Job summary
Post Title
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist:CAMHS
Service/Ward/Department
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Borough
Tameside and Glossop
Band & salary scale
8a
Hours of work
37.5 (OPEN TO NEGOTIATION)
Permanent/Fixed term
PERMANENT
Main duties of the job
Role Summary:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our well established but currently expanding multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. We are looking for a highly specialist clinical psychologist with experience of working in a CAMHS setting to join our already strong team of 8 clinical psychologists within our service.
About us
Tameside and Glossop CAMHS is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children's Social Care (CSC) and 3rd Sector and as a locality is striving to fully align to the Thrive approach to delivering mental health services. We are fully committed to staff development, with CPD opportunities, a robust clinical and management supervision structure, and access to in-house training covering key areas of clinical practice.
T&G CAMHS is extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. Examples include the long-established Early Attachment Service which is a nationally recognised, specialist parent-infant mental health service. Recent investment has also supported the establishment of a highly innovative relationship-focussed and trauma-informed therapeutic service co-located within CSC. We are also developing our Mental Health in Schools Teams, and working hard to enhance our Getting Advice and Getting Help offers in the community.
Significant new investment is facilitating a considerable further expansion of our service. We are delighted to be recruiting a range of new staff to join our already highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to the core CAMHS service. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
Registration with the HCPC and previous CAMHS experience is essential for this role. The successful candidate will need to be an excellent communicator and enjoy team and multi-disciplinary working.
WE WOULD ALSO BE KEEN TO HEAR FROM ANYONE CONSIDERING PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to the core CAMHS service. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families and to supervise that provided by other staff within the multi-disciplinary team. To offer training and consultation both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
Registration with the HCPC and previous CAMHS experience is essential for this role. The successful candidate will need to be an excellent communicator and enjoy team and multi-disciplinary working.
WE WOULD ALSO BE KEEN TO HEAR FROM ANYONE CONSIDERING PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT
Person Specification
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.
- Registration with BPS
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (with demonstrable experience at a specialist level).
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings 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 working with families and carers.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care multidisciplinary care plan.and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a
- Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowlegde
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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 providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends
Person Specification
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.
- Registration with BPS
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (with demonstrable experience at a specialist level).
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings 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 working with families and carers.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care multidisciplinary care plan.and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a
- Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowlegde
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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 providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends
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).
