Senior Applied Psychologist inBloxwich inBloxwich PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
The position demands strong leadership skills, as the post holder will be accountable for their professional practice while supervising other psychological therapists, spearheading multi-disciplinary training and service audits, and ensuring the integration of psychological perspectives in service redesign. The Trust emphasises professional development, offering supervision and training opportunities to enhance staff skills. Overall, the role is designed for an innovative individual who can deliver compassionately tailored psychological care and promote a positive image of mental health services.
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and dynamic Senior Applied Psychologist who enjoys working collaboratively and interacting with other multi agency partners to support the mental health needs of children, young people and their families. We have a full time vacancy in our multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Walsall team with the opportunity to deliver high quality and innovative psychological solutions with children, young people and their families who experience difficulties with mental health. The post holder will join our innovative multi-disciplinary Team in Walsall CAMHS where a wide range of therapeutic interventions are offered to children and young people aged 0-18 and their families. We have close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments and individual and group interventions and other tasks.
The ideal candidate will be:
Passionate about working with the children and young people seen in our community CAMH services.
Collaborative in their approach to working with children, young people, their families/carers and networks.
Excited about the opportunity to contribute to service developments.
Keen to maximize what psychologists can deliver whilst also working with, and recognising the strengths of, the multi-disciplinary team.
Able to consider providing child specialty placements to the local Doctorate Psychology Courses.
About us
Duties of the post are varied and focus on the diversity of skill that Applied Psychologists hold.
The Service recognises the importance of receiving regular supervision and of Continued Professional Development and actively supports your training and study. We are committed to staff development through shared learning, training and peer supervision. We have excellent access to leadership training.
For a full description please see the Jon Description.
Main Duties/Responsibilities
- Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to children, young people and their families with highly complex mental health difficulties which may include challenging behaviours.
- To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
- To promote at all times a positive image of mental health difficulties.
- To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
- In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:
- Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
- Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
- Provide leadership in service audit and development
- provide leadership in service evaluation and research
- Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change
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