Clinical Psychologist

**Salary**: £74,625 - £78,300 (SCP 67 - 69) (pro rata - part time hours)

Hours: 2 days/14 hours per week.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
The Specialist Intervention, Health & Wellbeing (SIHW) Team is a specialist psychological, assessment and trauma informed service working directly with our young people who present with a range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges and who can pose a risk to themselves and to others. The SIHW Team offers a therapeutic environment to work directly with our young people to provide highly specialist psychological services, assessment, consultation and risk formulations.

The provision of specialist, therapeutic and comprehensive psychological service ensures our young people and others involved in their care and support have access to high quality assessments and interventions which address a range of needs and take account of relevant risk factors and formulations.

As a Clinical Psychologist, you will oversee, enhance and deliver interventions using a range of psychological assessment tools and formulations. You will provide specialist clinical knowledge, support, and guidance to the relevant members of SIHW Team ensuring all psychological interventions are evidenced based.

You will provide supervision to the trainee/assistant psychologists and other multi-disciplinary practitioners in the team. You will provide advice and guidance on psychological care to other professionals, carers and families. As part of a multi-disciplinary organisation, you will actively contribute towards the training and support of staff involved in the delivery of specialist interventions to young people

**Provision of high-quality consultation to professionals and service users regarding mental health, risk assessment formulation and risk management.**
- Delivery of effective assessments, formulations and interventions to meet the bespoke needs/profile of our young people.
- Lead responsibility in the preparation of formulations on/with all young people understanding past difficulties and identifying their strengths to work towards better futures
- To oversee and support the progress of effective risk formulations to ensure collective understanding between all relevant staff involved in the care of the young people.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate treatment options, drawing on all relevant theoretical and therapeutic models, while understanding young people’s complex historical and developmental factors
- Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, and treatment of young people on the psychological element of their care plans.
- Ensure appropriate referrals of young people who require CAMHS or other specialist services and contribute to internal and external meetings as required.

**To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of the psychological service by all members of the team.**
- Provide specialist psychological advice and guidance to Care, Education and health professionals
- Take a lead role in ensuring oversight and support for determining psychological processes, trauma and attachment practice
- To provide expert consultation about the care of the client group to forums beyond the consultation clinics e.g. conferences and represent the service

**Develop high quality, responsive and accessible intervention service for our young people advising on elements of the service where psychological matters pertain to our young people**
- Undertake complex and specialised risk assessments and risk management plans for all young people to ensure their safety and that of others
- Work collaboratively with Care and Education Teams, advising of appropriate risk and behaviour management strategies.
- Provide professional advice to other staff in managing risk behaviours
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, drawing on relevant theoretical and therapeutic models, while understanding young people’s complex historical and developmental factors
- Lead in the running of therapeutic groups as required ensuring specialist input is available.

**To provide specialist advice, consultation and training to staff in the SIHW Team.**
- Provide professional advice, guidance and training to colleagues to promote understanding of psychological interventions and risk formulations as part of multi-disciplinary working.
- Provide clinical supervision/appraise and oversee the workload of Assistant/Trainee Psychologist(s)
- Provide placements and supervision for Doctoral and Masters Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other Applied Psychologists.
- Maintain and develop personal skills in the area of professional and post-graduate training in assessment, formulation, treatment and clinical supervision
- Engage in clinical supervision as per professional guidelines

**To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the service.**
- To review, develop and make representation as appropriate on new practices