Job summary
We are delighted to be recruiting a 0.8wteSenior Clinical
Psychologist (Band 8a) to join the Managing Eating Pathway within Children and
Family Health Devon based in South Devon.
This post can be offered at Band 7 under a preceptorship,
subject to meeting criteria to progress to Band 8a.
We are a friendly and dedicated pathway, working hard to
improve our services for young people and their families. We have a number of
exciting developments as we are currently working on new groups to deliver to
parents and young people, new resources such as bespoke podcasts, and
developing our offer in line with the variety of needs children and young
people present with.We would love to have a new enthusiastic colleague
to join us in pushing innovation forwards.
Its an exciting time of change as we develop integrated,
needs-led pathways underiThrive. We are passionate about our work
and are committed to providing high quality services across Devon to improve
outcomes for children and young people.
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Psychologist in the eating disorder pathway,
you will be offering high-quality complex assessments and psychological input
to children, young people and families. You will bring advanced formulation and
consultation skills alongside wider service development contributions. While
eating disorders are a specialist area, you will be working with various
comorbidities such as anxiety, OCD, BDD and trauma. We offer cognitive
assessments as well as opportunities to develop systemic practice. This makes
it a great opportunity to gain specialist knowledge whilst maintaining variety.
There will be CPD opportunities to support you. For example,
colleagues have accessed training in ARFID, AFT, TF-CBT and other models.
We are keen to support CBT for eating disorders as an offer
within the pathway and would welcome applications from those already trained,
or who wish to undertake further training such as CBT-E and CBT-T.
We encourage interest from candidates with diverse
backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.
You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line
management. You will be supported with a job plan and opportunities to develop
supervision, leadership, research and service development skills. There is a
strong and friendly network of Clinical Psychologists working across CFHD,
enjoying shared CPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with
local Doctoral courses for teaching and Trainee placements.
About us
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.
CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specificationand ensure you evidence essential criteria in your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specificationand ensure you evidence essential criteria in your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
- Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
Desirable
- Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people
- Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
- Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
- Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
- Experience in providing teaching and training
- Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
- Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
- Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required
Desirable
- Experience in using neuropsychological assessments of cognitive functioning and/or learning disabilities in the context of diagnostic assessments of learning disabilities
- Experience of the assessment of capacity to consent and providing consultation to capacity assessments across a range of issues.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
- High level knowledge of Clinical presentations in children and young people
- Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
- Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
Desirable
- Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people
- Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
- Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
- Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
- Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
- Experience in providing teaching and training
- Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
- Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
- Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required
Desirable
- Experience in using neuropsychological assessments of cognitive functioning and/or learning disabilities in the context of diagnostic assessments of learning disabilities
- Experience of the assessment of capacity to consent and providing consultation to capacity assessments across a range of issues.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
- High level knowledge of Clinical presentations in children and young people
- Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
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).
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