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Clinical Psychologist - BRS

Employer
Solent NHS Trust
Location
Southampton
Salary
£41,659 to £47,672 a year
Closing date
1 Jun 2023

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Profession
Mental health, Psychologist
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Job summary

The Building Resilience and Strengths (BRS) team has an exciting opportunity opening for the role of a Specialist Clinical Psychologist. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary integrated CAMHS team, delivering high quality interventions to children, young people and their families presenting with a range of psychological difficulties and complex life experiences.

The BRS is joint funded by Solent NHS and Southampton City Council Children's Services. Staff are employed through each agency but work together as one team under a single management structure and service specification. Following the Southampton City Council's Destination 22 transformation, the service will deliver both a Crisis Intervention service and a Therapeutic service, with dedicated multi-disciplinary staff in each pathway. The role of the Specialist Clinical Psychologist will be primarily based within the Therapeutic pathway but close working relationships with professionals from the Crisis Intervention pathway will allow for robust transition plans between the pathways as required.

In the BRS, there is often a high level of complexity in the children and young people we see. The role will regularly involve offering assessments and specialist interventions to children and young people who have experienced trauma, including complex trauma.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a confident CAMHS professional with a demonstrable track record of providing good quality evidence-based interventions, improving service quality, and an interest in service development. We would welcome applications from clinical psychologists who have an interest in trauma and share our passion for delivering the best quality care experience for children and their families.

We currently have a varied intervention offer for our children and young people (including DDP, DBT, family therapy, psychotherapy, play therapy, trauma-focused CBT and attachment-focused therapies) and are looking at opportunities to expand this offer, including through further training of our staff team. Therefore, you would have opportunities to gain training, skills and experience in a diverse range of therapeutic approaches. As a band 7 there will also be opportunities to supervise assistant psychologists in the team and to offer consultation to other disciplines.

There will be a strong focus on training and consultation to other services in trauma informed practice as well as considering how this work will be evaluated. This is a role you would be closely supported with by the Principal Clinical Psychologist in the team.

The BRS is a strong and supportive team and has excellent structures to offer regular supervision and support. We would be committed to offering a comprehensive induction plan and support package to ensure you felt welcomed and settled into the team.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Professional

*To conduct specialist psychological assessments for clients referred to the team and to use, interpret and integrate complex-data from a variety of sources including psychometric, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, school reports and semi-structured interviews. Assessments will be conducted with clients, family members/carers and other professionals and non-professionals involved in the client's care and carried out across the full range of care settings including clinic, home and school.

*To formulate and implement highly specialised evidence-based interventions for the psychological treatment and/or management of mental health and/or behavioural difficulties for children and young people with complex needs choosing from a range of options and psychological models.

*To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

*These interventions will require collaboration and joint working with other colleagues for the purpose of providing on-going case management.

*To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group, as well as the current context the client is within.

*To exercise appropriately autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

*To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulations, diagnoses' and treatment plans as appropriate.

*To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of clients in the service.

*To select and administer a range of psychometric tests in a highly accurate and skilled manner to the required standard and provide up to date assessment reports.

*To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. Also, to work within Solent NHS Trust's child protection policies, guidelines and procedures, and to work within both professional and service risk management structures.

*To act as a care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing of care plans under CPA including clients, their families and carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.

*To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans in a skilled and sensitive manner and to monitor progress regularly.

*To use the appropriate clinical outcome measures and client satisfaction measures, drawing upon the relevant research and relating to the theory-practice models employed, and using the results for improving practice.

Communication

*To compliment the work of other members of the multi-disciplinary team by undertaking as co-worker specific therapeutic work with children / families as part of agreed treatment programmes consistent with own skills, knowledge and scope of practice.

*To manage and prioritise own workload, competing demands and clinical commitments with support from line manager as required.

*To participate in clinical supervision, ensuring supervision received is appropriate to the therapeutic work being undertaken and is in line with guidelines laid down by the British Association of Art Therapists.

*To liaise and joint work with colleagues, other professionals and agencies as required in relation to both clinical work and the wider agenda of working in partnership within a multi-agency framework.

*To participate in team clinical meetings in order to share expertise, promote good practice and the safety of clients.

*To participate in referrals meeting as required. Making clinical decisions as part of this group regarding the appropriateness of new referrals in line with referral criteria. Assessing the level of clinical need for referrals accepted and communicating outcomes to referrers.

Administrative

*To communicate effectively through written notes and reports and verbal communication with all relevant personnel involved in the YP's care.

*To possess IT skills in order to effectively communicate in writing with colleagues, other professionals and families in accordance with trust policies e.g., writing of comprehensive report

*To participate in clinical supervision, ensuring supervision received is appropriate to the therapeutic work being undertaken and is in line with guidelines laid down by the regulatory body

*To liaise and joint work with colleagues, other professionals and agencies as required in relation to both clinical work and the wider agenda of working in partnership within a multi-agency framework.

*To participate in team clinical meetings in order to share expertise, promote good practice and the safety of clients.

*To participate in referrals meeting as required. Making clinical decisions as part of this group regarding the appropriateness of new referrals in line with referral criteria. Assessing the level of clinical need for referrals accepted and communicating outcomes to referrers.

Knowledge, Education and Training

*In common with all Clinical Psychologists and in line with professional standards, to receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior Clinical Psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

*To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience and training relevant to clinical psychology above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed, negotiating time for this with the Senior Psychologist

*To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other team member's psychological work, as appropriate.

*To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.

* To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client groups across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

*To maintain skills in word processing for formal report writing and recording of meetings, maintain electronic data management and data analysis skills for use in assessment, audit, evaluation and research.

*To undertake Solent NHS Trust's Child Protection Training and appropriate mandatory training within 6 months of taking up the post.

*To undertake appropriate research and provide research consultation, supervision, support and advice to other staff undertaking research as appropriate.

*To contribute to audit and service evaluation within the service to help develop service provision.

*To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Senior Psychologist.

*To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines. To attend regular Child Clinical Psychology meetings for peer review and support, and to play an active role in the development and implementation of professional policy, standards and guidelines as appropriate.

*To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, Health Professionals Council and Trust policies and procedures.

*To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both children and mental health and social care.

*Participate in local and national events and take up specific duties and roles as agreed with the Senior Psychologist and Service Manager.

*Contribute to the development and implementation of Clinical Governance in relation to the profession, the care group and the Trust, as agreed by the Service Manager.

Management and Leadership

*To continually develop as an evidence-based practitioner through use of theory, evidence-based literature and research, as a key component of the job, and to support the development of evidence-based approaches within the multi-disciplinary team and the wider service as appropriate, taking leadership roles where required and as appropriate.

*To ensure records are maintained by the team ensuring compliance with the agreed record keeping systems of the Trust.

*To ensure informed consent is obtained where appropriate and documented in accordance with Trust procedures.

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