Clinical Psychologist

Job Title: Clinical Psychologist

Grade: Band 8a

Trust: Covntry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Location: Wood End Health Centre, 67aDeedmore Road, Coventry, CV11XA

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Mon- Fri 9.00am- 17.30pm (9.00am- 17.00pm on a Friday)

About the Trust:

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are rated 'Good’ in their most recent CQC report as well as being recognised as a Global Digital Exemplar. The Trust works across 101 locations including 5 hospitals, delivering community and mental health services to 1 million people. The Trust also has exciting plans to transform care for mental health, Musculo-skeletal conditions (MSK), learning disabilities and autism. This includes a brand-new state-of-the-art Rainbow Unit, providing facilities for inpatients with a learning disability and/ or autism

To be successful in applying for this role you will need:

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with children, young people, and their families with severe and complex mental health problems.
• Experience and knowledge of eating disorders
• Registered as an Applied Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling) with the HPC

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of:

• Relevant Qualifications
• Registration with the relevant Registration Body

Role responsibilities:

• To provide specialist psychological assessments for children and young people referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate, implement and recommend plans to multi-disciplinary colleagues, professionals in other agencies and parents/carers for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions with children, young people, and their families with complex and severe mental health problems by demonstrating the ability to synthesise different explanatory models and adjust/refine psychological formulations to guide specialist interventions.
• To evaluate and make decisions about appropriate and evidence-based treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children, young people, and their families, and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. This includes contributing the CAMHS self-harm and duty response rotas

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