Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Job Title: Clinical Psychologist

Grade: Band 8B

Trust: Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Location: Orchid house, 83 Radford Road , Leamington Spa, CV31 1JQ and Stratford health centre, Coventry, CV1 4JH

Hours: hours per week, Mon-Fri

Main duties of the job

Coventry& Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are rated Good in their most recentCQC report as well as being recognised as a Global Digital Exemplar. The Trustworks across 101 locations including 5 hospitals, delivering community andmental health services to 1 million people. The Trust also has exciting plansto transform care for mental health, Musculo-skeletal conditions (MSK),learning disabilities and autism. This includes a brand-new state-of-the-artRainbow Unit, providing facilities for inpatients with a learning disabilityand/ or autism

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job description

Job responsibilities

Toprovide specialist psychological assessments for children and young peoplereferred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, andintegration of data from a variety of sources including psychological andneuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct andindirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,family members and others involved in the clients care.

Toformulate, implement and recommend plans to multi-disciplinary colleagues,professionals in other agencies and parents/carers for the formal psychologicaltreatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon anappropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employingmethods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.

Tobe responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychologicalinterventions with children, young people, and their families with complex andsevere mental health problems by demonstrating the ability to synthesisedifferent explanatory models and adjust/refine psychological formulations toguide specialist interventions.

Toevaluate and make decisions about appropriate and evidence-based treatmentoptions, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complexfactors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual,family, or group.

Toprovide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to otherprofessionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis, andtreatment plan.

Toundertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, youngpeople, and their families, and to provide advice to other professionals on thepsychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. This includescontributing the CAMHS self-harm and duty response rotas

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of managing complexity and risk 4 plus years working within a child mental health service Supervision experince with CAMHHS Experience of managing complexity and risk

Qualifications

Essential

Must have a Clinical psychology doctorate and be registered with the HCPC

Desirable

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of: Relevant Qualifications Registration with the relevant Registration Body

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