Senior Clinical Psychologist - Urgent Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a qualified and experienced Clinical Psychologist ready to move into a Senior role. You will have a passion for working with children, young people and families with complex needs. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake complex assessments and deliver evidence-based and outcome monitored psychological therapies. You will have experience in supporting the development of others through supervision and training and be keen to further develop this. You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring to a multi-disciplinary team and consultative work. You will be committed to service user participation and collaborative working with children, young people, parents, carers and families. You will have a good understanding of safeguarding across the lifespan. You will be motivated to further develop your leadership skills to contribute to quality improvement and service development within your pathway and the wider service.

Information about the Urgent Care Pathway

The Urgent Care pathway consists of Crisis Teams, the Assertive Outreach Team and the Learning Disability Autism Keyworker Programme (LDAP). The pathway is county wide with locality hubs within it, which lends itself to the location being negotiable dependent on an individuals needs so long as service needs can be met.

In this pathway, the appointed Senior Clinical Psychologist will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, which includes Clinical Psychology, Consultant Psychiatry, Systemic Psychotherapy, Mental Health Nursing, Assistant Practitioners and Mental Health Practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds.

The Urgent Care pathway provides an acute crisis response as well as offering therapeutic work with specific emphasis on adolescents with complex and severe mental health problems. The team works to an AMBIT framework alongside a broad spectrum of therapeutic modalities that are being used.

As a Senior Clinical Psychologist in the team, your role will include complex psychological assessment and formulation, specialist advice/consultation, delivering short-term psychological interventions, as well as providing clinical supervision and teaching. You will also be supported to engage in service development and research as well as activities to support developing leadership skills.

Main contacts:

Lucy Eyre, Operations Manager for the Urgent Care Pathway

Dr Matthew Perkins, Principal Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead for the Urgent Care Pathway

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
• Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
• Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people.
• Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision

Experience

Essential

• Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions for CYP with a wide variety of mental health problems and/or neurodiversity and/or learning disability, reflecting all levels of clinical severity; including risk assessments of self-harming/dangerous/challenging behaviour.
• Experience of teaching and/or training
• Experience of delivering clinical supervision
• Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality

Desirable

• Experience of work in psychological interventions with children, young people and their families in a range of service settings or agencies
• Experience in undertaking leadership roles within clinical psychology services in the NHS, and in contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies and clinical policies in multi-disciplinary, multi-agency contexts

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of child development and the impact of adverse childhood experiences.
• Broad knowledge of psychological services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology is applied to the needs of children and young people Knowledge of psychometric assessment tools and their appropriate use Detailed understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity, Section 25 of the Childrens Act)
• Advanced psychological assessment and formulation skills including risk assessment.
• Ability to travel across the geographical service area as required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Evergreen

Victoria Park Road

Exeter

EX2 4NU

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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