Clinical Psychologists, Child

**Clinical Psychologists**

At CMCAFS, we are constantly looking for Clinical Psychologists who are a good fit for our team. If you think this might be you, please do get in touch.

At Changing Minds Child and Family Services (CMCAFS), we want to make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and those who support them through:

- Providing high quality, innovative, meaningful and sustainable work that leaves an impact on both people and overall systems.
- Reaching groups where traditional models of service delivery would not be accessible or meet their needs and being able to offer something different and meaningful to them.
- Recognising the expertise that we bring, whilst acknowledging what we don’t know everything and working with others to reflect, develop and learn, with ongoing openness and development of our skills and expertise.
- Building a community (hub) of good psychologically-informed practice.
- Supporting, valuing and developing our people - recruiting and retaining the ‘right’ people, with a focus upon ongoing development and learning. Connecting with, reflecting with and supporting each other: being a team that lives its values.
- Having a voice and be able to influence the wider systems impacting upon children, young people and their families.

**Changing Minds Child & Family Services (CMCAFS)**

**Full-time**: 37.5 hours (part-time hours will be considered) **Base**: North-West

**Salary**: Dependent upon experience

**Closing Date for Applications**:No set closing date

We have some exciting opportunities for Clinical Psychologists to join our Child & Family Services team.

**_What we do_**

Our Child and Family services are a small team of Applied Psychologists who pride ourselves in providing high quality, innovative, meaningful work with children, young people and the systems that support them. At CMCAFS, we aim to support people, organisations and wider systems collaboratively and compassionately through creative psychological practice. We work closely with a range of organisations, at both a regional and national level, to provide quality psychological consultation and support, including children’s charities, Local Authorities, youth justice organisations, fostering and adoption support services, educational settings, and residential care.

We provide specialist psychological services for children, young people, families, and teams and organisations who support them. This involves supporting our partner organisations to provide a range of innovative services which strive to be truly psychologically informed, attachment and trauma-responsive, and meaningfully helpful. We work with senior leaders and practitioners from various services across health, education and social care to incorporate systemic psychological thinking and attachment/trauma-responsive practice into their organisations. We also support organisations to consider how we can measure meaningful outcomes when working with young people in systems that are trying to address a complex range of social, emotional, developmental and mental health needs. As a service, we are keen to work closely with universities and research teams to evaluate what we do, pilot new services, and design new, innovative provisions based upon evidence-informed practice. We also recognise the importance of strengthening connection, reflection and looking after each other when working with young people, families and organisations who may be dealing with the impact of high levels of distress and trauma.

**_Available roles_**

We are looking for a full-time (although part-time hours would be considered) Clinical Psychologists to join our team. As part of their role, the postholder would undertake a range of activities such as: providing psychological consultation to teams; supporting organisations to develop and implement therapeutic frameworks; psychological assessments, formulations (individual and team) and therapeutic work with children and families; developing and facilitating training sessions; facilitating staff support and reflective practice; undertaking service development tasks; and providing supervision as appropriate.

We are looking for psychologists who are compassionate and empathic, playful, and who enjoy working as part of a team. They must have integrity, good self (and other) awareness, be hardworking and an effective communicator. They must also be courageous and able to sensitively challenge and influence others. These posts would be a good fit for someone who is interested in working flexibly, creatively and innovatively to address the needs of children and young people, who may find it difficult to access mainstream services.

As a team, we offer a highly supportive environment, with lots of opportunities for innovative working, collaboration with others in the team and the agencies that we work with, ongoing development opportunities, and a broad range of experiences. We aim to ‘look after our pe