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Job overview

We wish to recruit a Senior Clinical Psychologist or Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist for our Specialist Children and Young People's Mental Health Services in North Cumbria (main base in Carlisle or Workington).   The post is suitable for candidates with experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist wishing to further develop their skills working with Children and young people with persistent, moderate to severe mental health disorders, and their families.  We are particularly interested in candidates with an interest in children's mental health and eating disorders.  We work closely with our Crisis, ADHD, and Children's Learning Disability colleagues.

Main duties of the job

You will be a Senior Psychologist or Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist  in an established multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for providing high quality evidence based psychological assessments, formulations and therapy to children, young people (up to the age of 18), and their families.  You will be responsible for leading on psychological provision through consultations, MDTs, and supervision. You will provide advice, consultation and training to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment. You will support service development through audit and research. 

In this role you will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. We believe in the value of supervision you will be responsible for providing supervision to Psychologists, Trainee and Assistant Psychologist,  or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy trainees and CYPs Clinicians.  You will also receive your own regular supervision and CPD opportunities. 

The post is open to those Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) and they would become a member of the Trust wide Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy forum.

Working for our organisation

At Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to developing services of the highest quality that consequently enable and empower our service users to reach their potential and live fulfilling lives.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.