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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our developing Gloucestershire CAMHS Outreach service.

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision for children and young people aged under 18 experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Our service focuses on delivering admission avoidance, supporting safe discharge from a Tier 4 in-patient admission. We have a fantastic success rate of supporting children and young people in their recovery at home to ensure they receive the treatment they need.

CAMHS is part of a wider Children and Young People’s Directorate where we are developing integrated ways of working with physical health colleagues, including Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and School Nurses.  Our service is embedded in strong values which put children and families at the heart of what we do.

Main duties of the job

• You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, undertaking clinical responsibility for psychological interventions, adhering to risk management and care planning processes, liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.  There will be a specific focus upon providing highly specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs.

• You will be part of the Psychological Services Team in Gloucestershire, which includes CBT, Systemic, Creative and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists as well as Clinical Psychologists. We work in teams across the directorate and there are many opportunities for shared learning and development

• You will provide  highly specialist clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan.  This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
• Undertake an active clinical leadership role and other management related tasks regarding planning, delivering and evaluating the CAMHS Outreach service improvements/learning from continuous improvement cycles in conjunction with the Integrated Children and Young People’s Senior Leadership Team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.