Principal Clinical Psychologist | Isle of Wight NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 pro rata, per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1JW |
| Company: | Isle of Wight NHS |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6208926/470-23-8035-JK-3 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist who wishes to join our team. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients and staff receive quality and compassionate care.
We are excited to advertise a permanent Principal Clinical Psychologist (30 hours) post in our multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) service, following an expansion of our psychological therapies provision. This expansion has created input from psychology to the specialist eating disorder pathways, enabled psychological provision to be developed in our crises outreach pathway and enhanced provision within the longer-term psychological therapies’ anxiety, depression, trauma, and functional difficulties pathways.
We are a fully inclusive service and therefore some of our young people experiencing mental health difficulties also have Intellectual Disabilities or are Neurodiverse.
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist who can work closely with our Consultant Psychologist to ensure the quality of our psychological provision and develop psychological knowledge and skills across our workforce. The team are passionate about ensuring the child’s voice is central to the work they do and working in partnership with families and other partner agencies support services to achieve the outcomes desired by the child or young person. We strive for high quality and innovative practice. We would be delighted to hear from you if you value these things too.
Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.
This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.
We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.
On 1stJuly 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.
The post holder will be responsible, with support from the Consultant Psychologist, for ensuring the highest quality psychology provision across the CAMHS pathways with duties to include:
• The professional development and clinical supervision of Assistant Psychologists and lower banded qualified psychologists/psychological therapists.
• Teaching and training delivery to grow psychological knowledge and formulation skills across the MDT.
• Leading on service development and quality improvement projects within the service that would ensure good clinical outcomes and timely delivery of psychological assessment and interventions.
• Holding a clinical caseload and delivering assessment and interventions as a highly specialised Clinical Psychologist.
• Providing specialist consultation to the CAMHS team and to other partner agencies for complex cases.
• Working with the Consultant Psychologist to deliver on strategic aspects of psychological provision across the Trust.
Your continued professional development will be actively supported. We recognise how development of our professionals grows compassionate and evidence-based care for our young people and their families.
We have strong links with the clinical psychology doctoral training course at the University of Southampton and provide training placements. This gives the opportunity to act as clinical supervisor and provides avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.
To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
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