Clinical Psychologist- CAMHS

Overview

Are you an established Principle Clinical Psychologist interested in working within an Core Camhs team? We are looking to recruit to a 12 month fixed term post covering maternity leave.

As a Principle Clinical Psychologist, you will work directly with young people and their families providing a range of assessments and therapeutic work, adopting the Thrive framework. You will work as part of a multi disciplinary team offering intervention to young people and their families, providing consultation and training for the clinical team, ensuring psychological thinking and formulation are at the core of service delivery.

We offer a service to families built on compassion, social connection, and open participation working in partnership with education, social care and third sector services.

The Clinical Psychologist is a part time post of 30 hours per week Monday to Friday. The service is open from 9-5 Monday to Friday yet hours can be flexibly met; this can be discussed further at interview stage. In Dorset, we are transforming our child and adolescent mental health service into a Family Mental Health model that embraces and adopts the Thrive framework.

You will have previous experience delivering interventions with families who are experiencing high levels of distress. Attend clinical and managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Service Manager and provide high quality and timely clinical record keeping. You will hold excellent assessment and formulation skills.

We invest in supporting and developing clinicians. Supervision from a Clinical Lead Psychologist will be provided and training will be arranged where needed.

At Dorset Health Care we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined‑up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward‑looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000‑strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.