Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Triage and Emotional & Behavioural Teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Band 5 Assistant Psychologist to join our energetic staff group.
We are a team of creative, vibrant, and thoughtful clinicians who are passionate about providing care to young people, families, and our community. TH CAMHS provides flexible, evidence-based service providing episodes of care, assessments, and treatments to a wide variety of clinical presentations. Staff wellbeing and development are important focuses in the team.
The service includes professionals from various disciplines including psychiatry, nursing, social workers, psychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapy, and family therapy, who come together to provide high quality holistic care for young people and their families. We have rich multi-disciplinary discussions and you will regularly be a part of these meetings.
This is a great opportunity to do direct clinical work within an assistant psychology role!
Supervision will be provided by qualified clinical psychologists. There will also be opportunities for continuing professional development, including regular training and a monthly group facilitated by other Assistant Psychologists within the service line.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
Complete triage assessments for new referrals with a wide range of presenting issues, appropriate to the training and skills level of the assistant psychologist, and under appropriate supervision.
Make recommendations for onward referrals and treatment needed of young people in conjunction with the triage team and/or the clinical supervisor.
Communicate the outcome and recommendations of triage assessments to young people, families, schools, and external agencies. Write letters, referrals and reports as appropriate with outcomes and recommendations.
Support young people and families through the guided-self-help 'Luminova', an online CBT-based program for children. This includes maintaining the database of young people receiving the intervention and collecting outcome measures.
Be involved in other activities supporting the team functioning as required. For example, maintaining the database of third sector agencies, which we refer to.
The post holder will be supported to gain experience on the delivery of evidence based interventions for children, young people and families under the supervision of qualified clinical psychologists. There may also be scope for the post holder to contribute towards our service groups' interventions offer.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
The service offers hybrid working and therefore, there will be flexibility to do some remote working. This is subject to change in line with service needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details of role requirements.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Lisa Walker, Triage Clinical Team Lead on lisajayne.walker@nhs.net.
Please note that in the case of very high interest for this job, we reserve the right to close the application process before the closing date.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details of role requirements.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Lisa Walker, Triage Clinical Team Lead on lisajayne.walker@nhs.net.
Please note that in the case of very high interest for this job, we reserve the right to close the application process before the closing date.
Person Specification
Training Qualification
Essential
- Degree (1 or 2.1) in Psychology or Masters level Graduate membership of the BPS
Other
Essential
- Able to work to professional guidelines.
- Must be capable of accountability for own work, working flexibly with a range of different professionals and of working towards defined results.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Well developed skills and ability to communicate effectively orally, and in writing complex, highly technical and or sensitive information for dissemination both within and outside the local authority and NHS
- Analytical & Judgmental skills Understanding of the interaction between mental health/emotional wellbeing and areas of social care need like trauma, abuse, poverty, family/professional relationships or housing.
- Planning and organisational skills: Able to plan, organise and prioritise own workload.
- Physical skills: PC skills
- Information resources: Able to record and report on clinical information as required
- Competent in use of Word and Excel
- Research & Guidance: Good research and statistical skills, including ability to access and search evidence based resources
- Cultural awareness: Understanding of the impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health and emotional wellbeing.
- Flexibility: Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need
- Able to work independently and to seek support as appropriate
- Able to use supervision to improve work
Desirable
- Information resources: Competent use of other IT packages e.g. PowerPoint, SPSS, Access.
- Cultural competence: Understanding issues involved in working with a multicultural population.
- Multiagency networking Able to grasp the complexities of the range of statutory and voluntary agencies involved in providing services for children and families
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a health or social care setting
- Experience of individual or group interventions for parents or young people in a clinical/care/ education setting
- Conducting audit and/or evaluation projects
- Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
Desirable
- Contribution to research programmes
Personal
Essential
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
- Physical effort: Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial proportion of working time.
- Mental effort: Able to concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time, during client contact, teaching sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
- Values: Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals. Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
Person Specification
Training Qualification
Essential
- Degree (1 or 2.1) in Psychology or Masters level Graduate membership of the BPS
Other
Essential
- Able to work to professional guidelines.
- Must be capable of accountability for own work, working flexibly with a range of different professionals and of working towards defined results.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Communication & Relationship skills: Well developed skills and ability to communicate effectively orally, and in writing complex, highly technical and or sensitive information for dissemination both within and outside the local authority and NHS
- Analytical & Judgmental skills Understanding of the interaction between mental health/emotional wellbeing and areas of social care need like trauma, abuse, poverty, family/professional relationships or housing.
- Planning and organisational skills: Able to plan, organise and prioritise own workload.
- Physical skills: PC skills
- Information resources: Able to record and report on clinical information as required
- Competent in use of Word and Excel
- Research & Guidance: Good research and statistical skills, including ability to access and search evidence based resources
- Cultural awareness: Understanding of the impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health and emotional wellbeing.
- Flexibility: Able to be flexible and adapt approach according to need
- Able to work independently and to seek support as appropriate
- Able to use supervision to improve work
Desirable
- Information resources: Competent use of other IT packages e.g. PowerPoint, SPSS, Access.
- Cultural competence: Understanding issues involved in working with a multicultural population.
- Multiagency networking Able to grasp the complexities of the range of statutory and voluntary agencies involved in providing services for children and families
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a health or social care setting
- Experience of individual or group interventions for parents or young people in a clinical/care/ education setting
- Conducting audit and/or evaluation projects
- Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
Desirable
- Contribution to research programmes
Personal
Essential
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
- Physical effort: Able to sit in constrained positions for a substantial proportion of working time.
- Mental effort: Able to concentrate intensely for a substantial proportion of working time, during client contact, teaching sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
- Emotional effort: Able to manage effectively frequent exposure to highly distressing/highly emotional circumstances and exposure to traumatic circumstances.
- Values: Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals. Willing to negotiate and can handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
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).
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).
