Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

Applications are invited for a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join North Tyneside CAMHS.   The service caters for children and young people aged 0-18 and their families, who are affected by a variety of mental health difficulties.

We are looking for a motivated team player to join our multi-disciplinary  CAMHS service to support the delivery of psychologically informed assessments, diagnosis and evidence based interventions for young people with mental health difficulties and/or neurodiversity. The service has a number of Clinical Psychologists in post and the role will be under supervision of a Senior Clinical Psychologist and within a multi-disciplinary team.

The post will be based at Albion Road Resource Centre, North Shields but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The duties of the post will include contributing to specialist assessment to help those around the child make sense of their difficulties (all aspects of assessment, including mental health, learning, systemic factors, the role of trauma, the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors) .

Post holder will be required to work across locality CAMHS Teams as required. There will also be opportunities to develop individual interests with regards to all other service contributions across CAMHS and an expectation of working across teams to offer psychological expertise. Teaching and training is strongly encouraged in the service and a competencies framework is used to ensure continued professional progression.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a qualified specialist clinical/counselling psychology service to clients of  CAMHS, across all sectors of care; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.