Advanced Practitioner or Counselling/Clinical Psychologist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner or a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the Hull CAMHS Looked After Children Team. We are seeking to employ an Advanced Practitioner who holds HCPC registration or a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who has experience in the assessment, formulation and therapy of children and young people with histories of trauma. The appointed clinician will join a committed multidisciplinary CLA Service within Hull CAMHS. The main duties will include consultation to professionals and other agencies, undertaking assessments of children, young people and the networks around them; offering direct therapeutic interventions informed by clear formulations. The team also provides support to the Local Authority Children’s Residential Homes.
This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to the transformational work with the vision of becoming trauma-informed and developing the AMBIT framework across CAMHS pathways.
Main duties of the job
- To provide advanced assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after, including children & young people living in residential children’s homes and foster placements.
- To offer psychological interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their carers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation.
- To contribute to complex decision making around, for example, the commissioning of external therapeutic interventions for young people and/or their carers.
- To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation, wellbeing support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.
- To deliver evidence based interventions, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.
- To contribute to complex decision making around the child’s emotional well-being and mental health needs within their placement.
- To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting young people who are looked after or are care leavers.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Qualifications, Education & Training
- Current professional registration (e.g. HCPC, NMC, SWE)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body.
- Postgraduate training in psychological therapy models relevant to the clinical area.
- Relevant Post-basic clinical qualification(s) with a professional portfolio supporting this.
- Registered with appropriate clinical professional body: e.g. Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Psychology (Educational, Counselling, Clinical or Forensic) and be registered with the relevant statutory body (NMC, HCPC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, SWE, SCW, SSSC or NISCC or BACP).
- Experience working clinically with Children Looked After presenting with complex trauma.
- Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification.
Knowledge and Experience
- Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice.
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi – professional and multi -agency partnerships.
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
- Able to produce written reports to a high standard.
- Experience producing psychological formulations.
- Ability to support and engage foster carers and other professionals.
- Experience facilitating group reflective sessions.
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.
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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