Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/HCPCreg/other accredited therapist

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Applied Psychologist or Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or other accredited therapist to join our Core CAMHS Team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team and work ethic, sense of accountability, interest in research and service development, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a multidisciplinary team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with a range of complex mental health disorders within the Core team, then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist evidence-based assessment and therapy to children and adolescents with mental health difficulties.
• To be a member of the multi-disciplinary team within CAMHS and to proactively contribute to and participate in the provision, governance and ongoing development of the services provided.
• To offer advice and consultation on young people’s psychological care to both professional colleagues and staff from other agencies.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of both the trust’s and CAMHS’ policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
• To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• To work autonomously with professional guidelines and within the multidisciplinary team.
• To deliver and complete clinical work across a range of contexts within out-patients and in ways that are flexible and focused on the needs of the young person and their family/carers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and adolescents referred to CAMHS, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with young people, their families and others involved in the young person’s care (including professionals from other agencies).
• To individually formulate, plan, implement and evaluate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a young person’s mental health or other complex psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework adapting/utilising several psychological models and employing methods of proven efficacy, across a range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions in own area of speciality for individual children and young people, families/carers, and via groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models including developmental, cognitive, learning theory, biological, and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions 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 and their family and/or carers or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of own clients, and to manage and maintain caseload in line with service requirements.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving these children and their families.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and/or carers and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and joint work with other agencies.
• To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family/carers, and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.