Job summary
We are recruiting for a part-timeSenior Clinical Psychologistto join our Community CAMHS teams in Melksham and BANES.
You'll be providing a highly specialist service that is culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice to help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder to improve the mental health and well-being of users of the learning disability service.
The role will involve psychological assessment and intervention for children with complex presentations within the teams clinical spaces and community visits. You'll also be supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by the LD teams and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
If you have Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, are HCPC-registered and want to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients with learning disabilities, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- Provide psychological assessment and intervention for children with moderate to severe and/or complex presentations
- Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
- Supervise and support psychological assessment, formulation and therapy provided by LD clinicians and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- Provide ad hoc advice and guidance to colleagues within social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs.
- The post involves independent travel between Trust sites and community visits, and there may be potential risk of exposure to aggressive or unpredictable behaviour from clients and carers or family members in distress. The post- holder should be guided by the local team's lone worker policy and Trust risk policy and their supervisor when undertaking visits.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties. Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to hold HCPC registration in order to be considered for this role.
About us
Melksham and BANES CAMHS are large teams with a wide range of professions working alongside each other with the main goal to provide excellent clinician care to patients and families. Each team has a well embedded and long standing leadership team and BSW CAMHS is highly regarded service, with a good reputation particularly for supporting individual professional development and offering further training opportunities. Staff are encouraged to attend individual and joint supervision spaces, including reflective practice space and complex case support.
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job description
Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Experience of supervising others.
Desirable
- Experience of running / co- running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' clients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Experience of supervising others.
Desirable
- Experience of running / co- running groups
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' clients.
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
