Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our innovative multi-disciplinary Emotional & Behavioural Team (EBT3) in Bedford CAMHS. We are currently doing hybridworking.
EB3 offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions to young people aged 5-18 and their families. Wehave close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments andcompleting individual and group interventions.
We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work withservice users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment. The teamis part of Bedfordshire CAMHS which is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of 2emotional and behavioural teams, a LAC team, a CAMHs schools team, a parent-infant psychotherapyteam, a paediatric team, a GP team, an adolescent mental health team, a crisis team and an eatingdisorders service and Neurodevelopment Team. We also have embedded workers in Early Help, CDC andsocial care.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to children, young people and their familiesin the North of Bedfordshire and will be based in our CAMHS hub in Bedford. The successful post-holderwill directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post-holder will be expected to hold a high degree of autonomy and to contribute to service developmentprojects as well as line management and clinical supervision of other team members.
About us
Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS is a highly comprehensive service with a reputation of being flexible and innovative in meeting the complex mental health needs of Children and Young People, and their Parents/Carers. There are a number of teams, such as the Adolescent Mental Health Team and Crisis Team, Emotional & Behavioural Teams, Neurodevelopmental Team, and our Access Pathways. There is a broad spectrum of disciplines and a long tradition of effective multidisciplinary and interagency working.
Bedford, close to the M1 is easily reached by rail and car from North London, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (and / or eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical Psychologist), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society and registered with HCPC.
Desirable
- Training in delivering supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient and community.
- Experience of helping to plan care with other members of an MDT including setting tasks for assistant and trainee psychologists.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families, and the ability to demonstrate specialist training/experience including having practiced as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months and having received regular supervision from an appropriately qualified Psychologist; or met alternative criteria agreed by the Consultant Lead
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal hostility and abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of MDT and Inter agency collaboration
Desirable
- Experience of completing neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments and then offering intervention.
- Experience in using client feedback Outcome Measures to improve quality
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge and experience of working with children with mental health issues.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and a range of therapeutic models.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and national policy in relation to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice, and evidence base for specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. ASD, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (and / or eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical Psychologist), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society and registered with HCPC.
Desirable
- Training in delivering supervision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient and community.
- Experience of helping to plan care with other members of an MDT including setting tasks for assistant and trainee psychologists.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families, and the ability to demonstrate specialist training/experience including having practiced as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months and having received regular supervision from an appropriately qualified Psychologist; or met alternative criteria agreed by the Consultant Lead
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal hostility and abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of MDT and Inter agency collaboration
Desirable
- Experience of completing neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments and then offering intervention.
- Experience in using client feedback Outcome Measures to improve quality
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge and experience of working with children with mental health issues.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and a range of therapeutic models.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and national policy in relation to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice, and evidence base for specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. ASD, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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).
