Clinical Psychologist Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have extensive experience working with this client group and have developed skills in highly specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation (including research and audit). This may include functional assessment and analysis, complex case formulation, adapted cognitive behavioural therapy, systemic family therapy and other clinically indicated evidence-based interventions including positive behavioural support. The post holder will also have experience of supervision, training and consultation, providing supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff, taking a lead role in delivering training, and offering expert consultation to partner agencies and other professionals within the multi-disciplinary team. The postholder will have the skills and experience to manage their own complex cases autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures, and experience of working in multi-agency settings.

This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice.

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Eligibility for BPS Chartered Status

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice e.g. systemic family therapy
• Specialist training in psychological therapies with children, young people and families
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Additional qualifications relating to learning disability e.g. PBS coaches training

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with children, young people and their families.
• Specialist experience of post-qualification assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range who have learning disabilities and/or autism and complex needs
• Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings and severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for young people's psychological care and treatment independently and within a multidisciplinary and multiagency context
• Experience of psychometric and neuropsychological assessments with young people
• Experience of providing consultation to other professionals and families
• Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency work
• Experience of teaching and training staff from other professional groups in psychological skills and concepts and areas relating to learning disabilities, autism and complex needs
• Experience of service development
• Experience of working with families and carers
• Experience of professional/clinical supervision
• experience of child safeguarding
• Assessment and formulation with a range of child mental health issues in a range of settings and age groups
• perience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working

Desirable

• Significant experience post qualification in the area of learning disabilities and autism, and associated complex needs
• Experience of groupwork with parents and/or young people
• Experience of representing psychology in the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of providing training to other health care professionals, teaching and training qualified psychological therapist and nonpsychologist staf
• xperience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts
• PBS trained

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of child development; assessment of child mental health issues (in particular with those children with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs)
• Knowledge of child safeguarding issues
• Knowledge of the range of services typically involved with children with complex needs
• Knowledge of legislation and national guidance in relation to the needs of children and young people with complex disabilities and mental health needs
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psycholog
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people

Desirable

• Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people with complex needs
• Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologie

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing (ability to select, use, and interpret a range of psychological measures including cognitive and developmental assessments), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups; engaging groups in cooperative workin
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely chellenging behaviours
• Research skills
• Ability to plan and prioritise own caseload
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to work with a range of professionals from a range of agencies
• Evidence that can use supervision effectively
• Keyboard and word processing skills
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to manage frequent periods of intense concentration service (therapeutic sessions, meetings and computing tasks) and to sit in a constrained position to client therapies and computer work
• Ability to work to professional guidelines

Work related circumstances

Essential

• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).