Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Clinical Psychologist

Band 7

We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join our innovative multi-disciplinary Emotional & Behavioural Team (EBT2) in Bedford CAMHS.

EB2 offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions to young people aged 5-18 and their families. We have close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments and completing individual and group interventions.

We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment. The team is part of Bedfordshire CAMHS which is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of 2 emotional and behavioural teams, a LAC team, a CAMHs schools team, a parent-infant psychotherapy team, a paediatric team, a GP team, an adolescent mental health team, a crisis team and an eating disorders service and Neurodevelopment Team. We also have embedded workers in Early Help, CDC and social care.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to children, young people and their families in North of Bedfordshire and will be based in our CAMHS hub in Bedford offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, including group-work. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team.  The post holder will require a high degree of professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

The successful post-holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached JD for a more detailed job description and responsibilities

For further details and discussions, please contact: Karen Dathorne (Operational Lead and Nurse Prescriber)  or Willow Matthews, Clinical team Lead on: 01234 893300