Clinical Psychologist inLichfield inLichfield PUBLISHED 1 OCT 2024
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Are you a newly qualifying Clinical Psychologists seeking a Band 7-8a development post in 2024?
Or are you a Band 8a looking to work in a collaborative team where the clinical work is varied and complex? A
team that offers a voice to their young people and families?
Meet our team:Meet our Learning Disability CAMHS Team (youtube.com)
2024 looks set to be a significant year of development for our psychological services workforce in South Staffordshire Children and Young People's Learning Disability Team (CYP LD TEAM), working alongside our specialist CAMHS services.
The successful candidates will benefit from being part of a programme of development and improvement in the psychological work offered across our five Specialist CAMHS Teams. We are prioritizing strong clinical leadership, high quality psychological practice and psychologically informed specialist CAMHS provision. Psychological practice across CAMHS will be further assured by the development of a strategy for psychological professions and psychological practice within our CAMHS transformation programme.
The position is based in Lichfield and will cover South Staffordshire. The candidate will work alongside our current Clinical Psychologist and be part of the wider MDT, which includes Nursing, OT, SALT and Psychiatry.
We are also able to consider requests for flexible working and/or reduced hours (minimum 0.8 wte)
- To provide specialist psychological assessments, within the areas of agreed responsibility, of children and young people whose have a diagnosis of moderate to severe learning disabilities, as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment process.
- Assessments will involve the interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided clinical inquiry methods with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility, within professional guidelines, for the assessment, therapeutic treatment and discharge of children and their families/carers. The post-holder will exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within their work. You will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management regarding individual clients.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the young person, parents or family/carers.
Before applying to join our wonderful team, we encourage applicants to view and read the job and person specification
Are you a newly qualifying Clinical Psychologists seeking a Band 7-8a development post in 2024?
Or are you a Band 8a looking to work in a collaborative team where the clinical work is varied and complex? A
team that offers a voice to their young people and families?
Meet our team:Meet our Learning Disability CAMHS Team (youtube.com)
2024 looks set to be a significant year of development for our psychological services workforce in South Staffordshire Children and Young People's Learning Disability Team (CYP LD TEAM), working alongside our specialist CAMHS services.
The successful candidates will benefit from being part of a programme of development and improvement in the psychological work offered across our five Specialist CAMHS Teams. We are prioritizing strong clinical leadership, high quality psychological practice and psychologically informed specialist CAMHS provision. Psychological practice across CAMHS will be further assured by the development of a strategy for psychological professions and psychological practice within our CAMHS transformation programme.
The position is based in Lichfield and will cover South Staffordshire. The candidate will work alongside our current Clinical Psychologist and be part of the wider MDT, which includes Nursing, OT, SALT and Psychiatry.
We are also able to consider requests for flexible working and/or reduced hours (minimum 0.8 wte)
- To provide specialist psychological assessments, within the areas of agreed responsibility, of children and young people whose have a diagnosis of moderate to severe learning disabilities, as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment process.
- Assessments will involve the interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided clinical inquiry methods with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility, within professional guidelines, for the assessment, therapeutic treatment and discharge of children and their families/carers. The post-holder will exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within their work. You will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management regarding individual clients.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the young person, parents or family/carers.
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Before applying to join our wonderful team, we encourage applicants to view and read the job and person specification
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