This is an exciting new role to lead on the psychological care and interventions offered to children living in care, working closely with the childs network to support psychologically informed understandings of their emotional and mental health through consultation, assessment and trauma-informed formulation, providing advice and consultation to professionals and foster carers, and working directly with children and young people where clinically indicated.

You would be part of a team of psychologists in Herefordshire CAMHS working with children with complex difficulties. Herefordshire CAMHS is a well-established, effective team where Psychologists are highly valued.

You would be expected to have a strong visibly presence in the Childrens Social Care teams working closely with Social Workers in supporting children who are care experienced and provide a link role between CAMHS and Social Care, providing consultation, formulation and advice. This post has been created to increase the therapeutic offer to children who live in care and so experience of offering trauma informed and attachment based interventions is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

• Highly specialist assessment for CIC CYP in collaboration with social workers, foster carers and others professional in the network
• Highly specialist trauma-informed and attachment based psychological interventions
• Trauma-informed formulation and consultation to social care teams, networks including complex risk management planning
• Supervision and advice to social care teams to support a trauma-informed and psychologically informed understanding of CYP needs and care planning
• Close collaboration with other services supporting CIC, e.g HIPSS, EPs in the Virtual School.
• Provide specialist advice on recommendations from specialist assessments for CYPs.
• Provide advice and liaison to professionals where a referral to the CAMHS for specialist intervention is required, e.g. CAMHS Eating Disorders Team, CAMHS LD.
• Use outcome/psychometric measures to monitor the effectiveness and experience of CYPs and professionals.
• Keep high quality documentation and produce regular reports evaluating the role, identifying areas for improvement

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Applicants for this post would need to demonstrate strengths in:

Being able to engage and empower children, young people and the adults supporting them using psychological interventions and psychologically informed practice based on best clinical and professional evidence.

MDT and multi-agency working and using consultation approaches to support the therapeutic care to children and young people.

Provide Compassionate clinical leadership to professionals who practice psychological approaches and promote trauma-informed psychologically informed knowledge and understanding to professionals working with CIC

Clinical supervision skills and being able to adapt these to professionals with different levels of training and knowledge of childrens mental health and trauma-informed care.

Experience of providing teaching on childrens mental health, trauma-informed care and attachment using both formal and informal teaching opportunities.

Use of outcome measures, gaining and learning from feedback to improve and develop services

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• Role modelling good behaviour
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Highly developed and effective communication skills, both oral and written, including ability to communicate complex, highly personal and sensitive information
• Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately
• Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately
• Able to communicate effectively within the team and build good sound working relationships
• Good presentation and teaching skills able to use multi-media materials for both formal large group situations and small informal settings
• Ability to use IT equipment including literature searches, data bases, patient information systems
• Able to project-manage changes in relation to clinical practice and/or governance and operational issues
• Able to prioritise own work and deal with competing demands to work effectively, within a highly stressed work environment
• Committed to promote patients right, independence and choice e.g., through informed consent for interventions

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology
• Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Post qualification training/ experience in specific, evidence based techniques for use with clients with complex psychological presentations and/ or physical health difficulties, across the age span
• Evidence of regular further professional training and experience as required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the BPS
• Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS
• Eligible for registration as a Practitioner member of the BPS Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology
• Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Experience

Essential

• Experience required specific to the role and clinical area
• A minimum of 4 years of experience working as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within the relevant area
• Experience of leading in relation to the development and organisation of psychological interventions within a given clinical area
• Sufficient training and experience to be recognised by the Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology as a suitably qualified psychologist to offer clinical placements to trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists
• Training and experience in the application of psychological knowledge across range of mental health presentations, including organic illness, functional mental health, and physical health
• Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to patients presenting with the full degree of clinical severity and across a range of clinical mental health presentations across the life span and care settings
• Experience of multi-agency/ multidisciplinary working
• Therapeutic expertise in working with carers/families/couples
• Experience of conducting clinically relevant research

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge required specific to the role and clinical area
• Advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches for people with psychological problems including specialised psychological assessments and interventions for patients with complex psychological presentations and physical health conditions
• Well-developed psychometric assessment skills
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis, as practiced within the field of Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

CAMHS, 1st Floor, Benet Building

Ruckhall Lane

Hereford

HR2 9RP

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