Job summary
Band 7 to 8a Applied Psychologist/Senior Applied Psychologist
This post is available as either a Band 8a, or as a Band 7 with preceptorship to 8a.
Hours: Full time. Flexible working is available.
Base: As this service covers a wide geographical region, post holders are officially based at home, but you would have use of a Psychology office in Selly Oak, Birmingham and an office in Dudley. This role will require travel in the West and East Midlands regions, and you may need to provide support to clients in the South Central region. All travel would be in work time and paid from home. We are well resourced for remote working, and most of our team meetings are held remotely.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Applied Psychologist to join the National Deaf CAMHS team for Central England, which covers the West Midlands, East Midlands and South Central regions.
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from deaf psychologists. The Trust has a guaranteed interview scheme and we strongly encourage deaf applicants to declare so that they can be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria. We encourage applications from psychologists with a good level of British Sign Language (BSL).
Be part of the national team to improve and provide mental health services for children, young people and parents who are severely to profoundly deaf across England.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining our team in providing an excellent assessment and therapeutic service to young people and families, as well as joining at a time when we are strengthening the teams' psychologically-informed culture.
This post is to provide a specialist Applied Psychology service to deaf children, young people and families accessing the NDCAMHS. The post-holder will be required to work flexibly across pathways of care and in a variety of community settings across the East Midlands, West Midlands and South Central regions. The role will involve working closely with deaf and hearing clinicians/practitioners as part of a multi-disciplinary team and with BSL/English Interpreters. The post-holder will contribute to service users' care directly via specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention, and indirectly by providing advice and consultation to colleagues both within service, and also outside of the service. The post holder will be required to work with a range of other professionals and non-professionals providing care and support to deaf children, young people and their families (e.g. teachers, teachers of the deaf, generic CAMHS, social workers). The role will involve engaging with psychologist colleagues across the Central regions of Deaf CAMHS and across the wider National Service. The post-holder will utilise their research skills for audit, service evaluation and research in order to inform service and practice development.
About us
National Deaf CAMHS
NDCAMHS is an innovative community and inpatient mental health service delivering a pathway of care for 0-18 year olds across England. The national service is delivered by four NHS Trusts, and our teams link closely together. You will be working closely with our key partners where together we have an ambition to deliver an outstanding model of mental health care for the deaf children, young people and parents of England.
NDCAMHS is a unique and truly individual service! We are continuously learning and evolving, as we work together to meet the mental health needs of children, young people and parents who are deaf.
We are a fully integrated multi-disciplinary team comprising Psychologists; Psychiatrists; Systemic Family Therapists; Nurses; Occupational Therapists and Family Support Workers. A key aspect of the role is working closely with clinicians/practitioners as part of a bi-lingual, bi-cultural multi-disciplinary team with deaf and hearing practitioners and BSL/English Interpreters. We welcome deaf applicants, and applicants who already have a high level of British Sign Language, however specialist training and development will be provided to develop BSL, and knowledge and skills for working with deaf children and young people.
Our clients use a wide range of communication modalities including British Sign Language, Sign Supported English, various spoken languages and minimal language.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You would hold a varied caseload, which will include carrying out specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions, working flexibly across pathways of care in a variety of community settings, and to work closely with clinicians/practitioners in multi-disciplinary teams.
We work both directly with families, as well as offering joint care with local CAMHS services, multi-agency working and consultation.
Excellent problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills and a positive attitude towards working with deaf children, and their families, with complex mental health needs are essential.
You would take a key role in our neurodevelopmental assessment pathway, with support from the Lead Psychologist for the Neurodevelopmental Pathway and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. You would care co-ordinate for children on the neuro-developmental pathway in the Midlands, as well as take a key role in the assessment processes including cognitive assessment, and a role within the multidisciplinary team in assessment of Autism Spectrum Condition and ADHD. You would take a role in developing post-diagnostic support for deaf children, which may include group work and resources.
You will have access to highly specialised national group supervision and continuing professional development with a neuropsychologist specialist in assessment of deaf children.
We are keen to support the training of psychologists who want to bring new skills to the team and develop new areas of service provision. You may already have a therapeutic specialism that you can offer across our region. You would have access to training opportunities to support you to develop areas of expertise. We are particularly keen to develop our trauma and attachment care-pathways and strengthen our Systemic Family Therapy offer, so applicants with qualifications in trauma/attachment models and Systemic Family Therapy would be able to help us to develop these areas. Further training and specialist supervision in these areas would be supported.
You would also input into the governance and development of specialist services for deaf children and young people, including audit, research and service development.
We regularly have Trainee Clinical Psychologists working with us from the Birmingham and Coventry & Warwick and Trent courses, and Honorary
Assistant Psychology placements from the Birmingham Masters in Clinical Psychology, and Year in Industry placements from Aston University. We would be keen to develop more links with courses across our geographical region. As well as the links with the BCHF Trust Psychologists, we also have a Psychology Best Practice Group across NDCAMHS, and a wider network of Applied Psychologists working with Deaf People Special Interest Group (APDSIG). We are also developing therapy specific Special Interest Groups across NDCAMHS and wider networks working with deaf children and adults.
We have access to a lease car scheme and paid for overnight-accommodation if needing to be further from home. Clinical and office spaces can be booked across the region as needed. We have the ability to offer an integrated approach for clinical work using video conferencing as well as face-to-face work to manage our travel where appropriate. We also hold most of our meetings by video conferencing, but aim for an integrated model balancing the need for team connection with reducing travel. Post holders would be provided with facilities to enable remote working.
For further supporting information to apply for this role please see documents attached under Additional documents.
IMPORTANT: This position is only open to people who are HCPC Registered/Practitioner Psychologists. Final Year Clinical /Applied Doctoral Psychology Trainees who will achieve HCPC status in the near future are welcome to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You would hold a varied caseload, which will include carrying out specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions, working flexibly across pathways of care in a variety of community settings, and to work closely with clinicians/practitioners in multi-disciplinary teams.
We work both directly with families, as well as offering joint care with local CAMHS services, multi-agency working and consultation.
Excellent problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills and a positive attitude towards working with deaf children, and their families, with complex mental health needs are essential.
You would take a key role in our neurodevelopmental assessment pathway, with support from the Lead Psychologist for the Neurodevelopmental Pathway and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. You would care co-ordinate for children on the neuro-developmental pathway in the Midlands, as well as take a key role in the assessment processes including cognitive assessment, and a role within the multidisciplinary team in assessment of Autism Spectrum Condition and ADHD. You would take a role in developing post-diagnostic support for deaf children, which may include group work and resources.
You will have access to highly specialised national group supervision and continuing professional development with a neuropsychologist specialist in assessment of deaf children.
We are keen to support the training of psychologists who want to bring new skills to the team and develop new areas of service provision. You may already have a therapeutic specialism that you can offer across our region. You would have access to training opportunities to support you to develop areas of expertise. We are particularly keen to develop our trauma and attachment care-pathways and strengthen our Systemic Family Therapy offer, so applicants with qualifications in trauma/attachment models and Systemic Family Therapy would be able to help us to develop these areas. Further training and specialist supervision in these areas would be supported.
You would also input into the governance and development of specialist services for deaf children and young people, including audit, research and service development.
We regularly have Trainee Clinical Psychologists working with us from the Birmingham and Coventry & Warwick and Trent courses, and Honorary
Assistant Psychology placements from the Birmingham Masters in Clinical Psychology, and Year in Industry placements from Aston University. We would be keen to develop more links with courses across our geographical region. As well as the links with the BCHF Trust Psychologists, we also have a Psychology Best Practice Group across NDCAMHS, and a wider network of Applied Psychologists working with Deaf People Special Interest Group (APDSIG). We are also developing therapy specific Special Interest Groups across NDCAMHS and wider networks working with deaf children and adults.
We have access to a lease car scheme and paid for overnight-accommodation if needing to be further from home. Clinical and office spaces can be booked across the region as needed. We have the ability to offer an integrated approach for clinical work using video conferencing as well as face-to-face work to manage our travel where appropriate. We also hold most of our meetings by video conferencing, but aim for an integrated model balancing the need for team connection with reducing travel. Post holders would be provided with facilities to enable remote working.
For further supporting information to apply for this role please see documents attached under Additional documents.
IMPORTANT: This position is only open to people who are HCPC Registered/Practitioner Psychologists. Final Year Clinical /Applied Doctoral Psychology Trainees who will achieve HCPC status in the near future are welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Applied Psychology
- HCPC registration (or for final year trainees due to gain registration)
Desirable
- Skills in British Sign Language
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Applied Psychology
- HCPC registration (or for final year trainees due to gain registration)
Desirable
- Skills in British Sign Language
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).
