CAMHS – Applied Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)

NHS; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join their dedicated team. This role involves providing high-quality psychological assessments and interventions to children and young people facing emotional and mental health challenges. Collaborating within a multi-disciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to enhance your professional skills while making a meaningful impact on the lives of families in the community. If you are passionate about supporting young individuals and have the expertise to navigate complex psychological landscapes, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Doctoral training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology required.
• Registered Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC / ACP essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people.
• Manage a caseload with complex psychological issues and develop tailored intervention strategies.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Communication skills

Emotional robustness

Adaptability in intervention strategies

Education

Post Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC / ACP

Tools

Assessment tools and methodologies

Word processing software

Job description

CAMHS – Applied Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling)

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucester Core CAMHS Team is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Clinical Psychologist or Counselling psychologist. The Gloucestershire Core CAMHS Team provides high quality assessments and interventions to children, young people and families within Gloucestershire. CAMHS is part of a wider Children and Young People's Directorate where we are developing integrated ways of working with physical health colleagues, including Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and School Nurses. Our service is embedded in strong values which put children and families at the heart of what we do.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of the Psychological Services Team in Gloucestershire, which includes CBT, Systemic, Creative and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as well as Clinical Psychologists. We work in teams across the directorate and there are many opportunities for shared learning and development.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Job responsibilities

Provide a range of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment interventions in line for children and young people (0-18yrs) and their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities. Provision will be in accordance to the relevant Professional Specialist Competencies Framework and Code of Practice.

To carry a caseload and provide a direct service for psychological issues which demand more than a standard therapeutic approach. (e.g. Basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) may have been tried unsuccessfully, methods may need significant adaptation, particular challenges exist in maintaining a therapeutic relationship.)

To draw appropriately from a range of assessment tools and methodologies. To interpret and integrate complex data and information from a variety of sources to develop psychological formulations and identify the most relevant intervention strategy. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.

To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.

To maintain appropriate records in electronic or hard copy in line with Trust policies and Professional guidelines. Includes workload data and using word processing skills to produce client related reports.

To work primarily within a multi-disciplinary approach/team where a variety of opinion and expertise is brought to bear on a situation.

To act as care coordinator where the psychological complexity of the case means it makes sense to do so. Ensuring the provision of an appropriate care package for the child and his / her family.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, as accredited by the BPS
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC / ACP

Length & / Or Nature of Experience

• Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical aggression
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
• Broad range of post-qualification experience, preferably working at a highly specialist level in an increasingly autonomous capacity

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• According to Professional qualification a Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, including how to integrate complex (and potentially contradictory) aspects of development, functioning and presentation into a formulation. Knowledge of research methodology and design (consistent with Chartered Psychologist status where professionally appropriate).
• Advanced knowledge: For Psychologists: HCPC Registration qualifies Psychologists to work in any of a wide range of disciplines.
• Significant hours of post qualification CPD

Personal Skills Abilities and Attributes

• Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others.
• Ability to adapt style and/or assessment and intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex clients / situations

Other Requirements

• This is a community-based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.
• Some CAMHS posts will require working from community sites or other CAMHS satellite bases on a routine basis

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.