Clinical Psychologist

• This post allows the post holder an exciting opportunity to provide a specialist clinical psychology service to children and adolescents and their families/carers with a wide spectrum of mental health, developmental and psychological difficulties.
• The post will be primarily based in the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team but may be required to work in the Core CAMHS team, as demand requires. The Neurodevelopmental CAMHS team works with young people with ASD, ADHD and/or a Learning Disability in addition to having mental health needs.

Essential

• Postgraduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct therapies and lifespan development psychology.
• Registration with HCPC as a Clinical Psychologist.

Desirable

• Chartered clinical psychologist
• Undertaken post-doctoral training in one or more relevant additional specialised area of psychological practice.
• Training in psychometrics relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders and learning disability such as the ADOS, ADI and Vineland

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in-patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different contexts including CAMHS or Children's Services.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working with children and young people who have a learning disability, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families

Essential

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Excellent skills of assessment, formulation, evaluation and treatment, using complex methods frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Evaluation and audit skills.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex technical and/or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, careers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance, including regular supervision, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology and models of psychopathology and learning relevant to clients in CAMHS.
• Good knowledge of psychological evidence based interventions applicable to referred clients.

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.

Essential

• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
• Interpersonally calm, able to diffuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills enabling formation of networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective working with clients.
• An ability to interact with clients of all ages and developmental levels, with complex problems, and who may be or become highly distressed and potentially aggressive.
• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential

Desirable

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and mental health.