Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - Specialist CAMHS

Job summary

The CAMHS Young Peoples Team (YPT) are looking for an enthusiastic Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join our established multi-disciplinary team.

This post is fixed term or secondment for 8 months and is a full time position (37.5 hours).We provide a service from Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

YPT work with young people aged up to 18 years who are living in care, adopted, homeless or involved with youth justice. We provide support to young people and their carers where there is a diagnosis of a moderate to severe mental illness.

The successful applicant should have a knowledge of the care systems within the UK, including an understanding of the complex needs faced by young people who have experienced trauma in their childhoods.

The successful applicant will have a passion for working with young people and show compassion and trauma informed decision making and delivery of care and have a good knowledge of the diversity and cultural needs of the communities living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

You will be able to demonstrate confidence in learning to navigate new systems and utilise screening measures within our service and will be confident in data interpretation.

Please note that this role requires access to a vehicle during working hours, a valid full UK driving license and business insurance.

Contact Details; Kayleigh Lord kayleigh.lord@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the regular supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist.

Working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Westcotes House

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 0QU

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Westcotes House

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 0QU

Employer's website

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

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