Job summary
Job overview Clinical Psychologist - Band 7
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist to join our team on a permanent basis. This post offers a rare opportunity to work in the exciting and interesting field of inpatient adolescent psychiatry.
Simmons House is a 12 bedded in-patient unit for adolescents 13 - 17 years of age with severe and complex mental health needs. The unit operates a therapeutic milieu, to establish an ethos where both the individual and group are respected.
We pride ourselves in working collaboratively within a well-supported and well supervised multi-disciplinary team; we encourage our staff to use and develop their skills, getting involved in many aspects of care of the young people.
The role of clinical psychology in our team is fundamental to the care and wellbeing of the young people we work with.
We are committed to ongoing professional development and opportunities to develop skills with in-house training, our wider CAMHS service and other training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
Clinical work:doing assessments with young people using formal developmental psychometric and other assessment methods
Providing assessment and treatment using cognitive behavioural, systemic solution focused, psychodynamic interventions as appropriate
Work with MDT offering formulations, to provide and support rationales for care plans
Work with MDT to provide regular weekly psychology groups
Case manage several young people - organising and responsible for supporting them from admission to discharge - includes family work with the family therapist; liaising with parents and carers, health, education, social care, voluntary sector.
Teaching training and supervising:receive regular clinical supervision from senior clinical psychologist and as appropriate other senior colleagues
Participate in agreed programme of post-qualification training and professional development
Continue to develop skills in the area of professional post graduate teaching training and supervision
Contribute as appropriate to supervision of assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists
Management Policy and service development:contribute to development, evaluation, implementation and monitoring of Simmons house operational policies and service, in clinical assessment, treatment, research, service evaluation and audit.
Involved as appropriate in shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working with senior psychologist providing specialist assessments formal psychometric assessments and others as appropriate
- Providing psychological treatment, management and advice to young people their families and the team using a number of psychological interventions
- Working collaboratively as part of a multi disciplinary team offering psychological formulations
- Joining with others to run psychology based group(s)
- Joining with team members to run systemic and psychological supervision groups for the team
- Case managing several young people from admission through to discharge; doing family work with the family therapist; liaising with parents and carers, health, education, social care, voluntary sector from a range of areas
Who we are looking for:
- Clinical Psychology Professional Registration.
- Experience of working with young people and families in social care
- Experience of working with children and carers with mental health challenges.
- Be compassionate and demonstrate excellent patient care & leadership skills.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Keen to be involved in all areas above, participating in regular supervision, participating in post graduate training where appropriate, supervising assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working with senior psychologist providing specialist assessments formal psychometric assessments and others as appropriate
- Providing psychological treatment, management and advice to young people their families and the team using a number of psychological interventions
- Working collaboratively as part of a multi disciplinary team offering psychological formulations
- Joining with others to run psychology based group(s)
- Joining with team members to run systemic and psychological supervision groups for the team
- Case managing several young people from admission through to discharge; doing family work with the family therapist; liaising with parents and carers, health, education, social care, voluntary sector from a range of areas
Who we are looking for:
- Clinical Psychology Professional Registration.
- Experience of working with young people and families in social care
- Experience of working with children and carers with mental health challenges.
- Be compassionate and demonstrate excellent patient care & leadership skills.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Keen to be involved in all areas above, participating in regular supervision, participating in post graduate training where appropriate, supervising assistant psychologist and trainee psychologists.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP or other recognised professional registering body.
- Undergraduate degree
- Experience of working with adults, babies or young children in a mental health setting
Desirable
- Experience of perinatal mental health
- Experience of working with children and parents
Skills and abilities
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for parents to be and parents and their babies experiencing emotional difficulties in the perinatal period.
- Skills in adult mental health assessment, intervention and management of Parent-Infant relationships in the perinatal period. oSkills in assessment, intervention and management of children under five years of age, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal, risk and mental health factors for adults and children under five years of age and their families. oAbility to build therapeutic relationships with adults with emotional distress and mental health difficulties, and their children
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service. oKnowledge and skills in a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health.
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, babies and children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment.
Desirable
- Ability to build therapeutic relationships with adults with emotional distress and mental health difficulties, and their children
- Experience of working in Children's Centres
- Experience of facilitating groups
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, babies and children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.Experience in adult mental health
- Experience working with babies or children
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of Group work
- Experience in audit and research
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP or other recognised professional registering body.
- Undergraduate degree
- Experience of working with adults, babies or young children in a mental health setting
Desirable
- Experience of perinatal mental health
- Experience of working with children and parents
Skills and abilities
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for parents to be and parents and their babies experiencing emotional difficulties in the perinatal period.
- Skills in adult mental health assessment, intervention and management of Parent-Infant relationships in the perinatal period. oSkills in assessment, intervention and management of children under five years of age, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal, risk and mental health factors for adults and children under five years of age and their families. oAbility to build therapeutic relationships with adults with emotional distress and mental health difficulties, and their children
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service. oKnowledge and skills in a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health.
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, babies and children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.
- Experience of multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment.
Desirable
- Ability to build therapeutic relationships with adults with emotional distress and mental health difficulties, and their children
- Experience of working in Children's Centres
- Experience of facilitating groups
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, babies and children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.Experience in adult mental health
- Experience working with babies or children
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of Group work
- Experience in audit and research
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).
Additional information
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).
