Are you looking for an opportunity for a fixed term Principal Psychology post in Learning Disability CAMHS Covering a maternity leave. We are looking for a thoughtful, knowledgeable and engaging Clinical Psychologist to join our committed LD CAMHS team based in Suffolk. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced or looking to gain Principal Psychologist experience. We are looking for applicants ideally with clinical experience of working with this cohort of young people, however, we welcome experienced psychologists considering a change of speciality.

The team works with young people, their families and carers, with moderate-severe learning disability and mental health issues presenting in a variety of ways. Experience of working with complex family and professional systems will be important, as well as good knowledge of neurodevelopmental and cognitive difficulties.

The team is multi-disciplinary, with psychiatry, nursing, behaviour therapy, support work and assistant psychology. Trainee clinical psychologists are often on placement with the team.

You will be part of the senior leadership of the team with the psychiatrist and service manager.There are leadership opportunities within this role as the team is developing practise . This is an exciting opportunity to drive change and develop your leadership and change management skills.

Main duties of the job

There are developments within our Suffolk Child, Family and Young Person care group, and increasing collaboration with other neurodevelopmental teams, especially ADHD. There are also external transformation developments regarding neurodevelopmental assessment with multiagency colleagues across Suffolk, and you would have a role in contributing to all these.

Alongside, or in collaboration with other senior staff, you will attend clinical meetings e.g., with other stakeholders supporting those in this client group at risk of Tier 4 admission, multi-agency meetings, including with paediatric and social care colleagues, transition meetings.

You will provide consultation to other teams.

You will have a key role in clinical leadership of the team, particularly bringing psychological approaches to understanding and planning casework and to teamwork and functioning. The team is striving to develop practise, including formulation, goal planning, outcome measurement, and defining roles in the context of other services relevant to the client group.

You will have a lead role in providing and/or overseeing clinical supervision for your team.

You will undertake direct clinical work with a range of cases

You will be well supported in your role through peer networks (including other Principal Psychologists, and your team co-leads), supervision (with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist) and the leadership team

About us

NSFT is engaged in a process of significant and exciting change with a new Suffolk-wide care group for Children, Young People and Families. Recent CQC inspection has shown improvements in the services which we plan to build on as we transform the Suffolk CFYP Services.

We have a new leadership structure and are engaged with internal and external transformation, and psychology is represented at the highest level within this. NSFT in collaboration with alliance partners are striving to deliver a truly biopsychosocial approach within the 'Thrive' framework. This will require significant system changes across Suffolk to move towards a whole system approach and to improve care for our young people and their experience of services.

We believe in our Trust values of together, positively and respectfully with regards to our service users, as well our colleagues.

The LD CAMHS Team is a secondary community mental health team within the care group. The team works alongside others such as the core CAMHS teams, ADHD, Autism diagnostic team, Connect (Looked after children), Wellbeing, Schools, Eating Disorders, Youth and Crisis.

There is a range of improvement work within the service line, with a focus on outcome measures, people participation, improving assessment, formulation and care planning, and building better links with voluntary agencies and other stakeholders, for example.

Job description
Job responsibilities

To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service for people with complex mental health problems across the Service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the Service. Tosupervise and support the psychological assessment and intervention provided by other psychologists (newly qualified and trainees) and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.Where required, to contribute specialist psychological skills and advice with regards to the design and implementation of strategic planning, organisational and service developments, staff training and support initiatives within the Service, NSFT and to other professionalorganisations.To undertake specialised clinical work within the Service and with external agencies, which will include assessment, direct and indirect intervention, supervision, training and consultancy. To provide specialist knowledge and consultation to staff at all levels and contribute to their development.To utilise research and training skills and knowledge for audit, policy and service development, research activity and other programmes within the Service.Be responsible for accurate mental health clustering of all patients on admission, discharge and at review if applicable.

Opportunity to work in a Joint Post with the University of East Anglia
We are strongly committed to working together with the University of East Anglia ClinPsychD Course through the creation of joint posts.
All of our clinical psychology posts come with the opportunity to workas a regional tutorup to 1 day a week as part of the UEAClinPsychDTeam. If this is something you would be interested in we would be very happy to discuss this prior to application or at interview, contact details are at the bottom of this advert.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential

• Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS
• Registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Desirable

• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Experience
Essential

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologis
• Experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours and exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.

Desirable

• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.

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