Consultant Applied Psychologist

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting new role that will work across all children's services within City of York Council, providing expertise, support, and guidance, the candidatewill have a strong strategic influence in the development of our Building Brighter Futures practice framework. You will work closely with senior managers to ensure that our ambitions for children and young people in York are realised and that positive outcomes are achieved.

Candidates should be significantly experienced clinicians with excellent interdisciplinary working skills and interested in developing and delivering innovation. A proven track record of clinical leadership contributing to the collective leadership of the multi-agency team and supervisory experience in the field of community child and adolescent mental health is essential.

The post holder will have a proven track record of working with vulnerable and care experienced children, young people, families and carers, in health or local authority settings, many of whom have experienced trauma and can have multiple, complex needs.

Main duties of the job

Supporting the development and delivery of a trauma informed approach that will upskill practitioners across children's services, both in social care and education.

Support a range of professionals in delivering support to children and young people and their families/networks who are classed as high risk and high vulnerability through consultation, formulation and risk assessment.

Provide highly specialist psychological assessment of young people with severe and enduring conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individuals and provide highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks.Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of young people' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice.Implements a wide range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

Provides expert psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to young person's diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

The City of York has a rich and fascinating history and is known throughout the world for its academic excellence.

We are a relatively small but dynamic local authority with huge ambitions and aspirations for our children, families and communities; relentless in our determination that all children and young people in York get 'a better start in life'.

We have a reputation for delivering high quality services, however, we're not complacent and with true Yorkshire resilience, we constantly strive for further improvement.

We need practitioners who are passionate, skilled, innovative and people-centred. People who want and are driven to make the difference to families, to our team, and for themselves.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide a range of consultant level roles and responsibilities as detailed within the job description. This will include the delivery of highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions to children and their families through direct clinical work with children and families, offering clinical supervision and consultation, staff training alongside leading on service development and evaluation.

We are looking for someone creative and flexible to work in partnership with health and social care. The post holder will provide consultation, teaching, training to health and local authority colleagues and psychological assessment and intervention to young people who present with a range of risks and needs.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. 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. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

CAMHS Service Manager

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• 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
• Registration with BPS

Personal Attributes

• Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact and Trust Values and Behaviours.
• Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances
• Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
• Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
• Committed to continual quality and service improvement
• Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, theories and application.

Other Requirements

• Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need.

Experience

• Must have substantial experience of:- Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team.
• Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
• Research and development
• Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives.
• Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession.

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.

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