Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (pro rata)
- Job ref
- 363-SSLB7229098
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Beds CAMHS
- Town
- Bedford
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Clinical Psychologist post in a specialist CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team - Band 8a
We are really pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Neuro-developmental team in Bedford CAMHS services. We are looking for a Clinical psychologist who is able to take on a senior role within a well-established specialist team. We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment.
Main duties of the job
The CAMHS Neurodevelopmental team (NDT) offers assessments and creative interventions to children and young people who have ASD and other neurodevelopmental problems and/or have learning disabilities, helping to ensure that children are being offered the best possible support.
The successful post-holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. As a band 8a senior clinician, the post-holder will hold full professional autonomy and self-management, and will be required to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The team is part of Bedfordshire CAMHS which is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of 2 emotional and behavioural teams, a LAC team, a CAMHs schools team, a parent-infant psychotherapy team, a GP team, an adolescent mental health team, a crisis team and an eating disorders service. We also have embedded workers in Early Help, CDC and social care. We offer regular opportunities for staff to undertake individualised CPD, and we provide opportunities for staff wishing to act up into more senior roles on occasion.
Bedford CAMHS has a thriving service-user participation group which meets regularly to consider service development initiatives. The successful applicant would have the opportunity to join in a number of quality improvement (QI) projects which can lead to innovations within the Service.
Our clinics are readily accessible from North London (Dunstable) or Milton Keynes and Northampton (Bedford). ELFT offers attractive recruitment packages and we are committed to offering our staff the opportunity to develop their skills.
For a more details please see the attached JD
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (and/or eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical Psychologist), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology,
- Training in delivering supervision
- Two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society and registered with HCPC.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community and primary care
- Experience of working with autistic young people or adults within a neuro-affirming service framework.
- Experience of completing neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments and then offering intervention.
- Experience of helping to plan care with other members of an MDT, including setting tasks for assistant and trainee psychologists.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families, and the ability to demonstrate specialist training/experience including having practiced as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months and having received regular supervision from an appropriately qualified Psychologist; or met alternative criteria agreed by the Consultant Lead
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the assessment and diagnosis of learning disability using appropriate psychometric assessment tools.
- Training in the National Autism Trainer Programme or related neuro-affirming paradigms.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of modern relevant theories and frameworks of neurodiversity (monotropism, SPELL for example) and the ability to apply this knowledge to individual and systemic case formulation.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge and experience of working with children with learning disabilities with mental health issues.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice, and evidence base for specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
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
- Lucy Pedrick
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01234 893300
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