Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist inDriffield inDriffield PUBLISHED
THU 9 JAN 2025
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust rejI9aGy
The position emphasises ongoing professional training, enhancing therapeutic and supervisory skills, and promoting participation from young people and families in service improvement. The psychologist will play a key role in case formulation, consultation, and collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring quality care throughout the service. Work hours will typically be from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday to Friday, adapting to meet service needs.
We are looking to appoint a permanent full time Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to our core CAMHS team in East Riding. The team works with a range of presentations, including anxiety, low mood, self-harm and trauma. It is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Creative Therapist, Family Therapists, CBT Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Administrators and Support workers. Successful applicants will have access to regular supervision and support from experienced Clinical Psychologists working within the service.
This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to transformational work with the vision of becoming trauma informed, and work being undertaken by the wider children's mental health, developmental and learning disability services around care pathways. We also have a strong focus on evidence based practice and the use of routine outcome measures. There is a commitment to ongoing staff training to enable practitioners to have accredited therapeutic and supervisory skills. We are also working towards having more participation from young people and their families in directing service development.
o To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service to clients of a particular service area, by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
o To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees, assistant psychologists and Band 7 psychologists, when needed, and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.
o To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and implementation of highly specialist psychological interventions, and the delivery of quality care in collaboration with service users, staff, managers, other agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas.
o To support the MDT with complex case formulation and consultation and service developments in line with Trauma Informed Care.
o To utilise research skills by contributing to the initiation and coordination of audit and research within the relative service area.
o There will be a requirement to provide a service between 8.00 am - 6.00 pm over a 5 day Monday - Friday period, to meet the needs of children and young people and service delivery. This may be subject to change dependant on service need.
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