Camhs Child and Adolescent Therapist

**Child and Adolescent Therapist, Band 6 -Temporary until end March 2024**

We are looking for an enthusiastic Child and Adolescent Therapist to join the multi-disciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service working with young people and their families in West Dunbartonshire HSCP. The post is based at the Acorn Centre, Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria.

You will provide psychological therapies in Tier 3 West Dunbartonshire CAMHS team. You will undertake specialised psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions with individual or groups of children, young people and their families and undertake research, audit and service evaluation. You will work independently on allocated caseload, receiving clinical supervision from a Clinical Psychologist at regular intervals.

You will have a degree in Psychology at 2:1 or above and have some experience of working in the NHS and delivering psychological interventions to children and young people. You will work under the supervision of, and with support from a Clinical Psychologist. You will have and continue to hold Graduate Basis for Registration (GBR) with the British Psychological Society via qualification recognition or by alternative route. You will have experience of working psychologically with children, young people and their families with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and have specialist knowledge of psychology acquired through relevant NHS experience.

You will join a group of 70-80 psychologists working with children and young people in a variety of settings with good professional support and supervision and strong working relationships with other disciplines and agencies. The service has good links both with the University of Glasgow Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course and the University of Edinburgh MSc course in Applied Psychology for Children and Adolescents.

The post holder should have a driver’s licence.