Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time substantive Psychologist to join our supportive and dedicated team at Chalkhill.

You would be supported to work closely with the multidisciplinary team, including Occupational Therapy, Family Therapy, Social Worker as well as Psychiatry and Nursing team and would be able to take on an active role in the design and implementation of innovations in care.

The Trust is supportive of ongoing professional development, and you would be supported to access regular CPD in addition to benefitting from a wide range of learning through the Trust training department. This post would suit a motivated psychologist who is dedicated to delivering high-quality care to young people and their families. We are very passionate about growing and developing our clinical psychologists in Tier 4 CAMHS and we therefore welcome applications from Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

We welcome enquiries about the post and would be happy to support applicants to have an informal visit to the service. Please contact the Lead Psychologist on 01444 472670 to find out more.

Main duties of the job

As a practitioner psychologist at Chalkhill, you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate psychological interventions delivered in the service as part of the psychological therapies team.

Opportunities would be available to develop your supervision and leadership skills in order to support your ongoing career development. Regular clinical supervision would be provided, and you would be supported to continue developing and expanding upon your clinical and professional skills.

The position is full-time (37.5 hours per week). We know that a positive work-life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working options.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will take an active part in the day to day life on the unit including attending ward rounds and team meetings. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing evidence based individual and group work and will work closely with your multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver a high quality safe and effective service. You will contribute to admission and discharge processes and be able to effectively assess risk and develop risk formulation and management plans. You will utilize and promote the use of outcome measures and feedback tools within the service and support quality improvement projects. You will be expected to value and promote collaborative working and our team ethos of young person and family centred care.