Clinical Psychologist

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	09 Hydref 2025
Cyflog:	£55,690.00 i £62,682.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£55690.00 - £62682.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	26 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Exeter, EX4 8NA
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	B9832-2025-SP-1117

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Job Summary Responsible for assessment, formulation and intervention of own specialist caseload of children and young people with variety of complex problems including developmental and acute trauma, mental ill-health, behaviours that challenge and pose a risk to self and others, and complex neurodiversity, needing specialist secure care. This particularly includes working with their families and social care teams. Responsible for providing, developing and managing highly specialist psychological interventions to children and young people and for communicating psychological formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues. She/he will also ensure information is shared appropriately with other professionals by convening and chairing multi-disciplinary/agency network meetings. Responsible for planning, organising and auditing and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of a specialist psychology service within the secure service. The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide leadership from a psychological perspective on a specific area of expertise that balances their experience, interests, and needs of the service. Responsible for providing professional support, guidance and clinical supervision to other clinical psychology staff (newly qualified clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists, undergraduate placement students) at Atkinson SCH as required by their level of experience. Responsible for the planning, delivery and clinical supervision of a specialist clinical training placement for trainees on the postgraduate Doctoral Courses in Clinical Psychology from the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within Atkinson SCH, on psychological understanding, interventions and evaluations. Responsible for developing and delivering teaching on psychological work and care for trainee clinical psychologists and qualified members of clinical psychology and other professions in Livewell Southwest. Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery. Responsible for working within the Guidelines for Professional Practice of the Health & Care Professions Council and the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology or ACP-UK, and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest. Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the 8b Clinical psychologist plus a service manager or modern matron. Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the HCPC requirements for CPD. Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments within the profession of clinical psychology. Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives, policies and NICE guidelines in relation to the work.Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Post To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected. To engage young people with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse. To evaluate and make decisions about therapeutic approaches for young people in Atkinson SCH taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources. To formulate and implement therapeutic plans for the care of young people in Atkinson SCH . To be able to complete the most appropriate formal psychometric assessments with complex young people at Atkinson SCH. To be able to communicate complex psychological formulations and therapeutic plans to the children and young people and to professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood. To develop a psychological formulation of a clients problems that enables a healthy, holistic discussion of their therapeutic care plan. To prepare and provide reports for social services, when requested or appropriate to the psychology work. To have knowledge of and skill within several psychological models of understanding and managing behaviour, including, for example, Diadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Dialectic Behavioural Therapy and Systemic Therapies. Through consultation or case discussion with MDT colleagues, to be able to add both an understanding of psychosocial factors and offer advice as to an appropriate intervention for all children and young people admitted to the home. To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with children and young people who are often in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal. To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all clinical psychologists.Policy and Service Development To be responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist psychology services within Atkinson SCH. Through membership of the psychology specialty, to be responsible for contributing to the planning and development of specialist psychology services across the secure service. As a member of Atkinson SCH to be responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop the multidisciplinary response to clinical demands and expectations on it. To attend clinical multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings regularly.Human Resources To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to newly qualified Clinical Psychologists, CAPs, and trainee clinical psychologists within the service who are less experienced. To be responsible for providing clinical supervision to non-clinical psychology members of the service as appropriate. To be responsible for planning and supervising the work of undergraduate psychology students on year-long and short-term placements. To be responsible for the supervision of the work of Assistant Psychologist/s. To be responsible for planning and providing a clinical training placement to trainees on the postgraduate Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology of the University of Exeter. This clinical placement requires liaison with Human Resources to arrange appropriate DBS checks, honorary contracts and IT access as well as completion of Livewell Southwest and service inductions. It also requires a sensitive awareness to the impact on trainees of induction to being members of a large and complex organisation as the context for learning and practising their professional skills. To teach on the postgraduate Doctoral Courses in Clinical Psychology at the University of Plymouth and Exeter if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.Research and Development To conduct and supervise research and audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of specialist psychological services for children and young people needing secure provision. To contribute to/take a lead on evaluations, audits, research and service developments. To collaborate with University of Exeter and Plymouth in setting up and conducting Doctoral level long-term research projects on childhood trauma and providing teaching. To use SPSS and other packages in the analysis of data and to write up the information in a meaningful format that is accessible and understood by the target audience. To prepare and present information from audits, evaluations and research to professional audiences within and outside the organisation. To prepare papers for publication based on audit, evaluation, research and development work. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with team members at Atkinson SCH. Information Technology To be responsible for the maintenance and development of office systems and procedures within the clinical psychology service. To be able to use a range of software packages including Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint and SPSS. To be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirement of policies covering Atkinson SCH. To ensure that SystmOne computer data bases are kept up to date. PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.