Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 21 hours per week (weekend and evenings)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC114-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whitegate Drive Health Centre
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 pro rata, subject to AFC
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Clinical Psychologist CAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Are you looking to develop your skills in Clinical Psychology and to help develop our provision in Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services, this could be the ideal post you are looking for.
We are seeking to appoint a positive and enthusiastic Principle Clinical Psychologists with an ability to develop and build on their clinical interests and experience within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The breadth of our service offer provides an interesting clinical context, and we are keen to ensure appropriate clinical professional development underpinning excellence.
At Blackpool Teaching Hospitals you would have opportunities to develop your professional capability by joining a welcoming environment working in a multi-disciplinary team. There will be opportunities to utilise all aspects of your knowledge and skill base and to contribute to service leadership and development. Linking into the strong and growing presence of psychology in the Trust.
We have a forward-looking senior leadership team in the Trust who support a collaborative and compassionate model of leadership that we would wish to see applied in carrying out and developing the role.
Main duties of the job
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children young people and their families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, which require accurate physical administration and timing, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child’s or young person’s care.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological therapy and/or management of a child’s or young person’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Negotiating the implementation of such plans and sharing of complex, sensitive,and confidential information.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Each member of staff is required to ensure that:
a) The patient and customer are always put first;
b) That in all issues, the patient/customer requirements are met and all staff contribute fully to achieving the Trust’s corporate goals and objectives;
c) That all staff hold themselves personally responsible for the quality of their work and therefore seek to attain the highest standards achievable within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them in furtherance of the Trust’s Vision and in embedding the organisation’s Values.
- To be responsible for developing and implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individual children, young people patents, carers, families and groups, within the team, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To conduct neuropsychological assessments with children and young people, interpreting the results with reference to evidenced based models and providing verbal and written feedback to clients, their families and other professionals involved in the child’s or young person’s care.
- To provide regular clinical supervision/caseload management appropriate to the development of specialist skills in accordance with professional practice guidelines
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good honours degree (min 2:1) in Psychology
- Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC
- Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by BPS & HCPC
- Training for and/or experience of clinical supervision of practicing psychologists and/or doctoral degree trainees
- Post qualification training or experience in utilising psychological theories and therapies to complex mental health presentations.
- Other specialist further training or experience in psychological therapies with children and young people.
- Completion of Clinical Supervision training as provided by doctoral training courses to enable post holder to be able to supervise and assess clinical doctorate trainees. Specialist training in a therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability & preparedness to work to professional guidelines.
- Ability to interpret general clinical, professional & organisational policies & to use own independent initiative to establish how they should be applied within the area of specialty.
- Substantial post-qualification experience in the area of Child and Adolescent Mental Health mental health.
- Some experience of NHS management tasks (e.g. supervision of junior psychology staff; recruitment & selection)
- Direct clinical experience of work in a range of settings and by remote delivery of psychological work.
- Experience of negotiating with NHS managers, professional colleagues & other agencies.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing junior psychology staff
- Substantial experience or training in more than one therapeutic intervention specialty
- Training and/or substantial experience of psychological assessment, formulation & intervention with a range of different child and adolescent mental health disorders and presentations.
- Ability to design & implement policy for specialist psychological services & to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity
- Ability to professionally manage staff within the speciality
Skills
Essential criteria
- Standard keyboard skills, driving licence.
- Skills in the administration of psychometric tests where timing and accurate manipulation are essential to accuracy.
- Sound knowledge of software and general IT competence.
- Planning & organising: Capacity to plan and prioritise many competing complex ongoing tasks including patient contacts, research activity, supervision of psychology and non-psychology staff, service development activities and representation of service. Skills in co-ordinating, chairing and arranging multidisciplinary meetings and activity in relation to patient care and other activities
- Ability to contain & work with organisational stress
- Ability to hold the stress of colleagues & other relevant persons
- Ability to manage continual exposure to distressing and highly emotional clinical material
- Ability to cope with physical requirements of job
- Ability to sit in one position for lengthy periods during clinics
- Ability to operate within irregular working hours and to engage in remote working.
- Current full driving licence & use of a car
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of Electronic Patient Record Systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Eaton
- Job title
- Service Manager CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951997
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