Principal Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Do you have a passion for supporting the CAMHS/psychological workforce to deliver best-practice care to children and young people with mental health difficulties?

Do you thrive in multi-disciplinary settings where psychological skills and expertise are highly valued?

Working in a very friendly and dynamic CAMHS Service, we have an exciting part-time opportunity for an experienced Clinical Psychologist based mainly in our Core CAMHS Chesterfield bases with some linking to our Buxton Core CAMHS Team also.

This exciting post includes direct clinical work with young people with more complex needs in Core CAMHS.  The post will also include indirect lead roles with supporting and co-ordinating clinical supervision processes, and co-ordinating and delivery of the Psychology Consultation Offer across the Service.

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.

We welcome applications from candidates who might be looking for less that the advertised 30 hours or possibly a job-share option.

We have well established links with the training courses and regularly have trainees on placement.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Clinical Psychologist in Core CAMHS you will:

• Provide specialist psychological/therapy-based assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people with the most complex need in Core CAMHS and take a lead role in the provision of services to this client group
• Provide a significant leadership role along with the Team Leads for Core CAMHS.
• Provide specialist knowledge, expert advice and support the delivery of evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
• Manage and help the development of other Clinical Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.
• Offer training and clinical supervision to CAMHS Professionals
• Carry out complex neuropsychological and neurodevelopmental assessments as appropriate, particularly where there is co-morbidity and/or complexity to the presentation
• Be a member of a multi-disciplinary service and contribute to team and service developments.

Across the service you will:

• Lead and co-ordinate and deliver the Psychology Consultation Offer to CAMHS professionals.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Clinical Supervision processes

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.

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