Clinical Psychologist - Reparative Care Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Clinical

1. Provide specialist psychological assessments and formulations for complex casesusing a range of methods, including psychometric testing, structured interviews,and observations.

2. Develop, deliver, and evaluate psychological interventions for children, carers,and families informed by trauma-informed, attachment-based, andneurodevelopmental approaches.

3. Offer specialist consultation and formulation support to social workers,therapeutic practitioners, and carers.

4. Contribute to psychologically informed care planning and multi-agency decision making.

5. Undertake and advise on risk assessment and risk management.

6. Work flexibly across settings to meet the needs of children and families.

7. Maintain high standards of clinical record-keeping in accordance with HCPCstandards and HSC policy.

Supervision and Training

1. Provide clinical supervision and mentoring to Assistant Psychologists,Psychological Practitioners, and Therapeutic Support Workers.

2. Contribute to the delivery of training for staff and carers on trauma, attachment,and neurodiversity.

3. Participate in regular professional supervision and annual appraisal with the Lead

Clinical Psychologist.

4. Maintain and record continuing professional development (CPD) consistent withHCPC and service requirements.

Service Development and Governance

1. Contribute to service improvement initiatives and the development of traumainformed and neurodevelopmentally informed practice across Childrens Services.

2. Participate in clinical governance, audit, and research activities within theReparative Care Team.

3. Work within the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and relevantBPS professional practice guidelines.

4. Uphold the values of reflective practice, collaboration, and compassionate care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology recognised by the BPS
• To hold and maintain HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Desirable

• Experience of delivering training to professional audiences
• Knowledge of specialist models such as DDP, EMDR, NMT, or Theraplay
• Experience across a range of care settings
• Management or leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and families in care, adoptive, or fostering
• contexts
• Experience of assessment and intervention for children with neurodevelopmental
• conditions (ASD, ADHD, FASD)
• Experience of delivering psychological interventions for trauma and attachment
• difficulties
• Experience of providing supervision and consultation to multidisciplinary
• colleagues

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

States of Guernsey

Address

Princess Elizabeth Hospital

Le Vauquiedor

St. Martin

Guernsey

GY4 6UU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.gg/ (Opens in a new tab)