Job summary
An exciting opportunity has come up at Tameside and Glossop CAMHS for a 0.5 WTE job share of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist post.
You will be working in a multi disciplinary CAMHS team in a diverse borough
You will be expected to take on a managerial component to the role as well as clinical lead
Main duties of the job
To lead the delivery of evidence based care pathways and psychological interventions for a range of childhood emotional health and wellbeing issues across the local system. To support whole system transformation and lead programmes of change that ensure that the principles of iThrive recommendations are delivered within the locality. Ensure the systematic provision of high quality clinical psychology and psychological interventions in the multidisciplinary team for the child and family population of the locality, across all sectors of care.
About us
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service. Embed a local culture of early intervention and develop the recovery and self-management agenda within all sectors involved in the care and support of children, young people and families.To ensure that systems are in place in working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychologists/therapists within the sector for which the post holder has designated professional and managerial responsibility. Ensuring that there are robust systems of support and supervision across the local pathways and outcomes for CYP and the health and social care system are robustly monitored and evaluated. This includes clear processes for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs across the service/sector.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification
education/qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and child developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS or a BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence.
- Membership of the HCPC
- Additional further training in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Training in supervision of qualified and trainee psychologists and other professionals within the MDT
Desirable
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with demonstrable experience as a highly specialist clinical psychologist with Children and young people and/or their families/carers.
- Experience in undertaking line management of psychological therapies staff.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families who may be complex and challenging within the community
- Experience of working with a wide variety of children and young people (including those with complex additional needs) and their families in a range of settings including their homes, other community and acute care settings, Residential and foster care environments for LAC.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary services across the range of statutory and voluntary children's sector
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care pla
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy service
- Experience within 1 or both of the following specialist areas: children in care, children with additional needs
- Experience in teaching and training qualified psychological therapist and of non-psychology staff.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive, antagonistic or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional including medical staff and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
Person Specification
education/qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and child developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS or a BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence.
- Membership of the HCPC
- Additional further training in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Training in supervision of qualified and trainee psychologists and other professionals within the MDT
Desirable
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with demonstrable experience as a highly specialist clinical psychologist with Children and young people and/or their families/carers.
- Experience in undertaking line management of psychological therapies staff.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families who may be complex and challenging within the community
- Experience of working with a wide variety of children and young people (including those with complex additional needs) and their families in a range of settings including their homes, other community and acute care settings, Residential and foster care environments for LAC.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary services across the range of statutory and voluntary children's sector
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care pla
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy service
- Experience within 1 or both of the following specialist areas: children in care, children with additional needs
- Experience in teaching and training qualified psychological therapist and of non-psychology staff.
- Experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive, antagonistic or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional including medical staff and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
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).
