Job summary
This is
an exciting new role to lead on the psychological care offered to young people
(age 16-25) supported by the Leaving Care Team. You will work closely with the young
persons (YP) network to support a psychologically informed understanding of
their emotional and mental health needs by providing consultation and
trauma-informed formulation to professionals and carers and working directly
with YP where clinically indicated.
This is a part time role working 22.5 hours
You
will be part of the CLA Psychology Service, a service provided to
Herefordshire's care experienced YP; supporting professionals, carers and
children. You will also be part of a team of psychologists in Herefordshire
CAMHS working with children with complex difficulties.
You
would be expected to have a strong visible presence in the Leaving Care Team,
working closely with Personal Advisors and Social Workers in supporting YP who
are care experienced and provide a link role between CAMHS, AMH and Social Care.
This post has been created to increase the therapeutic offer to YP leaving
care. Experience of offering trauma informed and attachment-based interventions
with an understanding of the challenges this client group faces is essential
for this role.
Main duties of the job
In the exciting new post, you
would be expected to offer:
Highly specialist
assessment for children in collaboration with social workers, personal
advisors, carers and the wider professional network.
Highly specialist
trauma-informed and attachment based psychological interventions, 1:1 and
groups.
Trauma-informed
formulation and consultation to social care teams, including complex risk
management planning, to inform pathway planning.
Supervision and
advice to social care teams to support a trauma-informed and psychologically
informed understanding of CLA needs.
Close collaboration
with other services supporting CYP, e.g. Adult Mental Health, Safe Connections,
EPs.
Provide specialist
advice on recommendations from specialist assessments.
Provide advice and
liaison to professionals where a referral to CAMHS or Adult Mental Health for
specialist intervention is required.
Use
outcome/psychometric measures to monitor the effectiveness and experience of
CYP and professionals.
Keep high quality
documentation and contribute to reports evaluating the role, identifying areas
for improvement.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,
we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals
and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health
and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of
all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over
100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible
working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,
and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value
diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,
and ethnicities.
What we offer;
-
27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to
33 days with long service
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Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work
unsocial hours
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Flexible and agile working opportunities
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Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
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Wide range of supportive staff networks
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Health and wellbeing opportunities
If you would like to know more, please visit our
website.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants for this post would need to demonstrate strengths
in:
Being able to engage and empower
children, young people and the adults supporting them using psychological
interventions and psychologically informed practice based on best clinical and
professional evidence.
MDT and multi-agency working and
using consultation approaches to support the therapeutic care to children and
young people.
Clinical supervision skills and being
able to adapt these to professionals with different levels of training and
knowledge of childrens mental health and trauma-informed care.
Experience of providing teaching on
childrens mental health, trauma-informed care and attachment using both formal
and informal teaching opportunities.
Use of outcome measures, gaining and
learning from feedback to improve and develop services.
For full details of the duties and criteria
please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants for this post would need to demonstrate strengths
in:
Being able to engage and empower
children, young people and the adults supporting them using psychological
interventions and psychologically informed practice based on best clinical and
professional evidence.
MDT and multi-agency working and
using consultation approaches to support the therapeutic care to children and
young people.
Clinical supervision skills and being
able to adapt these to professionals with different levels of training and
knowledge of childrens mental health and trauma-informed care.
Experience of providing teaching on
childrens mental health, trauma-informed care and attachment using both formal
and informal teaching opportunities.
Use of outcome measures, gaining and
learning from feedback to improve and develop services.
For full details of the duties and criteria
please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge required specific to the role and clinical area.
- Advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches for people with psychological problems including specialised psychological assessments and interventions for patients with complex psychological presentations and physical health conditions.
- Well-developed psychometric assessment skills.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis, as practiced within the field of Clinical/Counselling Psychology.
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in psychology.
- Post graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Post qualification training in specific, evidence based techniques for use with clients with complex psychological presentations and/or physical health difficulties, across the age span.
- Evidence of regular further professional training and experience as required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the BPS.
- Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS.
- Eligible for registration as a Practitioner member of the BPS Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology.
- Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
- Role modelling good behaviour.
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
- Highly developed and effective communication skills, both oral and written, including ability to communicate complex, highly personal and sensitive information.
- Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately.
- Able to communicate effectively within the team and build good sound working relationships.
- Good presentation and teaching skills; able to use multi-media materials for both formal large group situations and small informal settings.
- Ability to use IT equipment including literature searches, data bases, patient information systems.
- Able to prioritise own work and deal with competing demands to work effectively, within a highly stressed work environment.
- Committed to promote patients right, independence and choice e.g., through informed consent for interventions.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Experience
Essential
- Experience required specific to the role and clinical area.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience working as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within the relevant area.
- Sufficient training and experience to be recognised by the Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology as a suitably qualified psychologist to offer clinical placements to trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists.
- Training and experience in the application of psychological knowledge within a number of different specialties.
- Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to patients presenting with the full degree of clinical severity and across a range of clinical mental health presentations.
- Experience of conducting clinically relevant research.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge required specific to the role and clinical area.
- Advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches for people with psychological problems including specialised psychological assessments and interventions for patients with complex psychological presentations and physical health conditions.
- Well-developed psychometric assessment skills.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis, as practiced within the field of Clinical/Counselling Psychology.
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in psychology.
- Post graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Post qualification training in specific, evidence based techniques for use with clients with complex psychological presentations and/or physical health difficulties, across the age span.
- Evidence of regular further professional training and experience as required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the BPS.
- Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS.
- Eligible for registration as a Practitioner member of the BPS Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology.
- Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
- Role modelling good behaviour.
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
- Highly developed and effective communication skills, both oral and written, including ability to communicate complex, highly personal and sensitive information.
- Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately.
- Able to communicate effectively within the team and build good sound working relationships.
- Good presentation and teaching skills; able to use multi-media materials for both formal large group situations and small informal settings.
- Ability to use IT equipment including literature searches, data bases, patient information systems.
- Able to prioritise own work and deal with competing demands to work effectively, within a highly stressed work environment.
- Committed to promote patients right, independence and choice e.g., through informed consent for interventions.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Experience
Essential
- Experience required specific to the role and clinical area.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience working as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within the relevant area.
- Sufficient training and experience to be recognised by the Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology as a suitably qualified psychologist to offer clinical placements to trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists.
- Training and experience in the application of psychological knowledge within a number of different specialties.
- Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to patients presenting with the full degree of clinical severity and across a range of clinical mental health presentations.
- Experience of conducting clinically relevant research.
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).
