Senior Clinical Psychologist, Paediatric Tics/Tourette's (Annex 21)

Job overview

To run an established tics and Tourette's clinic to the St Helens area for children and their parents, supporting the management of tics and Tourette's.  Support will be provided by the Senior Clinical Psychologist who has led the clinic since 2022.

An opportunity has arisen for a secondment for an experienced or aspiring Senior Paediatric Clinical Psychologist to join the Tics and Tourette’s Service in St Helen’s.

You will be provided with training in behavioural therapy for tics, supervision from an experienced Paediatric Clinical Psychologist in the area and the opportunity to engage in peer supervision with other psychologists working in the tics service. You will join an aspiring expanding paediatric service, gain clinical experience in a specialised area enabling potential future opportunities.

This role would be ideal for Clinical Psychologists interested in specialising in paediatrics as in the future we hope there will be potential opportunities more broadly within the service.

This post may be offered under annex 21 terms and conditions.

Main duties of the job

KEY DUTIES

• To be responsible for the systematic provision of highly specialist psychological clinic for children and young people with complex tic presentations, and their families/carers.
• To provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with practitioner experience and expertise. Such services to include the development and implementation of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention strategies including clinical casework and the provision of consultancy work generally for the assurance of quality in the use of psychological methods by other team members.
• The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers.
• The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:

• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information, please see the attached job description.

Clinical Duties

To undertake specialised assessment, formulation, intervention, communication and reporting of sensitive clinical information related to paediatric tics and Tourette's, running a clinic one day per week for St Helens.

Ensure appropriate policies, procedures and rigorous governance processes are followed accordingly.

Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is received.