Senior Practitioner Psychologist

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Job summary

Hampshire CAMHS (Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) is expanding & we are seeking to recruit a passionate 8A Practitioner Psychologist to join our well established CAMHs Team in Fareham. You would be joining a friendly, supportive and creative multi-disciplinary team, dedicated to providing a high-quality service.

The team is part of a wider CAMHs service that spans Early Help, Specialist CAMHs and a number of specialist teams such as Eating Disorders, Paediatric Psychiatric Liaison, i2i (Crisis) and a Digital Team. We also have an Innovation Lead and an active Participation offer. This post is positioned in one of the 7 Specialist CAMHs teams.

We follow the Thrive model and use a stepped care approach, formulating and mapping support to level of clinical need. We believe that children and their families benefit from choice and following a formulation driven approach, we endeavour to be able to offer this.

This post can be offered as a development post or part rotational with another speciality.

Main duties of the job

You will be a key team member in the Fareham CAMHs team providing evidence-based assessment, formulation and treatment interventions with young people and families who access our service. You will work alongside a group of experienced and motivated clinicians and contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings and discussions sharing your expertise whilst supporting and learning from others. You will also have opportunity to use your other competencies where possible such as research, service development competencies and develop specific therapeutic & leadership competencies.

Additionally you will be a key senior member of the clinical team and contribute to the clinical leadership in the team and the wider service.

This post can be offered as a development post to support you developing the specific competencies required to move into an 8B position or part rotational to develop skills in other areas you may be interested in.

About us

Hampshire CAMHS is the largest CAMHs service provider in the region.

Working in Hampshire:

• With a blend of beautiful rural New Forest settings and bustling city locations, Hampshire is known to be a very desirable place to live
• The ancient Cathedral City of Winchester and the seaside cities of Portsmouth and Southampton provide attractions and amenities to suit everyone's taste
• With easy access to Gatwick, Heathrow and excellent railway links, there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a service we are committed to and believe in supporting clinicians to progress and develop in their careers.

To support your development and reflective practice you will receive regular supervision from a Senior Clinical psychologist and have regular opportunities to link with other clinicians working across the Hampshire CAMHS service to support your development.

We have a supportive and progressive psychology and psychological therapies workforce across the Trust, and you would be able to both join and contribute to our existing supervision, training and consultation offer. This workforce is part of the wider Sussex NHS Trust and so we benefit from a strong Psychology & Psychological Therapies Leadership structure and opportunities to develop.

We are linked with a number of Universities to support both our training and research offer. These include Southampton, Reading, Exeter, Sussex & some of the London Universities. We are keen to enable you to develop your core competencies as a B8A including your supervision & leadershipcompetencies whilst also considering your future development and applied psychology interests.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

The service leadership team is supportive and encourages clinicians to prioritise their wellbeing in order to help maintain a good work-life balance.

For more detailed information see the attached job description and person specification and please ensure you meet the person specification criteria. Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact us.

We are able to offer this position as an B8A development post or part rotational post. We are particularly keen to look at supporting the development of leadership skills to enable you to consider further career development and opportunities in the service. If this is something you are interested to know more about then please do contact us for an informal discussion about what would interest you and support your career development. We recognise the importance of developing posts that meet the service need but also meet your own development and career aspirations. Please feel free to contact us:

Dr Jenny Murphy Professional Lead for Psychology & Psychological Professions: Jennifer.murphy@spft.uk

Dr Natalie Roberts - Lead for Psychology - Natalie.Roberts@spft.nhs.uk

Maria Murphy - Team Manager - Maria.murphy@spft.nhs.uk

(We are happy to arrange informal visits currently Covid dependant)

Job description
Job responsibilities

As a service we are committed to and believe in supporting clinicians to progress and develop in their careers.

To support your development and reflective practice you will receive regular supervision from a Senior Clinical psychologist and have regular opportunities to link with other clinicians working across the Hampshire CAMHS service to support your development.

We have a supportive and progressive psychology and psychological therapies workforce across the Trust, and you would be able to both join and contribute to our existing supervision, training and consultation offer. This workforce is part of the wider Sussex NHS Trust and so we benefit from a strong Psychology & Psychological Therapies Leadership structure and opportunities to develop.

We are linked with a number of Universities to support both our training and research offer. These include Southampton, Reading, Exeter, Sussex & some of the London Universities. We are keen to enable you to develop your core competencies as a B8A including your supervision & leadershipcompetencies whilst also considering your future development and applied psychology interests.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

The service leadership team is supportive and encourages clinicians to prioritise their wellbeing in order to help maintain a good work-life balance.

For more detailed information see the attached job description and person specification and please ensure you meet the person specification criteria. Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact us.

We are able to offer this position as an B8A development post or part rotational post. We are particularly keen to look at supporting the development of leadership skills to enable you to consider further career development and opportunities in the service. If this is something you are interested to know more about then please do contact us for an informal discussion about what would interest you and support your career development. We recognise the importance of developing posts that meet the service need but also meet your own development and career aspirations. Please feel free to contact us:

Dr Jenny Murphy Professional Lead for Psychology & Psychological Professions: Jennifer.murphy@spft.uk

Dr Natalie Roberts - Lead for Psychology - Natalie.Roberts@spft.nhs.uk

Maria Murphy - Team Manager - Maria.murphy@spft.nhs.uk

(We are happy to arrange informal visits currently Covid dependant)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, approved by the HPC
• Professional Registration with HCPC

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• 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 distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC

Communication/Analytical Skill

Essential

• Well developed skills in effective communication in a variety of methods of sensitve information.
• Skills in use of complex methods of assessment, formulation and intervention
• Can demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and the Trust.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, approved by the HPC
• Professional Registration with HCPC

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained postqualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• 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 distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC

Communication/Analytical Skill

Essential

• Well developed skills in effective communication in a variety of methods of sensitve information.
• Skills in use of complex methods of assessment, formulation and intervention
• Can demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and the Trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

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Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Osborn Centre

Osborn Road

Fareham

PO16 7ES

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