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Clinical Psychologist

Contact Information: [email protected]
Location: Kirklington, Newark
Salary: Band 8 equivalent - £45,000-51,000 dependent on experience
Date Posted: 26/07/2021
Closing Date: 01-10-21
Job Type: permanent
Setting: Wings School Notts

Post title: Clinical Psychologist

Setting: Wings School Notts

Salary: Band 8 equivalent - £45,000-51,000 dependent on experience

Contract: Full-time 40 hours per week Monday - Friday with some flexibility in hours in line with clinical need. Part time hours will be considered where requested.

Wings School Notts is seeking to appoint a Clinical Psychologist.

Kedleston Group are seeking to appoint a passionate and skilled Psychologist, at our Wings School Notts in Kirklington.  The post holder should have significant experience working with young people who are Looked After and ideally with additional experience of working within a residential specialist school and/or in-patient CAMHS. This role would suit someone who is looking to develop their skills in clinical leadership.  Kedleston Group are highly supportive of additional training and CPD to support the development of the clinical team.

At Wings Notts our ultimate goal is to promote the social, emotional and psychological wellbeing of our children and young people. We strive to be a trauma informed environment. We support our children to achieve in education, partake in social activities and build positive relationships. We enable them to feel empowered to take care of themselves physically and emotionally as they make their transition into adulthood.

Main duties and responsibilities:

To undertake psychological formulation and assessment that draws on a wide range of sources, is based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, is informed by the evidence base, and can be contextualised across the range of care settings. To undertake neuropsychological assessments where appropriate to support assessment and formulation.  This information will be used to inform individualised treatment, staff training and/or consultation around the care and management of children and young people with mental health difficulties, complex trauma and/or neuropsychological conditions (ASD/ADHD).

To have skills and knowledge in the Attachment, Regulation and Competence model or other evidence based systemic models for children with mental health difficulties, complex trauma and/or neuropsychological conditions. To disseminate, train and implement these therapeutic models into the care and education systems at the residential school.

To have training, or be willing to undertake further training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). A key responsibility of the role will be to leading and supporting key education staff to deliver DBT-informed groups across the school and leading DBT staff consultation meetings.

To work with education staff, carers and families to support and develop their psychological knowledge and skills to better understand and support the clinical needs of our children and young people.

Ability to maintain warm and empathic relationships and demonstrate high levels of resilience during times of team conflict and during work with children and young people with highly emotive and distressing difficulties, e.g. trauma and abuse histories.

To be responsible for implementing a range of indirect and direct psychological interventions for our young people, their families, care staff, and education staff. These will be informed by their psychological formulation and will be informed by the evidence base for mental health difficulties, complex trauma and/or neuropsychological conditions. 

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models, and the complex factors including developmental history, attachment history family history, environmental influences, care history and trauma impact.

To offer a psychological opinion on referrals regarding anticipated clinical needs.

To participate in weekly Child in Mind meetings with the clinical team, care and education staff to offer psychological opinion and review support needs for children and young people.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for our children and young people, and to provide guidance to other colleagues about the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. 

To communicate in a highly skilled and effective manner, orally and in writing highly sensitive and complex information concerning our children’s background information, formulation, assessments and treatment plans.

To work collaboratively with a wide range of professionals. To uphold professional boundaries and professionalism at all times. To build and develop effective relationships to ensure that the needs of the children and young people are being met.

Essential criteria

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
  • Professionally registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
  • Eligibility for BPS Chartered Status
  • Training in the supervision of trainee psychologists and other professionals within the MDT
  • Previous experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with children, young people and their caregivers
  • Experience of working with children or young people that show verbal and physical aggression.
  • Experience working with children or young people who have difficulties with self-harm behaviours.
  • Experience of delivering training to staff groups, identifying clinical need and devising training packages
  • Experience of working with children with a range of clinical severity, across different settings and show a high level of resilience and professionalism when faced with emotive and distressing information
  • Experience of using psychological formulation to inform psychological assessments and interventions with children and young people
  • Experience of assessing and intervening appropriately with child protection and safeguarding issues
  • Experience of holding full clinical responsibility for the psychological needs and treatment planning of clients and/or having full case holder responsibility
  • Experience of psychometric and neuropsychological assessments with children and young people.
  • Experience of providing supervision to others
  • Comprehensive and specialised knowledge of the needs of children and young people with complex trauma, mental health difficulties and/or neuropsychological conditions.
  • Specialist knowledge of assessment, formulation and interventions for children and young people with mental health difficulties, complex trauma and/or neuropsychological conditions (ASD, ADHD).
  • Knowledge of Governmental and Strategic policies and national clinical guidelines in relation to children and young people.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
  • Effective and creative skills to engage children and young people with complex needs.
  • To communicate in a highly skilled and effective manner, orally and in writing, highly sensitive and complex clinical information to young people, their carers, families and other professional colleagues.
  • Skills in adapting written and oral information for different levels of understanding and cognitive ability.
  • Skills in developing psychological formulations and full psychological and neuropsychological assessments of children and young people, utilising psychometric measures, risk assessment and management plans and making recommendations for treatment based on theory assessment and the evidence base.
  • Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professionals and external agencies.
  • Skills in gathering and analysing data to support audit, research and service evaluation.
  • Skills to work independently and manage own caseload, and to work effectively as part of an MDT

In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits, ongoing opportunities for continued professional development and training, a friendly, passionate and committed team of colleagues and access to employee perks, including cycle to work scheme, discounts on shopping and cinema tickets, birthday treats, employee of the month award and enhanced pension contributions for qualified teaching staff.

We would love to hear from you if you feel that you meet the requirements for the role and share our passion and commitment to developing confident and capable young people by meeting their educational, health and social care needs in structured, nurturing school and home provisions.

Kedleston Group Limited is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its children and young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

We look forward to receiving your application.

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