Job summary
We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist who wishes to join our team. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients and staff receive quality and compassionate care.
We are excited to advertise a permanent Principal Clinical Psychologist (30 hours) post in our multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) service, following an expansion of our psychological therapies provision. This expansion has created input from psychology to the specialist eating disorder pathways, enabled psychological provision to be developed in our crises outreach pathway and enhanced provision within the longer-term psychological therapies' anxiety, depression, trauma, and functional difficulties pathways.
We are a fully inclusive service and therefore some of our young people experiencing mental health difficulties also have Intellectual Disabilities or are Neurodiverse.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist who can work closely with our Consultant Psychologist to ensure the quality of our psychological provision and develop psychological knowledge and skills across our workforce. The team are passionate about ensuring the child's voice is central to the work they do and working in partnership with families and other partner agencies support services to achieve the outcomes desired by the child or young person. We strive for high quality and innovative practice. We would be delighted to hear from you if you value these things too.
About us
Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.
This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.
We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.
On 1st July 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible, with support from the Consultant Psychologist, for ensuring the highest quality psychology provision across the CAMHS pathways with duties to include:
- The professional development and clinical supervision of Assistant Psychologists and lower banded qualified psychologists/psychological therapists.
- Teaching and training delivery to grow psychological knowledge and formulation skills across the MDT.
- Leading on service development and quality improvement projects within the service that would ensure good clinical outcomes and timely delivery of psychological assessment and interventions.
- Holding a clinical caseload and delivering assessment and interventions as a highly specialised Clinical Psychologist.
- Providing specialist consultation to the CAMHS team and to other partner agencies for complex cases.
- Working with the Consultant Psychologist to deliver on strategic aspects of psychological provision across the Trust.
Your continued professional development will be actively supported. We recognise how development of our professionals grows compassionate and evidence-based care for our young people and their families.
We have strong links with the clinical psychology doctoral training course at the University of Southampton and provide training placements. This gives the opportunity to act as clinical supervisor and provides avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.
To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible, with support from the Consultant Psychologist, for ensuring the highest quality psychology provision across the CAMHS pathways with duties to include:
- The professional development and clinical supervision of Assistant Psychologists and lower banded qualified psychologists/psychological therapists.
- Teaching and training delivery to grow psychological knowledge and formulation skills across the MDT.
- Leading on service development and quality improvement projects within the service that would ensure good clinical outcomes and timely delivery of psychological assessment and interventions.
- Holding a clinical caseload and delivering assessment and interventions as a highly specialised Clinical Psychologist.
- Providing specialist consultation to the CAMHS team and to other partner agencies for complex cases.
- Working with the Consultant Psychologist to deliver on strategic aspects of psychological provision across the Trust.
Your continued professional development will be actively supported. We recognise how development of our professionals grows compassionate and evidence-based care for our young people and their families.
We have strong links with the clinical psychology doctoral training course at the University of Southampton and provide training placements. This gives the opportunity to act as clinical supervisor and provides avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.
To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through doctoral training, supplemented by post qualification short specialist courses and further specialist training/specialist clinical experience & clinical supervision
- Formal post-qualification training in clinical supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. Personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Aptitudes
Essential
- 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 mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain good clinical practice.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration combined with proactive engagement during individual and group therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Abilities
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential 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 exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan.
- Experience of taking a lead psychology role and holding responsibility for service development initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through doctoral training, supplemented by post qualification short specialist courses and further specialist training/specialist clinical experience & clinical supervision
- Formal post-qualification training in clinical supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. Personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Aptitudes
Essential
- 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 mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain good clinical practice.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration combined with proactive engagement during individual and group therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Abilities
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential 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 exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan.
- Experience of taking a lead psychology role and holding responsibility for service development initiatives.
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
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).
