Job summary
An fabulous opportunity has arisen to recruit a Senior Applied Psychologist to work alongside our multi-disciplinary colleagues in Wolverhampton CAMHS Children and Young People in Care Team. You will be a key and highly valued member of the Children and Young People In Care CAMHS Team. You will be supported by a highly specialist social worker, art therapist, child psychotherapist as well as the consultant psychologist lead in providing specialist psychological provision to children and young people who have experienced early relational trauma and attachment difficulties. The work is difficult but rewarding.
The post-holder will enjoy considerable variety within their role, providing psychological input for clients and their carers through formulation, intervention and consultation, as well as using the formulation to inform the wider professional system.
Main duties of the job
The CAMHS Children and Young People in Care Team is situated with the main core team and so is fully supported. In some cases the children may work with clinicians in core CAMHS or the learning disability team in close collaboration with our team. We are supported by our crisis team and psychiatry colleagues wherever necessary.
The role of the psychologist will be to bring psychological expertise into the team and to share this with the wider multi-disciplinary team when required. There will also be an opportunity to have a trainee due to the close affiliation the Trust has with Birmingham University and the University of Wolverhampton.
About us
The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a Trust that really cares for their staff. Yearly appraisals take place to inform staff progress and development and support ongoing training needs. There are regular offers of wellbeing programmes to help staff maintain good emotional and mental health. There is strong and committed psychology leadership team across the Trust that works to bring together psychologists and psychological therapists to ensure psychological staff feel inclusion and supported. Regular events take place so that psychologists from different divisions have the opportunity to meet together and network.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the job description and person specification for a detailed overview of the main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the job description and person specification for a detailed overview of the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oPost-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oHCPC registration as An Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status
- oWorking as a qualified applied psychologist within a CAMHS service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
- oExperience of working with children and young people who are in the looked after children's system with developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
- oEvidence- based practice relevant to the role of working with children and young people's with mental health difficulties and attachment difficulties.
Desirable
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oPost-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- oHCPC registration as An Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status
- oWorking as a qualified applied psychologist within a CAMHS service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
- oExperience of working with children and young people who are in the looked after children's system with developmental trauma and attachment difficulties
- oEvidence- based practice relevant to the role of working with children and young people's with mental health difficulties and attachment difficulties.
Desirable
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).
