Clinical Psychologist

Job summary
The North Stoke CAMHS Team are looking to recruit to a part-time Band 7 Clinical Psychologist on a fixed term basis until 6 March 2028.

The successful candidate will:

• Be accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to children, young people and families experiencing complex mental health concerns and distress or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.
• Be compassionate in meeting the needs of children, young people, their carers and families.
• Provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Undertake formal research as an integral part of the job.
• Be pro-active in continual service improvement within own area.
• Promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.

Main duties of the job

• Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
• Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.
• Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
• Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
• Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies.

About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Job responsibilities

• Analyses complex client information, derived from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with the client, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries with service users.
• The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need.

Qualifications
Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, inpatient settings. Some experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems.
• Experience of working with children, young people and families and carers.

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Doctoral level knowledge of Evidence-based practice relevant to the role

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).