Applied Psychologist
| Posting date: | 22 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2026 |
| Location: | Grimsby, DN34 4GB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9816-614 |
Summary
This role will be predominantly based in the Young Minds Matter Children in Care Team, working closely alongside the Core and Crisis CAMHS teams. The postholder will exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to YMM Children in Care Team, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention. The post holder will be required to undertake specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after including children & young people living in residential children's homes and foster placements. The role involves working closely with the Local Authority and other agencies supporting looked after children e.g., LAC Health, Looked After Children's Education Team. There will be an emphasis on providing specialist therapeutic assessment, formulation and intervention for care leavers (people aged between 16 25 who are care experienced). The post holder will develop needs-led psychologically informed formulations to support care leavers and relevant professional networks. MAIN DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES: To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after by the local authority, including children and young people living in residential children's homes and foster placements. To provide specialist therapeutic intervention for care leavers and psychological consultation for their professional networks. 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 child's emotional wellbeing, mental health, and potential neurodiversity needs within their placement. To provide psychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or have experienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, relationship difficulties or placement disruption, and also to provide support to parents, carers and staff working with such clients. To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment (including skilled manipulation of test material), neuropsychological assessments, self-report measures, and risk assessments as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data. To understand and support the needs of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) and those working with UASC. 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. To communicate complex information to young people who are looked after, care leavers and carers/relatives in an empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a range of developed interpersonal skills in situations that can be highly emotional, and or antagonistic and require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. challenging complex and maladaptive family dynamics. To provide specialist teaching and training to foster carers, residential staff and those caring for children in care. To utilise theory, evidence based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. Contribute to service evaluation, clinical audits and service development initiatives as required. Please see job description for full outline of roles and responsibilities