Senior Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychologist - CAMHS NDT

NHS; Luton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Une équipe de professionnels recherche un Psychologue Clinique Senior pour fournir des évaluations approfondies et des interventions pour les enfants et adolescents. Ce rôle implique également la supervision et la formation de l'équipe, ainsi que le travail avec les familles et les agences partenaires pour optimiser le soutien aux patients.

Qualifications

• Expérience dans la psychologie clinique pédiatrique au niveau Band 8a.
• Connaissances des thérapies psychologiques complexes pour les adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Coordonner l'intervention clinique pour les jeunes avec des troubles neurodéveloppementaux.
• Former et superviser d'autres cliniciens.

Skills

Communication

Empathie

Supervision clinique

Formation

Education

Doctorat en Psychologie Clinique

Formation postdoctorale en supervision

Job description

Senior Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychologist - CAMHS NDT

ELFT CAMHS is a well-established multidisciplinary service that provides a comprehensive stepped model of care for children, young people and their families in the locality. The service compromises teams of clinicians that currently includes Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Systemic Family Therapy, Community Mental Health Nurses and a variety of other key psychological therapy and clinical disciplines.

As well as providing specialist mental health assessment and intervention as part of the Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT), the Practitioner Psychologist will help to coordinate the delivery of the service, provide specialist supervision, consultation, training and direct clinical interventions. The NDT works with children and young people with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities, and those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Condition, and their carers and families.

Main duties of the job

The Bedfordshire and Luton Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT) consists of a group of highly experienced and motivated professionals who work closely as a team and with partnership agencies to provide a very well-respected service to children and their families. The team combine clinical, teaching and research skills to deliver up-to-date, evidence-based interventions for children with neurodevelopmental differences, who also have either severe behaviours that can challenge or moderate to severe mental health difficulties in both Luton and South Bedfordshire.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Job responsibilities

Contact name :

Contact job title :

Principle Clinical Psychologist- Luton and South Beds NDT

Contact email address:

Contact telephone number :

01525 638613

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

• Postgraduate (Doctoral) Training in Clinical Psychology leading to Practitioner Psychologist Registration with the HPC
• Post doctoral training in supervision.

Experience

• Some experience within the specialty of child and adolescent clinical psychology, in particular within a learning disability setting, and assessed experience of working at an equivalent to Band 8a level in child and adolescent mental health.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
• Experience of liaison and joint work with other statutory, including Social Services and Education, and voluntary agencies, including crisis management.
• Experience of the application of psychology and delivering services in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of assessing children and adolescents for therapy including risk assessment.
• Experience of providing interventions to patients with complex problems.

Knowledge and Skills

• Masters or Doctorate level knowledge of clinical psychology or counselling including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the health and welfare of children and adolescents and mental health.
• Specialist knowledge Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Positive Behavioural Reinforcement, and adapting therapy to working with young people with intellectual disabilities and ASC.
• Specialist knowledge - Complex Cases Knowledge of severe child and adolescent mental health problems, including comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment, systems of psychiatric classification and intervention.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies for complex presentations in adolescence e.g., psychosis, OCD, eating disorders, severe depression, neuro-developmental disorders and their assessment, dual diagnosis.
• Communication & Relationship skills A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to adolescent clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy and diplomacy to overcome significant barriers to understanding and acceptance often in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere.

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.

Principle Clinical Psychologist- South Beds NDT