Job Description:
We are looking for Practitioner Psychologists (Clinical or Counselling) to join us in our Mood, Emotions and Relationships pathway, providing mental health provision to children, young people and families across Devon. We have vacancies in our multi-disciplinary teams in North Devon (1 WTE) and Exeter/East Devon (0.6 WTE).
Its an exciting time of change, developing our pathways under iThrive. We are passionate and committed to providing high quality services to improve outcomes for children and young people.
We would love to hear from colleagues who can bring their psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention skills to collaborative MDT working within this pathway at an exciting time of development.
Main duties of the job
As a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling), you will be offering high-quality psychological assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families who access the support of these pathways. You will bring skills in formulation and consultation to your team alongside contributing to wider service development.
There will be CPD opportunities to support the development of your clinical knowledge and skills.
You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management. There is a strong and friendly network of Psychologists working across CFHD, enjoying shared CPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with the South West Doctoral training courses and regularly host trainee placements.
We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.
About us
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.
CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
- Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, frequent distressing and highly emotional clinical work
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
- High level knowledge of clinical presentations in children and young people
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
- Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
- Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence- based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
Qualifications
Essential
- A Professional Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
- Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Contact information:
Joint Lead for Psychological Professions
Emily Brooks
cfhd.workforce@nhs.net