Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

1.To provide and be responsible for implementing a range of psychological assessments and interventions (e.g. CBT) for children, young people, and their families within both the Community Paediatric Service and CCSNT. adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

2. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan and enhancing staff confidence and competence in their own roles.

3. To work together with relevant professionals to provide a co-ordinated service that meets the identified needs of the child and family. This includes post diagnostic support, and pre and post bereavement counselling to families and children with a variety of medical conditions (ranging from those with complex healthcare needs, those needing acute short term interventions and those requiring palliative and end of life care). The role will also involve supporting the CCSNT with clinics.

4. To evaluate, analyse and make decisions/recommendations about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.

5. To undertake risk formulations and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk formulation and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies, procedures and NICE guidelines.

6. To lead on service evaluations relating to efficacy of interventions.

7. To participate in audits.

8. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings, representing psychology within both the Community Paediatric Service and the CCSNT and provide a psychological lens for case discussions.

9. Providing supervision and support to colleagues within the CCSNT including palliative care supervision, and leading team debriefs following child bereavement.

10. To participate in the development of the evolving service, including group work delivering teaching and training and creating resources for families.

11. To be aware of health inequalities, ensuring that any additional vulnerability or inequality suffered by children and young people (e.g., learning disability, victim of child sexual exploitation, children looked after) is properly considered when identifying appropriate interventions with other professionals.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology and be registered with the HCPC

Desirable

• Further model specific training
• Supervision qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in children and young people's mental health services
• Experience of specialist assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings
• Experience of supervising other staff members, both on an individual and group basis.

Desirable

• Experience of working with neurodiversity
• Experience of delivering teaching and training

Skills

Essential

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, psychological formulation, interventions (e.g. CBT) and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information, including contentious and highly distressing information, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in self-management, caseload management and time-management.
• Skilled in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• High level knowledge about attachment theory and the impact of trauma
• Knowledge and experience of the Coventry Grid/Coventry Grid Interview
• High level knowledge of the impact of complex long term health conditions on young people and families

Safeguarding

Essential

• Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues.
• Has a good understanding of the Safeguarding agenda

Working withing Professional Boundaries

Essential

• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self-care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Address

Oak Tree Centre Huntingdon / Peacock Centre Cambridge

Huntingdon

PE29 7HN

Employer's website

https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)