Specialist Psychotherapist

Caretech

Hereford

On-site

GBP 42,000 - 66,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Cambian Group Plc is seeking a clinical psychology professional to work with the Branas Isaf service team, delivering specialist assessments, interventions, and research support for children and young people aged 10-18 with complex needs.

The role involves contributing to risk assessment, collaborating with education and care staff, and participating in weekly DBT activities and MDT meetings. Flexibility for out-of-hours work may be required.

Responsibilities

Providing a specialist psychology service for all clients of the service.
Providing psychologically informed consultation to teams, training and assisting with service development.
Conducting psychometric and risk assessment and developing formulations.
Providing and evaluating individual and group-based interventions (including Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).
Providing specialist psychological research expertise to the service.
To contribute to psychological assessment and formulation of individuals and groups, for example through direct observation, psychometric testing, semi-structured interviews and writing appropriate reports.
To provide individually tailored psychological interventions to meet the needs of allocated clients.
To support the integrated team to implement programmes arising from such assessment and individually tailored psychological interventions.
To provide written assessments/reports in a timely manner and/or contribute to MDT reports and attend meetings as required.
To monitor and evaluate programmes and advise managers when problems and difficulties arise.
To be actively involved in the weekly Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) consult team meetings, DBT skills group and contribute to monitoring fidelity to the treatment model.
To contribute to the management of risk with the wider integrated team.
To ensure appropriate confidentiality.
To liaise with Registered Managers, education staff and other members of the multi-agency team, including external professionals.
To represent the clinical team within external and in-house meetings (where appropriate).
To engage flexibly with clients and other members of the integrated team at Branas Isaf, families and multi-agency team to promote constructive working relationships. This may include out of normal hours work.

Job description

ROLE OF DEPARTMENT

The clinical team work within the wider integrated team of professionals at Branas Isaf, applying psychological knowledge and expertise to service users and professionals within the group (e.g. education and care staff). Primarily, the clinical team support children and young males aged 10-18 who present with a number of complex interpersonal, emotional and behavioural issues a number of the young people within our care have experienced significant trauma.

The clinical team are responsible for:

Providing a specialist psychology service for all clients of the service.
Providing psychologically informed consultation to teams, training and assisting with service development.
Conducting psychometric and risk assessment and developing formulations.
Providing and evaluating individual and group-based interventions (including Dialectical Behavioural Therapy).
Providing specialist psychological research expertise to the service.
To contribute to psychological assessment and formulation of individuals and groups, for example through direct observation, psychometric testing, semi-structured interviews and writing appropriate reports.
To provide individually tailored psychological interventions to meet the needs of allocated clients.
To support the integrated team to implement programmes arising from such assessment and individually tailored psychological interventions.
To provide written assessments/reports in a timely manner and/or contribute to MDT reports and attend meetings as required.
To monitor and evaluate programmes and advise managers when problems and difficulties arise.
To be actively involved in the weekly Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) consult team meetings, DBT skills group and contribute to monitoring fidelity to the treatment model.
To contribute to the management of risk with the wider integrated team.
To ensure appropriate confidentiality.
To liaise with Registered Managers, education staff and other members of the multi-agency team, including external professionals.
To represent the clinical team within external and in-house meetings (where appropriate).
To engage flexibly with clients and other members of the integrated team at Branas Isaf, families and multi-agency team to promote constructive working relationships. This may include out of normal hours work.