Band 7 Clinical

Are you passionate about working with children who have encountered a difficult and traumatic start to life? Do you want to make a real difference to adopted and care experienced young people?

We have opportunities available for creative, passionate and caring Clinical or Counselling Psychologists (Band 7 or equivalent) at our clinical bases in the Midlands (Bloxwich and Shepshed).

The Child Psychology Service (TCPS) CIC is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to provide caring, therapeutic, psychological support to children and their families. TCPS provides a free-at-point-of-access service to families eligible for the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) or for funding from their Local Authority. We work closely with our colleagues in the NHS and social care to provide specialist, therapeutic assessments and interventions that aren’t always available within statutory services.

**What can we offer you?**
- Full and part time hours considered.
- A mixture of both face-to-face work in your local area (West or East Midlands) and online work nationally.
- Training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) backed up with quarterly specialist DDP supervision.
- Weekly clinical supervision and monthly journal club.
- An opportunity to specialise in attachment and developmental trauma within a team who lives and breathes PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy).
- Great benefits including competitive salary linked to NHS A4C pay scales, 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days (FTE), maternity packages and membership of a pension scheme.
- Being part of a friendly, happy and extremely dedicated team where staff wellbeing is a priority and you can manage your own workload.
- A role where Band 7s say this about working here: “It is so satisfying working with families that are motivated and engaged. TCPS really cares for its children and families without being target driven.”
- The opportunity to work for an organisation consistently rated Outstanding by OFSTED “The work undoubtedly ensures families stay together.”

**Main duties of the job / job description**
- Provide high-quality, effective assessments and therapy to children and their families remotely, and in our clinical bases.
- Provide high-quality, effective specialist assessments & therapies to looked after and adopted children
- Provide high quality, succinct assessment reports, which guide interventions
- Provide high quality, succinct evaluation reports, which demonstrate effectiveness of interventions
- Build and maintain relationships with children and their families and the professional networks around them, often in highly challenging circumstances
- Provide consultation and training to professionals in relation to their work with children
- Participate in service development projects to support the continued improvement and growth of the service
- Maintain the high reputation of the service
- Work within the service needs of a CIC
- Ensure that work is of high quality and meets the commercial needs of the service
- Reach to productivity targets set by management
- Play an active role in promoting and advocating for the service
- Ensure that all TCPS policies and procedures are understood and put into practice
- Attend and actively participate in staff development sessions, team meetings, individual or group supervision and clinical supervision and other meetings as required
- To work flexibly and occasionally work outside standard working hours to meet the needs of the service as required
- To undertake any other duties as required in line wit the scope and spirit of the job purpose, title of the post and its grading

**Essential criteria**
- Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and Registration with HCPC

**Desirable criteria**
- Additional therapeutic qualifications

**Other Requirements**

**Essential criteria**
- Own car and ability/willingness to travel for clinical visits
- Willingness to work some (infrequent) flexible hours i.e. outside typical office hours as business dictates
- Willingness to undertake further training as required
- A private home space in which to hold online clinical appointments (all equipment will be provided)
- Keep up-to-date with safeguarding training updates and uphold responsibilities laid out in the TCPS Safeguarding Policy

**Experience**

**Essential criteria**
- Using standardised and non-standardised assessment tools and developing clear, high quality psychological formulations
- Working in a professional team
- Experience and confidence in dealing with Safeguarding and Child Protection concerns
- Managing individual cases - planning, recording and reviewing
- An empathic non-judgmental approach to children, families, professionals and peers
- Skills and/or interest in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Theraplay and/or Non-Violent Resistance
- A compassionate, therapeutic approach to behavioural difficulties
- Excellent v