Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS

Job overview

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our busy CAMHS team to cover maternity leave for 12 months. The post will sit within our well established core CAMHS pathways.

• To provide a qualified specialist CAMHS clinical psychology service to clients of the service, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy including Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapies and psycho-dynamically informed psychotherapies.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the CAMHS Service
• To take the lead in the development of new areas of service delivery.
• To provide supervision to qualified and pre-qualified staff.
• To offer expert consultation to partner agencies and other professionals within the multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.
• To formulate and implements plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both therapeutic and theoretical models and highly complex factors
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide specialist psychologically informed advice, guidance, supervision and consultation to other professionals.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals and team members on risk assessment and risk management
• To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers’, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
• To offer specialist therapy in a range of therapeutic modalities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

please see detailed job description and person specification. please note this role is for maternity cover for 12 months.