Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Development Role

Job summary

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children, young people and families? There is an exciting opportunity to join the well-established Herefordshire CAMHS. You will support offering assessment and intervention to: children/young people up to the age of 18; their families; as well as teams around a person. The work will be challenging, exciting and rewarding.

We offer a range of pathways including CBT-based and family-based interventions. We also offer other specialist interventions including EMDR, CAT and psychotherapy. There are plenty of opportunities to be supported to learn and grow within our team. We have strong links with our specialist CAMHS teams, as well as external agencies.

The role is clinic-based. The role would not ordinarily be across multiple sites, however this may be required on occasions to meet need.

This is a full-time role. We will consider reduced hours for the right candidate. Please contact for further discussion.

Main duties of the job

You will be offering assessments and care planning/intervention for moderate to severe mental health presentations experienced by those under 18 years. This can include providing consultation to teams around a person. The MDT will support you and your clinical decision making.

There will be opportunities to offer clinical supervision and deliver teaching/training where appropriate. We have close links with local training providers and offer placements to various health care professionals.

We regularly conduct audits and support research projects to ensure effective service delivery. There will be opportunities to support these activities.

You are expected to engage in your own supervision and be able to communicate with children, young people, families and partner agencies both verbally and in writing to promote mental health recovery.

We are a countywide service with some cross county working. We offer clinical appointments on site but sometimes source alternate locations.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience required specific to the role and clinical area
• Experience of multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of conducting clinically relevant research
• Significant experience of supervised practice including working with families and care organisations
• Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to a wide range of patients presenting with a full range of clinical severity
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for a patients psychological care and treatment

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology
• Post graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Evidence of regular continuing professional development through further professional training and experience, as required by the
• HCPC and the BPS
• Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS
• Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.