Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | Grimsby, DN34 4GB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9816-513 |
Summary
MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES: To provide highly specialist psychological support, advice, and clinical supervision / consultation to the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team and relevant partner agencies regarding children and young people (CYP) who would benefit from a psychological perspective regarding their needs and how to best support them. To use their highly specialist psychological formulation skills and understanding of trauma-informed care, to support the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment Team to develop needs-led psychologically informed formulations and care plans. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the delivery of highly specialist psychological assessments, treatment, consultation and joint working, for children and young people referred (internally) from the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team. To exercise full responsibility for the management of internal referrals for highly specialist psychological assessment, treatment, consultation and joint working. To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service to CYP referred and accepted from the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment team. To develop and facilitate reflective supervision opportunities for their colleagues in the CAMHS Crisis / Home Treatment Team and the wider CAMH service to support staff and team wellbeing. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting in a mental health crisis and/or needing home treatment or specialist support. To hold a small clinical caseload, offering highly specialist psychological support and interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their parents/carers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation. To formulate psychological treatment plans that are specific to each child and family, based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models. To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options. To contribute to complex decision making around the childs emotional wellbeing and mental health needs with parent agencies and services . To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers and inpatient providers. To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting children and young people in a crisis and/or requiring high levels of support in relation to their mental health To work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Crisis Team Lead to support the embedding of trauma-informed care and the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) framework into routine practice in the Crisis / Home Treatment team. To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment (including skilled manipulation of test material), neuropsychological assessments, self-report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data. To support the work of Navigo CAMHS pathways, including management duties and provide support and consultation for staff and service users as part of a duty manager rota when required. To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation. Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated, and guide the team in relation to the use and interpretation of this data. To lead on and contribute to service development work. To deputise for the Consultant Clinical Psychologist when needed. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care. To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists and to continue to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.