Job summary
Are you qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist this year and wanting to join a caring team, who are experienced in supporting newly qualified psychologists in their development?
Are you currently working as a band 7 and looking to progress your career, or an experienced 8a wanting to take on new challenges, expand leadership skills or develop specialisms? If so, we want to hear from you.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) on the Isle of Wight. Psychology sits at the heart of the service and reaches into all aspects of service delivery, working alongside mental health nurses and practitioners, youth offending practitioners, family and creative therapists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and senior leads.
Your role sits within the Psychology and Psychological Therapies specialism within the CAMHS Team. We pride ourselves in delivering collaborative high quality and innovative psychological solutions with children, young people and their families.
The service has a comprehensive delivery model with care pathways for a wide range of mental health difficulties. These include depression and anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, functional and somatic symptoms, self-harming behaviours, and challenging behaviours in Intellectual Disabilities.
Main duties of the job
Duties of the post are varied and focus on the diversity of skill that Clinical Psychologists hold. Your post will be to deliver individual and group psychological interventions, training to parents and professionals and consultation to social care, education and charitable organisations. You will support the Consultant Psychologist in developing psychological thinking within the team and undertaking service development projects. You will lead new psychological initiatives within the service and actively grow the psychological skills of other team members. You will provide clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.
What we can offer you
The Service has strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course at Southampton University and provides placements for Trainee Psychologists. This link offers the opportunity to train with them as a Clinical Supervisor and opens avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.
We can offer flexible working hours and agile working, to enable you to have a good work/life balance. Relocation packages can be discussed and considered upon request. The NHS offers a wide range of staff benefits including pension, care lease and cycle-to-work schemes and many discounts at retail outlets. There is also an extensive range of CPD training and skills development programmes available.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health Care and Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through doctoral training, supplemented by post qualification short specialist courses and further specialist training/specialist clinical experience & clinical supervision.
- Formal post-qualification training in clinical supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., Personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Record of having published in peer- reviewed or academic journals and/or books. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
Experience
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained intense concentration alongside proactive engagement with patients, families, and other professionals.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive or highly contentious 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of broad occupational guidelines and legislation in relation to the specialist client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and knowledge acquisition as recommended by the BPS and required for registration with the HCPC.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Use of computer/keyboard, driving for community-based work, use of psychometric test equipment formal training in restraint practices & procedures
- Light physical effort for several short periods, sitting in constrained positions for extended periods.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain good clinical practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health Care and Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through doctoral training, supplemented by post qualification short specialist courses and further specialist training/specialist clinical experience & clinical supervision.
- Formal post-qualification training in clinical supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., Personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Record of having published in peer- reviewed or academic journals and/or books. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
Experience
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained intense concentration alongside proactive engagement with patients, families, and other professionals.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive or highly contentious 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of broad occupational guidelines and legislation in relation to the specialist client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and knowledge acquisition as recommended by the BPS and required for registration with the HCPC.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Use of computer/keyboard, driving for community-based work, use of psychometric test equipment formal training in restraint practices & procedures
- Light physical effort for several short periods, sitting in constrained positions for extended periods.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain good clinical practice.
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).
