CAMHS Clinical Psychologist - Welcome Bonus

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 31 January 2025

Job summary

Clinical Psychologist Band 8a/ Band 7 preceptorships available

Does the idea of bringing psychological insights, innovation and leadership to CAMH services inspire you? Do you thrive working in complex environments requiring creative therapeutic approaches? Are you committed to working compassionately with young people, their families and the systems around them?

Our roles:

We have multiple opportunities for Clinical Psychologists to join our CAMH services across the Outpatient service, Learning Disability Service and Eating Disorder Team with exciting possibilities for split-post options working across the services-strengthening and developing service links.

Part time hours/flexible working will be considered in line with service need.

Full details of the Welcome Bonus can be found by clicking apply and being taken to the Jobtrain page.

Main duties of the job

By joining our vibrant and nurturing team, you will gain a wealth of experience and opportunities for leadership at an inspiring time of committed service development. Whether you bring previous experience or this is your first post-qualifying post, you will find your role invigorating and inspiring. Our CAMH services are committed to advancing equity of access, experience and outcome for all CYP in need of our services and have a range of robust service development initiatives/roles underway to achieve this.

We are passionate about being a research-active service and are committed to anchoring service development to principles of collaboration and co-production.

Working as a clinical psychologist in CAMHs will offer you a mix of opportunities for therapeutic work as well as drawing on your leadership skills. You will:

Support the MDT by offering consultation, supervision, in-house training and contributing to reflective practice/case discussions
Contribute to the development of service and therapeutic initiatives
Offer specialist assessment, formulation, intervention
Undertake care coordination responsibilities
Offer clinical supervision and host training placements for the DClinPsy
Contribute to teaching on the DClinPsy programme

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

Date posted

04 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

001888

Job locations

The Valentine Centre,Gorse Hill Hospital,

Anstey Lane,Leicester,LE7 7GX

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE7 7GX

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

Essential

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click on the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Experience

Essential

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click on the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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.