North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Clinical Psychologist
About the role
Job summary
The North Stoke CAMHS Team are looking to recruit to a part-time Band 7 Clinical Psychologist on a fixed term basis until 6 March 2028.
The successful candidate will:
Be accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to children, young people and families experiencing complex mental health concerns and distress or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.
Be compassionate in meeting the needs of children, young people, their carers and families.
Provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Undertake formal research as an integral part of the job.
Be pro-active in continual service improvement within own area.
Promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
Main duties of the job
Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.
Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job responsibilities
Analyses complex client information, derived 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 the client, family members and others involved in the clients care.
Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
Responsible for maintaining appropriate boundaries with service users.
The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need.