Clinical Lead - Principal Psychologist/Senior Psychological Therapist

Job summary

We looking for an Applied Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling or Forensic) orPsychological Therapist to work as Clinical Lead in our Getting Help Pathways in North Lincs CAMHS. The Pathways include our Getting Help and Psychological Therapies teams. You would be part of the leadership team in NL CAMHS and expected to work closely with the Service Manager and operational leads.

You will be responsible for overall clinical leadership, including development of clinical pathways, clinical governance, and provision of high-quality clinical supervision. You will develop and provide services that meet the agreed service priorities. This will include development and implementation of highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention strategies including clinical casework, training/supervision of other team members.

You will need to be able to demonstrate your skill/ experience in developing and supporting multidisciplinary approaches and pathways. Experience in supervision is essential as you will be expected to provide supervision to other psychological professionals in the pathways. Consultation, leadership and service development are also essential skills for this post. As the Clinical Lead you will have a liaison role with provider partners and will be a key player in carrying out our ambition to work together as a whole system with equal partnership, promoting integrated working and placing the young person at the centre of all that we do.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership to the Getting Help Pathways in North Lincs CAMHS and deliver a psychological service the young people accessing the pathways. The main duties will include:

• Indirect working with clinical teams to develop psychological formulations
• Complex assessments and interventions
• Teaching and training of non psychological professionals
• Supervision of psychological professionals
• Working with senior managers to develop psychologically informed models of care.

Please see attached documentation for a full summary of duties, responsibilities and person specification

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 3700 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

http://workwith.rdash.nhs.uk/