Clinical Psychologist - CORE CAMHS

Job overview

Do you have a passion for young people’s mental health? Do you thrive in multi-disciplinary settings where psychological skills are highly valued?

Working in a very friendly and dynamic CAMHS Service, we have an exciting full-time opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist based mainly in our Buxton Core (Community) CAMHS Team. We are happy to consider flexible options.

We want you to support our psychological therapies pathways, with a clear therapy role most likely in our DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) Team; and you will have a pivotal role transforming/improving our Routine Outcome Measures delivery as ROMs Lead.  There are opportunities for indirect working (e.g. consultation, supporting our clinical supervision structure).

Our Service has 10 teams with excellent track records working closely together, with lots of opportunities for gaining different experiences to develop your portfolio.  Our internal training programme for staff is positively-rated and clinical supervision practice is highly valued.  We value the diversity of our clinicians, and the different skill sets that they bring.  We offer flexible working and have a special leave policy.

Whilst this is an 8a post we are very happy to receive applications from soon to be or newly qualified Clinical Psychologists in a preceptorship role (with a structured development plan to progress with regular support).  We have well established links with the training courses and regularly have trainees on placement.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Psychologist in Core CAMHS you will:

• Provide specialist psychological/therapy-based assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties
• Provide a pivotal role in supporting our Service to transform with embedding and improving our Routine Outcome Measures delivery as ROMs Lead.
• Be client-centred and a goal-focused member of our multi-disciplinary service, championing ROMs and contributing to service developments, as appropriate.
• Empower and support young people on their journey to recovery
• Offer clinical advice and support, consultations, supervision and training for professionals in our CAMHS Service.
• Be an active member of an experienced multi-disciplinary service and contribute to team and service developments.
• Contribute to case discussions and a ‘careteam’ approach to formulation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.