Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 470-23-8096-KP-3
- Employer
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community CAMHS
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist this year? Are you already qualified and looking for your first Clinical Psychologist post? Are you wanting to begin your qualified journey in a caring team, experienced in supporting newly qualified psychologists in their development? Do you want to be mentored through growing both your clinical and supervisory skills? Do you want opportunities to explore leadership skills as part of your continued professional development? If so, we want to hear from you.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist who wishes to join our multidisciplinary Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Psychology sits at the heart of the service and reaches into all aspects of service delivery, working alongside mental health nurses, mental health practitioners from social care and occupational therapy backgrounds, youth offending practitioners, family and creative therapists, psychiatrists, and senior leads.
Your role is part of the Psychology and Psychological Therapies specialism within the wider CAMHS Team. This specialism consists of Psychologists, Psychotherapists, CBT therapists. We pride ourselves in delivering high quality and innovative psychological solutions with children, young people and their families who experience difficulties with mental health.
Main duties of the job
Duties of the post are varied and focus on the diversity of skill that Clinical Psychologists hold. Your post will be to deliver psychological interventions and deliver group interventions and trainings. You will support the Consultant Psychologist in developing psychological thinking within the team and undertaking service development projects.
You will lead new psychological initiatives within the service and actively grow the psychological skills of other team members. You will provide clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.
The Service has strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course at Southampton University and provides placements for Trainee Psychologists. This link offers the opportunity for the post holder to train via the University as a Clinical Supervisor and opens avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.
The Service recognises the importance of receiving regular supervision and of Continued Professional Development and actively supports your training and study.
The Island offers the opportunity for multiple sporting, music and arts activities combined with rural areas of outstanding natural beauty and easy commuting distance to the mainland with good road and rail links to London and Southern England and regional airports- so life and work on the Island is “connected”.
Working for our organisation
Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.
This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.
We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.
On 1st July 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The service offers direct therapeutic work in the form of individual therapy, group work and parent workshops as well as consultation and training to professionals. The service has a comprehensive delivery model with care pathways for a wide range of mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety, trauma, functional and somatic symptoms, self-harming behaviours, challenging behaviours and eating disorders. We make our service accessible to all. Therefore, some of our young people may also have co-occurring Intellectual Disabilities, physical health conditions or Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The variety of opportunities for clinical specialism within the role, alongside the commitment of the team to supportive colleague relationships makes our CAMHS team an ideal place to start your career.
To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description & person specification document attached. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health Care and Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner (Clinical) Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through doctoral training, supplemented by post qualification short specialist courses and further specialist training/specialist clinical experience & clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., Personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain good clinical practice.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist
- Experience of exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan.
Communication
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Ability to use the highest level of communication and interpersonal skills to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information in hostile or highly emotive atmospheres where adherence to detail and accuracy must be meticulous and there may be conflicting strands of information to synthesise
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Burrow
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01983 523602
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