Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Child Family Health Devon (CFHD) has developedan innovative, integrated model of childrens community services and arelooking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicatedpathways. Come and join us in beautiful Devon

We are excited to advertise a part time Band 7 ClinicalPsychology role in our Eating Disorder Pathway .

We are a friendly and dedicated pathway, working hard to improve ourservices for young people and their families. We have a number of excitingdevelopments as we are currently working on new groups to deliver to parentsand young people, new resources such as bespoke podcasts, and developing ouroffer in line with the variety of needs children and young people present with. We would love to have a new enthusiastic colleague to join us in pushinginnovation forwards.

Its an exciting time of change as we developintegrated, needs-led pathways under iThrive . We are passionate aboutour work and are committed to providing high quality services across Devon toimprove outcomes for children and young people.

We would love to hear from qualifying colleagues and those withmore experience seeking a new role in an innovative serviceat an exciting time of change.

ClinicalPsychology roles are also being advertised in other pathways so please viewadditional CFHD adverts. If you wish to apply for more than one, please submitone form with your preferences / interest listed.

Relocations funds may be available forthis post

Main duties of the job

As aClinical Psychologist in the eating disorder pathway, you will be offeringhigh-quality complex assessments and psychological input to children, youngpeople and families. You will bring advanced formulation and consultationskills alongside wider service development contributions. While eating disordersare a specialist area, you will be working with various comorbidities such asanxiety, OCD, BDD and trauma. We offer cognitive assessments as well asopportunities to develop systemic practice. This makes it a great opportunityto gain specialist knowledge whilst maintaining variety.

There will be CPD opportunities to support you. For example, colleagueshave accessed training in ARFID, AFT, TF-CBT and other models.

We are keen to support CBT for eating disorders as an offer within thepathway and would welcome applications from those already trained, or who wishto undertake further training such as CBT-E and CBT-T.

We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds andexperiences, both personal and professional.

You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management.You will be supported with a job plan and opportunities to develop supervision,leadership, research and service development skills. There is a strong andfriendly network of Clinical Psychologists working across CFHD, enjoying sharedCPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with local Doctoralcourses for teaching and Trainee placements.

About us

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust ( )

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a qualified Clinical Psychologist with passion for workingwith children, young people and families. You will have the knowledge andskills to undertake complex assessments and deliver evidence-based and outcomemonitored psychological therapies. You will be a reflective practitioner withstrengths to bring to a multi-disciplinary team and consultative work. You willbe committed to service user participation and collaborative working withchildren, young people, parents, carers and families. You will have a goodunderstanding of safeguarding across the lifespan. You will have, or be willingto develop skills and knowledge to support the development of others, such assupervision and training, as well as clinical leadership skills to contribute toquality improvement and service development.

Eating Disorder Pathway

The Eating DisorderPathway is a county-wide pathway with locality hubs within it. This role wouldideally be based either in Torbay & South Devon in our Lescaze base or ourNorth Devon base in Barnstable, dependent on the preferences of the applicantand service need.

As a ClinicalPsychologist in the pathway, you will work within a strong multi-disciplinaryteam that includes; Clinical Psychology, Systemic Psychotherapists, FamilyTherapists, Psychiatrists, Assistant Psychologists, and Mental HealthPractitioners from a range of backgrounds.

Colleaguesworking in this pathway offer specialist assessment and treatment for youngpeople who present with significant mental health concerns related to eating.You would contribute to this work as well as providing consultation and supportto other agencies and working closely with partners in paediatrics andinpatient CAMHS. You will contribute to team discussions, bringing enhancedformulation skills as well as knowledge and experience to support the teamprocesses, reflections and formulation.

There are opportunities forinvolvement in service development and research as well as activities tosupport developing leadership skills. There will be access to a supervision ofsupervision group to support development of supervision skills andopportunities to lead assessment and formulation meetings.

The Eating Disorder Pathway has established strengths in providingevidence based systemic psychotherapy intervention for Eating Disorders. Inline with our focus on evidence-based practice, we are developing our CBT offeralongside this and encourage applications from people who can support the provisionof CBT in the eating disorder pathway alongside wider work. While CBT foreating disorders will be a part of this work, comorbidities mean that ourClinical Psychologists also offer CBT for other difficulties such as OCD, lowmood, anxiety, emetophobia, PTSD etc. We would love to hear from people with aninterest in accessing further training in CBT for eating disorders includingCBT-E and CBT-T.

Main contacts:

Lucy Jay, Operations Manager forthe Eating Disorder Pathway L

James Skinner, Clinical Lead forEating Disorder Pathway-

Dr Cliodhna O Leary, SeniorClinical Psychologist, Eating Disorder Pathway

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996. Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Desirable

Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice. Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments. Experience in providing teaching and training Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate. Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice. Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required

Desirable

Experience in using neuropsychological assessments of cognitive functioning and/or learning disabilities in the context of diagnostic assessments of learning disabilities. Experience of the assessment of capacity to consent and providing consultation to capacity assessments across a range of issues.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children. High level knowledge of Clinical presentations in children and young people Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, clinic base, schools, home visits.

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