An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Forensic or Clinical Psychologist to lead our dedicated Forensic CAMHS team.

The Regional Forensic CAMHS team champions trauma informed interventions for young people with a range of needs often including a combination of mental health, neurodiverse and forensic presentations. Our aim is to help teams understand risk from a psychological perspective, and to assist in changing lives for vulnerable young people.

This work primarily involves support of professional networks around the young person, some direct work with young people and their families/carers, and the provision support to residential placements, and secure settings. The team benefits from a multi-disciplinary approach, including nursing, social work, psychology, and psychiatry all of whom contribute to care and treatment plans and supporting local services across the region to manage risk. Much of this work is online professional consultation online, but there will also be some travel across the region to see young people, where required.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the delivery of the service, and providing clinical and management supervision to junior psychologists and the wider team. The team also has links with the National FCAMHS team to ensure alignment with national thinking, best practice, and training to drive ongoing development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the Regional Forensic CAMHS team undertaking the following tasks:

*To maintain, and further develop, links with key agencies across the region.

*To provide a clinical / forensic psychology service to young people, across the South West region.

*To develop and undertake psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions with this client group.

*To provide advice to psychologists and other professionals working with young people in local CAMHS services, Children's Social Care, Youth Offending settings and secure settings

*To liaise closely with psychologists and other professionals working in specialist services.

*To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

*To utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development.

*Provision of clinical supervision for staff, trainees and volunteers employed by, or attached to the service.

About us

As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts.We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL

1.To provide comprehensive psychological/specialist assessment based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests. Personality and risk assessment, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and other involved in the client's care. of young people.

2.To offer specialist assessments specific to your professional discipline where appropriate.

3.To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors, concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group

4.Establishing, maintaining, and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with young people, and their families. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of, and skills in evidence based and psychosocial interventions.

5.Providing time-limited intervention, sometimes over substantial periods of time whilst preventing dependency on mental health services. Identifying appropriate discharge goals and working positively with risk using own professional judgement and team processes

6.To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters, and families. To provide specialist guidance regarding mental health and well-being to colleagues in NOMS / probation services. To ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team have access to a specialist psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of specialist psychological research and theory.

7.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant clients and provide advice on risk to the multi-disciplinary team relevant to your discipline including understanding and responding to safeguarding issues.

8.To consult with, and provide specialist mental health and psychological guidance to families, school staff and other relevant professionals directly involved with the care of the young person.

9.To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner verbally and in writing highly complex and sensitive information in a manner appropriate to a range of settings and audiences, including complex, highly emotive situations.

10. To promote equality of outcome for clients that reflect their mental health needs and those of ethnicity, gender, culture physical health and age.

11.To promote social inclusion and physical and mental well-being using evidence-based practice. This is underpinned by the principles of hope and recovery, health promotion and relapse prevention.

12.To be responsible for own work and interventions with highly complex presentations as an autonomous practitioner and to seek consultation appropriately from supervisor and colleagues.

13.To exercise independent clinical professional judgement in complex clinical cases and difficult clinical situations, referring to team members when necessary.

14.To monitor, evaluate and record progress during intervention, assessing and re-evaluating as necessary, within the framework of the Care Programme Approach (CPA) including outcome measures.

15.To work collaboratively within the Regional Forensic CAMHS Service and with other teams in England to undertake a range of procedures and practices underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practice.

16.To be responsible for maintaining and influencing professional standards in relation to government policy, frameworks, and Trust directives.

17.To manage their own diary, balancing competing priorities and demands

18.To follow safeguarding protocols and processes as part of their daily practice.

19.To write reports summarizing complex information to guide clinical care.

20.To undertake evidence-based risk assessments, including Structured Professional Judgment instruments, and report effectively.

LEADERSHIP:

1.To provide day-to-day leadership, supervision, and coordination of the work of less senior staff within the team as appropriate.

2.To provide advice, consultation and training and clinical supervision to other members of the Service/other agencies for the provision of psychologically based/specialist interventions to help improve clients' functioning.

3.To provide training to the Regional Forensic CAMHS team and staff in other agencies that is in line with the level of the post.

4.To contribute to team leadership and to work with senior colleagues to help develop and improve the service

5.To encourage a culture of evidence-based practice in all parts of the service

6.To participate regularly in the agreed systems for supervision.

7.To professionally supervise psychology staff, trainees, and volunteers.

8.To participate annually in the agreed system of appraisal.

9.To monitor and support other staff's programmes of care for young people.

10.To supervise trainees and volunteers and other less senior staff.

11.Respond to identified needs in the staff team for training and teaching in psychological/specialist skills as agreed within the job plan.

12.To provide pre- and post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to clinicians as appropriate and agreed within the annual job plan.

13.To maintain and develop skills in professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

14.To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in service delivery, individual work, and work with other clinicians

15.To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Doctoral Clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent as accredited by the British Psychology Society (BPS).
• *Eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychologist status.
• *Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Desirable

• *Relevant specialist CPD qualification (Diploma/ Masters etc.).
• *Management training/ qualification.
• *Training in neuropsychological and developmental assessment.

Experience

Essential

• *Significant experience of working with young people and families who present with a range of mental health difficulties.
• *Experience of working with clients with high-risk presentations within CAMHS settings, such as self-harm, suicidal thoughts and actions and harm to others.
• *Experience of working in multi-agency teams and multi-agency service planning.
• *Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• *Significant experience in assessing and managing risk and supporting teams in this process.
• *Experience and understanding of safeguarding children and relevant legislation and policies.

Desirable

• *Experience of working across service settings and agencies.
• *Experience of service development/project work.
• *Experience of managing staff.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Psychological/ neuropsychological assessment and formulation skills.
• *Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• *Organisational and leadership skills.
• *Recognition of the impact of diversity of ethnicity, belief, privilege and capacity for young people and their families
• *Full UK driving licence, with access to a car for work purposes.

Desirable

• *Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and therapies for use with young people with high-risk presentations.

Employer details

Employer name

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Horizon Centre

Bathpool

Taunton

Somerset

TA2 8BY

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