Principal Clinical Psychologist - Clinical Lead ATTACH Team
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £55,640.00 i £59,129.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55640.00 - £59129.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Shoreham-by-sea, BN43 6GA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0052-05689 |
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Following the successful TUPE transfer of our specialist psychological services into West Sussex County Council last year, we are embarking on an exciting journey to realign and integrate a range of specialist social care and psychological interventions under one roof in our Psychological Hub. This transformation offers a unique opportunity to innovate and deliver creative, impactful services while building on established, collaborative relationships between psychological services and the social care workforce. We have a wide range and depth of expertise and experience within the services and a strong ethos of working together to meet the needs of these vulnerable groups of children and families. The Psychological Hub is led by two Consultant Clinical Psychologists, leading in either The Community Psychological Service or The Children We Care For Therapeutic Service. The Community Psychological Service - provides a range of specialist psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions with children, young people and their families or carers where concerns have been raised about the child engaging in harmful sexual behaviour. In addition to direct work, the service provides consultation, training and reflective practice groups to the wider local authority safeguarding and edge of care teams as well as consultation to multi- agency networks. The Children We Care for Therapeutic Service (the ATTACH service) delivers psychological support into our Children We Care for, Care Leavers, Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking young people and Special Guardianship teams and includes support to our Residential and Fostering services. As a therapeutic team, ATTACH offers consultation and a reflective space for social workers to consider the impact of developmental trauma on children and young peoples emotional well-being. We focus on co-constructing a shared understanding (formulation) with colleagues and carers, to help understand complex presentations and hidden emotional needs. This in turn helps us to develop collaborative approaches and interventions that support children to recover from the impact of early relational trauma and to form meaningful attachments. We provide consultation and support to carers in the provision of therapeutic parenting approaches, and to social workers in undertaking relationship-based social work, as well as addressing the impact of this work on both groups. Alongside this, we offer direct assessment and therapeutic work for children and young people in foster care and special guardianship families and for children living within West Sussex residential care homes. As the Principal Clinical Psychologists for our services, you will: Provide leadership in delivering evidence-informed, integrative, and systemic interventions. Work closely within a multi-disciplinary/multiagency environment to design and implement innovative service models. Champion a compassionate, trauma-aware, relational approach at all levels of the system. Help shape the future of our Psychological Services Hub, contributing to its growth and impact. experience of working with children who are placed in the care of the local authority, and/or those placed with special guardians. This will include a detailed understanding of the needs of children who present with issues arising from developmental trauma and the support needs of those who care for them in foster, special guardianship, and residential placements. Alongside this a detailed understanding of the intersections of developmental trauma with neurodiversity and other psychological/emotional needs will be essential.