Job summary
We pleased to be recruiting a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist into our expanding Clinical Psychology Service for Our Children in Blackpool Local Authority Care. The Psychologist will be part of a small team of Psychologist colleagues and will assist in providing a high quality, effective, trauma-informed service.
Main duties of the job
The candidate is required to provide psychological advice and case formulation, consultation, and training to non-psychologist colleagues including social workers, foster carers, residential staff, family members and others involved in the care of the children and young people. Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience of working with children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma and with the systems surrounding those young people, following a consultation model. A good understanding of child development and complex trauma is essential along with accreditation in at least one model of a relevant therapy, experience of delivering supervision and training. A small amount of direct face to face work may also be required where signposting of young people is not possible/appropriate which gives a good opportunity to maintain and further develop direct specialist therapeutic skills.
Contact: Dr Cheryl Hutton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Blackpool Clinical Psychology Service for Our Children, Specialist Network, LSCFT: 07539 612843; cheryl.hutton@lscft.nhs.uk
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or the equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, specifically including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical Psychologist with children, young people and their families, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including community, in-patient and residential.
- Experience of working systemically with family and carer groups and establishing the most effective methods of working with children, young people and their carers.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified autonomous practitioner and also within the context of a multidisciplinary treatment plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervising
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or the equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, specifically including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Current registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical Psychologist with children, young people and their families, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including community, in-patient and residential.
- Experience of working systemically with family and carer groups and establishing the most effective methods of working with children, young people and their carers.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified autonomous practitioner and also within the context of a multidisciplinary treatment plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervising
Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to children and young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
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).
