Consultant Clinical Psychologist
1 month ago
Job summary
Are you a compassionate, authentic, inspiring leader who wants to make a difference? Do you want to work in a multiagency environment where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for children, young people and their families?
Bradford District Care Foundation Trust in partnership with Barnardo's West Yorkshire Keyworker Service and NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are developing and leading a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service across Bradford and Craven. You will also have a role in shaping this new service.
We are looking for a HCPC Registered, highly motivated, experienced and reflective Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has both passion for and experience of working with children, young people, parents/carers and their families and the system around them including inpatient contexts. You will lead the psychological service as Consultant Clinical Psychologist for autistic children and young people and those with a learning disability and complex needs on the Dynamic Support Register and the Complex Support Needs Panel in Bradford.
Closing Date- 10th June 2024
Main duties of the job
This post would be ideal for someone who has already worked as an experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist in children's services with experience and expertise in autism, learning disabilities and complex needs and inpatient settings and is looking for an opportunity to extend and apply their skills in a post with senior leadership responsibilities and service development.
You will clinically supervise the Assistant Psychologist within the Service, identifying and supporting CPD needs. Through consultancy, clinical supervision, reflective practice, team formulation, training and clinical case management, you will help the wider team create an innovative and effective service that adheres to best practice guidelines and the delivery of high-quality care.
You will provide assessment, formulation and care planning and support the system to enable the needs of children young people are effectively met. It is felt the added benefit to this process will be the independence third sector brings. You will share system wide learning, system leadership and strategy routinely to all affiliated providers.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Overview Continued-
If you enjoy being an influential leader, are a forward and creative thinker who wants to make a real and meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people and support their families, we would be delighted to hear from you. You will autonomously work within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice, supported by BDCFTs CAMHS service and the chief Psychological Professions Officer. You will develop and lead a trauma-informed service, ensuring that psychological perspectives are central to everyone's thinking.
Barnardo's currently provide the West Yorkshire Keyworker Service and are effectively placed to host this service and develop and deliver this programme of work. Though employed by BDCFT you will initially be seconded to and operationally managed by Barnardos (for at least the first 12months). Continuance of this arrangement will be influenced by the evaluation of added value to the system by the post holder and other key stakeholders.
Meeting training and clinical supervision needs: Specialist Clinical supervision and professional leadership will be provided by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Other identified training needs will be identified as the team develops the work and in their roles.
Could this be the role for you? If so, please read the job description and we will look forward to reading your application.
Main Duties Continued-
The caseload will be led by the Bradford Complex Support Needs Panel and Dynamic Support Register, based on children and young people who are at high risk of a hospital admission due to mental health crisis, or those who are currently detained in a hospital and require leadership and coordination within a discharge planning context.
The team will work closely with service users, clinicians, local communities and the ICB, as well as providers, Health and Local Authority Commissioners and voluntary Sector partners. They will also be responsible for providing assurance on delivery to the panel, working closely and ensuring linkages with the Transforming Care Programme in the partnership.
As Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will:
Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; working at a senior role level with credibility and influence. Raise the profile of and embed the autism and learning disability related commitments, understanding of the NHS and social care landscape. Have clear parameters and expectations, but there will be opportunities to positively shape and influence the portfolio and build and develop important relationships with stakeholders and partners.Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Doctorate level training in clinical or applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or a BPS Statement of Equivalence OR equivalent from another modality HCPC accredited
Desirable
Leadership training/qualification
Experience
Essential
Significant experience in relevant area of mental health practise. Clinical leadership experience Experience of teaching, training, supervision and consultation. Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Significant post qualification experience and training. Experience of mutlt-agency working
Knowledge
Essential
Significant clinical knowledge relevant to shared care mental health (multi-agency working) Evidenced based psychological therapies relevant to service area. Doctoral / master's level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis. Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff. Evidence of continuing professional development. Highly specialist clinical knowledge relevant to a service area.
Skills
Essential
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Well developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Well developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, intervention and management. Well developed skills in individual and group work and in programme planning. Able to make autonomous decisions using judgement. Ability to supervise learners and other staff. Competent teaching skills.
Desirable
Writing for publication skills.
Attitude
Essential
Commitment to ethos of the clinical service and MDT working. Aware of racial, culture and gender issues. Commitment to trauma informed ethosWe have other current jobs related to this field that you can find below
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