CAMHS Clinical Psychologist for Looked After Children | Jersey • Jersey Health and Community Services
Thank you for your interest in the position of CAMHS Clinical Psychologist for Looked After Children | Jersey
in Jersey
with Health and Community Services.
Interview Progress What to expect
Continue below
You've already answered some of these questions.
We've
marked the ones that you've done with a check
You can continue the interview below.
First, we'll enable your camera & microphone and then ask you to record a short introduction about yourself, about 30 seconds long, to make sure your camera is working ok.
{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nCAMHS Clinical Psychologist for Looked After Children | Jersey with Health and Community Services in Jersey, Channel Islands\n\n Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children? CAMHS are building on our offer for Looked After Children on the island, the psychologist will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, specialised psychological services to our island's most at-risk youth and their families. As a Clinical Psychologist, you will conduct highly specialised assessments, develop tailored care plans, and implement evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. Your expertise will be crucial in conducting high-level risk assessments and managing associated risks, ensuring each child receives the comprehensive support they need. In addition to direct clinical work, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including teachers, social workers, and voluntary sector workers, fostering a holistic approach to care. You will also provide clinical consultation and supervision to team members, ensuring the highest standards of psychological practice. Providing training to the system in aid of supporting the young person. CAMHS is expanding its services to enhance support for the island's most vulnerable children. This includes developing and coordinating intensive multi-agency care packages and extending our services to children in residential and foster care settings. Your role will be integral to this exciting development, offering the opportunity to be at the forefront of service innovation and delivery. Deliver a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to children and families in the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. This will involve providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and interventions to young people and their families who are presenting with highly complex needs and presentations, utilising a range of psychological approaches and interventions. About us Provide highly specialised psychological assessments for young people, based on the use, interpretation and integration of complex data in order to formulate complex plans for psychological intervention and make highly skilled evaluations about treatment options Implement, monitor and evaluate a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals and groups across a variety of settings and in partnership with other therapists when necessary, to provide high-quality, timely and tailored support to all clients. Develop and co-ordinate intensive multi-agency care packages and therapeutic interventions for young people and their carers with complex and acute presentations, necessitating intensive outreach, intensive client support and high-level risk management to ensure that each individual client receives the support they need when they need it. Deliver high-level risk assessments regarding risk of suicidality, harm to self and others for adults across a range of community locations, in order to make complex clinical decisions regarding level of risk and appropriate management of this, taking into account the young persons presentation and wider systemic factors. Provide advice and support to other professionals working with young people with mental health issues e.g teachers, social workers, workers in the voluntary sector, in order to facilitate a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to case management, formulation, and intensive care packages. Provide formal and informal clinical supervision to other members of the multi-disciplinary team Lead the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service through the active demonstration of good management and maintenance of a caseload, undertaking appropriate risk assessment and management and providing consultation and support to other professionals and policy/business planning processes, in order to ensure the service meets agreed protocols, legislative requirements and best practice standards. Maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording and report writing, and preparation of materials to meet legislative requirements and to support the dissemination and understanding of psychological concepts and ideas. Carry out small scale research projects applicable to service development and carry out audits of service provision, to support the implementation of evidence-based good practice in the clinical work of the service. Be involved and support Line managers in service development and delivery of KPIs. Statutory responsibilities The postholder will have to comply with all relevant States Laws, such as the Health and Safety at Work (Jersey) Law 1989 and any other associated legislation, Standing Orders, Financial Directions, and other relevant Codes of Practice, in respect of managing the key project deliverables of programmes and costs through the active management of procurement, approval, financial and administrative procedures. To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work (Jersey) Law, 1989 To work in accordance with the Data Protection (Jersey) Law; This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner. "}