home-based support and intervention for young people in mental-health crisis (including severe eating disorders, psychosis and self-harm). The team aims to prevent unnecessary or potentially unhelpful admissions to Inpatient CAMHS by working with families to stabilise difficult situations and through providing intensive support in the home. We work closely with our CAMHS partners to plan the longer-term care that is needed too. We also work closely with our CAMHS inpatient teams to reduce length of admission and/or to offer a more intensive approach on discharge, if this is required.

We are currently recruiting to the different positions in our team (family-therapy, psychology, psychiatry and occupational therapy). We hope this will increase the interventions that we can provide and also help our processes of assessment and formulation, as well as risk assessment, management, and stabilisation.

Main duties of the job

As the team's clinical psychologist you would assist with assessment (including specialist assessment of (as examples) neurodevelopmental or trauma needs), care planning and therapeutic interventions. We are building up our ability to provide short-term, brief interventions and your input on this would be very welcome. Liaising with other CAMHS services, including our DBT-A team and Family Therapy service for example, will also be very important.

We also hope you'll be able to provide consultation and advice to support the team in their duties, to provide spaces for case discussion and reflective practice, and to take part in team-training and our supervision processes. Your own training and development needs are important to us and we hope to support you within this as much as possible through systems of supervision and appraisal, and via your analysis of the work you are being asked to do.

You would be supervised managerially from within the team and clinically by the lead consultant clinical psychologist for our sector of CAMHS. There is a well-established and very supportive group of clinical psychologists within NHFT CAMHS, but within the Inpatient, IOT and Crisis team-cluster itself, you would also be one of four qualified clinical psychologists. We hope you will be able to supervise an assistant psychologist within IOT itself and, once settled in the team, to consider supervising a trainee clinical psychologist.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

John Greenwood shipman centre

Northampton

NN3 8UW

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

John Greenwood shipman centre

Northampton

NN3 8UW

Employer's website

https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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