We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Psychologist/Psychological Therapist to provide a service within the Durham and Darlington CAMHS Getting Self Help Service. We are looking for someone who has experience within CAMHS and will play a pivotal role in the clinical leadership team ensuring the assessment and outcome of CYP being referred into CAMHS is effective. The post holder will offer supervision, advice, consultation and training to other members of the team, and will play a key role in continuing to develop integrated working of the team. A knowledge of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy interventions and supervision is crucial.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will offer supervision, advice, consultation and training to other members of CAMHS getting Help Team, and will play a key role in continuing to develop the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working of the team. There will be opportunity to work with a small caseload within our getting help services. Service development ideas and innovation in the role are encouraged and welcomed. The successful candidate will be under the support and guidance of a Consultant Psychologist within the CAMHS service

About us

The post will cover the Durham and Darlington CAMHS Getting Help Teams. Experience of working with young people and families is important, as well as the ability to work effectively within the multi-disciplinary team and with our multi-agency partner organisations. We are keen to support the ongoing development of Psychologists through training and CPD opportunities. The post holder will receive regular supportive supervision and work closely with psychology colleagues across the wider psychology team in CAMHS.

There is a well-established and supportive Psychological Professions Network within the wider Durham and Tees Valley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services supported by a highly motivated team of senior managers and clinical leads. Strong links exist between the service and local training courses in clinical psychology, counselling psychology and psychological therapy. Applied Psychology is highly valued within the Trust with good professional support. Leadership skills and behaviours are integral to the recruitment process. The Trust is a strongly value based, person centred organisation which has taken a strategic approach to continued service improvement, the modernisation of clinical roles and the use of care pathways embedded within a functioning system of governance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification which outlines the main duties and responsibilities of the role. Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academys Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Trained in care co-ordination
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Registration with BPS

Experience

Essential

• Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings or if applying at Band 7 experience of working within mental health
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, training and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
• Research and development
• Quality and service improvement and evaluation

Desirable

• Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Risk assessment and risk management
• Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
• Evidence-based practice relevant to the role
• Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
• Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Negotiable as covering all of Durham and Darlington

Negotiable as covering all of Durham and Darlington

DL14 6AE

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