Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist – CAMHS
We are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our busy CAMHS team to cover maternity leave for 12 months. The post will sit within our well‑established core CAMHS pathways.
Job Summary
Provide a qualified specialist CAMHS clinical psychology service to clients of the service, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy including Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies and psycho‑dynamically informed psychotherapies.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the CAMHS Service.
Take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery.
Provide supervision to qualified and pre‑qualified staff.
Offer expert consultation to partner agencies and other professionals within the multi‑disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.
- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams.
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both therapeutic and theoretical models and highly complex factors.
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
- Provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals.
- Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professionals and team members on risk assessment and risk management.
- Act as care co‑ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
- Offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester – Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are really proud of #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
- Access to Continued Professional Development.
- Involvement in improvement and research activities.
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.
Job responsibilities
Please see detailed job description and person specification. Please note this role is for maternity cover for 12 months.
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 BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with BPS.
Desirable
- Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Specialist training in therapeutic work with children, young people and families.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist (with demonstrable experience at a specialist level).
- Experience of working with children and young people presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings 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 working with families and carers.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a MDT care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi‑disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and young people and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Desirable
- Well‑developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for children and young people.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric testing, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well‑developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi‑media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends.
Work related circumstance
Essential
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Pennine Care NHS FT
Address
CAMHS, Birch Hill Hospital, Birch Road, Wardle, Rochdale, OL12 9QB, United Kingdom
£57,528 to £64,750 a year pro rata
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