Principle Clinical Psychologist CAMHS | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 pro rata, subject to AFC |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY3 9ES |
| Company: | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6292523/382-FICC114-24-A |
Summary
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.
• 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.
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.
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
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024
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