Lead Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist inNorth Shields inNorth Shields PUBLISHED THU 23 JAN 2025

Applications are invited for a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist to provide expert psychological support in North Tyneside CAMHS. The team caters for children and young people aged 0-18 and their families, who are affected by a variety of mental health difficulties.

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated team player who is able to strategically lead and develop the delivery of psychologically informed assessment, formulation and intervention across CAMHS service. The candidate must have substantial knowledge of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in children and young people as well as being able to deliver intervention at a specialist consultation level. The candidate must also have experience of managing a team and supervising and training at an expert level. We are keen to invest in training opportunities for the successful candidate, in order to develop skills and experience to improve service delivery and patient experience.

The post will be based at Albion Road Resource Centre, North Shields but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.

The role will involve being part of a senior leadership team in CAMHS and managing all aspects of the delivery of service including strategic, managerial, HR responsibilities as well as supporting all aspects of the delivery of psychological formulation and diagnosis a range of neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions. The post holder will represent the wider service and the Trust as a service lead and will be expected to engage fully in decisions around service modelling and delivery.

Essential Criteria

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specificallymodels of psychopathology, clinical,psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• First degree in Psychology or related subject with the British Psychological Society's Graduate Basis for Registration.
• Substantial post qualification experience and training in all aspects of mental health and neurodevelopmental diagnosis, formulation and psychological interventions in a CAMHS setting.
• Completion of training to be able to clinically supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other Health professionals.
• Completion of training in child protection and self-harm risk assessment.

Desirable

• Specialist training and qualifications in applied psychology relevant to CAMHS.

About us

To provide a senior role in the service management, development and delivery of the neurodevelopmental team in CAMHS. This will involve ensuring the systematic provision of high-quality specialist psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care. The role will involve supervising and supporting the psychologically informed assessment and therapeutic intervention provided by the team whilst also offering highly specialist advice, consultation and supervision on clinical presentations where expertise is needed in neurodevelopmental conditions.

The post holder must work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. The role will involve proposing and implementing policy or service changes to the wider health and social care structures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. CPD is supported and consideration of specialising in a relevant therapeutic intervention or specific field of special interest would be positively encouraged.

The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.