Senior Clinical Psychologist/MHP

This is a senior clinician post that sits within a well-established and innovative CAMH CIC service.  Trafford CAMHS-CIC is a long-established service in partnership with Trafford Children’s Services.

The service provides a specialist, targeted, city wide service to children and young people (0 – 18 years) who are cared for by Trafford Local Authority. There is extensive liaison, consultation and work with foster carers and professionals from Children’s Services and all associated networks.

This is an experienced trauma informed team and consequently there are plenty of opportunities for CPD and learning as well as joint working opportunities. The post holder will offer assessment and intervention, specialist consultation, and staff training as part of this team.

The post holder will also provide clinical support into the Edge of Care pathway that sits within the Trafford CAMHS CIC Specification. 

The successful candidate will provide a range of high-quality interventions appropriate to the child or young person’s needs which will include mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, evidence-based interventions.

The post holder will have a range of skills and knowledge base to deliver clinical aspects of the role in a multi-disciplinary team setting and will be competent to do this work as an autonomous practitioner within professional practice guidelines. This post entails teaching and supervisory duties to other professionals and junior staff and/or students and regular consultation to the wider children’s service.

The post holder is also expected to promote and develop partnerships and interface with other professionals and agencies that work within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health THRIVE Framework.

• Recognised qualification: Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS, Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH, Social Work (CQSW/DipSW), Occupational Therapy
• You must be registered/accredited with a professional body. e.g. NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
• Experience in working with Looked After Children and multiagency working
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range
• Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals
• Proven experience of working effectively with children and young people .with mental health difficulties, including autonomous management of a complex caseload which frequently deals with distressing and emotional circumstances
• Experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
• Experience of developing and providing evidenced based assessments, formulations, and care plans and effective use of ROMS
• Experience of hard to reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding
• Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals, including managing difficult conversations and differences of opinion
• Experience of mentoring and supervision of others, including supporting the mental health and wellbeing of junior staff and trainees
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures
• Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation
• Advanced knowledge and skills in delivery of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
• The ability to assess, formulate and manage care appropriately, ensuring discharge is timely
• The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family
• Ability to integrate psychological theories and outcome data with clinical practice and service provision
• Ability to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate therapeutic interventions with children across the age range and their parents/carers
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and overcome barriers to acceptance with children, parents and professionals
• To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies i.e., social workers, education, GP’s, maintaining positive working relationships. The ability to work with people from a range of different backgrounds, cultures and or different ages
• To be able to provide feedback and constructive guidance to junior members of the team and trainees to facilitate their personal and professional development
• The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance
• To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner
• Ability to manage and organise own time and diary, and work flexibly and creatively in a clinical context and pressurised situations
• The ability to follow policy and make proposals for change
• The ability to work independently with the support of clinical and management supervision
• The ability to maintain clinical records both written and electronic
• The ability to cope with stressful situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the case of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Experience of delivering training

• Qualifications in Psychological Therapies to Diploma or Masters level e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT
• Certificate in supervision skills
• Additional post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT / Family Therapy
• Experience of providing a variety of interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families/carers
• Community mental health experience across a variety of settings
• Experience of audit and research
• Delivery of group work and workshops
• Advanced IT skills
• Experience of supervising junior staff

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.