Specialist Psychologist

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Psychologist to provide a psychology service within the Durham and Darlington CAMHS Single Point of Access. We are looking for someone who has experience within CAMHS and will play a pivotal role in the clinical leadership team ensuring the assessment and outcome of CYP being referred into CAMHS is effective. The post holder will offer supervision, advice, consultation and training to other members of the team, and will play a key role in continuing to develop integrated working of the team.
This vacancy is open to either a newly qualified Psychologist / Psychological Therapist or an experienced Psychologist / Psychological Therapist with appropriate Job Description and banding being applied accordingly to the successful candidate. Successful candidates who are newly qualified Psychologists/Psychological Therapists will be expected to work towards the competencies of the higher band within an agreed time frame; The post holder will offer supervision, advice, consultation and training to other members of CAMHS team, and will play a key role in continuing to develop the multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working of the team. There will be opportunity to work with a small caseload within our getting help services. The successful candidate will be under the support and guidance of a Consultant Psychologist within the CAMHS service.
The post will cover the Durham and Darlington CAMHS Teams. Experience of working with young people and families is important, as well as the ability to work effectively within the multi-disciplinary team and with our multi-agency partner organisations. We are keen to support the ongoing development of Psychologists through training and CPD opportunities. The post holder will receive regular supportive supervision and work closely with psychology colleagues across the wider psychology team in CAMHS.
There is a well-established and supportive Psychological Professions Network within the wider Durham and Tees Valley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services supported by a highly motivated team of senior managers and clinical leads. Strong links exist between the service and local training courses in clinical psychology, counselling psychology and psychological therapy. Applied Psychology is highly valued within the Trust with good professional support. The Trust is a strongly value based, person centred organisation which has taken a strategic approach to continued service improvement, the modernisation of clinical roles and the use of care pathways embedded within a functioning system of governance.
To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academys Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
Trained in care co-ordination
Evidence of continuing professional development
Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings or if applying at Band 7 experience of working within mental health
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
Risk assessment and risk management
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
D&D CAMHS SPA - Mulberry Centre
Rowan Building, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Willow Road
Rowan Building, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Willow Road
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