Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Driffield
- Salary
- Depending on experience
- Closing date
- 7 Aug 2024
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- Profession
- Mental health, Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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We are looking to appoint a permanent full time Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to our core CAMHS team in East Riding. The team works with a range of presentations, including anxiety, low mood, self-harm and trauma. It is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Creative Therapist, Family Therapists, CBT Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Administrators and Support workers. Successful applicants will have access to regular supervision and support from experienced Clinical Psychologists working within the service.
This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to transformational work with the vision of becoming trauma informed, and work being undertaken by the wider children's mental health, developmental and learning disability services around care pathways. We also have a strong focus on evidence based practice and the use of routine outcome measures. There is a commitment to ongoing staff training to enable practitioners to have accredited therapeutic and supervisory skills. We are also working towards having more participation from young people and their families in directing service development.
Main duties of the job
o To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients of a particular service area, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
o To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists and Band 7 psychologists, when needed, and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.
o To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and implementation of highly specialist psychological interventions, and the delivery of quality care in collaboration with service users, staff, managers, other agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas.
o To support the MDT with complex case formulation and consultation and service developments in line with Trauma Informed Care.
o To utilise research skills by contributing to the initiation and coordination of audit and research within the relative service area.
o There will be a requirement to provide a service between 8.00 am - 6.00 pm over a 5 day Monday - Friday period, to meet the needs of children and young people and service delivery. This may be subject to change dependant on service need.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
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.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Find out more and search live jobs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details attached to the advert.
For discussion about the role please contact Dr Joanne Robinson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on Tel: 07966 184114 Email: joanne.robinson58@nhs.net and/or Kelly Allen, Clinical Team Lead on Tel: 01377 208280 Email: kellyallen1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rivendell House
Union Street
Driffield
YO25 6AT
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
338-6464583-24
This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to transformational work with the vision of becoming trauma informed, and work being undertaken by the wider children's mental health, developmental and learning disability services around care pathways. We also have a strong focus on evidence based practice and the use of routine outcome measures. There is a commitment to ongoing staff training to enable practitioners to have accredited therapeutic and supervisory skills. We are also working towards having more participation from young people and their families in directing service development.
Main duties of the job
o To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients of a particular service area, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
o To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists and Band 7 psychologists, when needed, and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.
o To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and implementation of highly specialist psychological interventions, and the delivery of quality care in collaboration with service users, staff, managers, other agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas.
o To support the MDT with complex case formulation and consultation and service developments in line with Trauma Informed Care.
o To utilise research skills by contributing to the initiation and coordination of audit and research within the relative service area.
o There will be a requirement to provide a service between 8.00 am - 6.00 pm over a 5 day Monday - Friday period, to meet the needs of children and young people and service delivery. This may be subject to change dependant on service need.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
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.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Find out more and search live jobs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details attached to the advert.
For discussion about the role please contact Dr Joanne Robinson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on Tel: 07966 184114 Email: joanne.robinson58@nhs.net and/or Kelly Allen, Clinical Team Lead on Tel: 01377 208280 Email: kellyallen1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
- Completed Supervision Training
Desirable
- Previous CAMHS experience
- Additional Training in therapeutic approaches
Employer details
Employer name
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rivendell House
Union Street
Driffield
YO25 6AT
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
338-6464583-24
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