Child Clinical Psychologist

Band 7 Preceptorship Child Clinical Psychologist
- Core CAMHS

This post will be based within the Lincoln Core CAMHS hub with outreach support to other CAMHS hubs where needed.

Professional and clinical supervision for the post holder will be provided by a more experienced clinical psychologist within CAMHS and line management supervision will be provided by a core CAMHS team coordinator. The posts has become available due to current employee promotion into highly specialist child clinical psychologist roles within the service showing excellent staff development opportunities within the Trust.

To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT core CAMHS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.

To develop and provide a range of specialist clinical psychology assessments and interventions either as the sole clinician or in conjunction with other CAMHS colleagues; with other staff and agencies responsible for providing services to children and young people and their carers and families. To act as case coordinator / lead professional where appropriate.

To develop and provide a range of specialist clinical psychology assessments and interventions to vulnerable children and young people including Looked After Children; children and young people who have mild to severe Learning Disabilities; children who are at risk of contact with, or who have contact with, the Youth Justice Service.

To provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who have been the victims of sexual abuse.

To provide specialist clinical psychology assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who are presenting with sexually concerning behaviours

To provide specialist developmental assessments, including cognitive assessments, to help understand underlying learning difficulties which may be impacting on a young persons presentation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

The LPFT core community CAMHS follows evidence based assessment and treatment pathways for a range of mental health and behavioural presentations and the Specialist Child Clinical Psychologist will be expected to provide some of the therapies indicated on these pathways (eg systemic therapy; trauma based therapy; attachment based therapy, CBT) and be able to provide these interventions to service users on an individual basis as well as within a group format. The successful applicant will also be expected to provide supervision and consultation to other staff as appropriate.

The provision of detailed specialist clinical psychology assessments and formulations is an intrinsic part of the clinical psychology role within core CAMH