Specialist Applied Psychologist Job Ilford area,England UK,Healthcare

Position: Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist

Job Overview

The Post-Holder will be the main Psychologist for the Young People's Home Treatment Team at Brookside Tier 4 CAMHS. The Psychology team is well-integrated into the MDT, contributing to the care of young people and families through direct and indirect interventions. The Post-holder will play a key role in supervision of more junior members of the Psychology Team and will support the Lead Psychologist in the running of a high-quality Psychological service.

The post-holder will have opportunities to lead on quality improvement and other service delivery initiatives.

Job Overview

Main duties of the job

Participating in the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care in CAMHS Tier 4 adolescent services ensuring the psychology service provided is needs led, compliant with national guidance and is experienced positively by service users.
Offering support and consultation to the multidisciplinary ward team in their work and in the provision of psychologically informed formulation and interventions.
Exercising clinical responsibility for undertaking psychological assessment, psychological treatment and discharge planning of clients in consultation with the multi-disciplinary team.
To assist in the supervision, teaching and coordinating of assistant and trainee psychologists.
Taking a senior role in the clinical development of the Tier 4 CAMHS services.
Providing high quality, trauma-informed clinical care that is focused on recovery and reintegration.

Key Responsibilities Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical Skills

Work with an allocated caseload of young people and their families/carers. The Post-holder's caseload will primarily come from the YPHTT as the “YPHTT Psychologist”; however, we are flexible and responsive to service and client needs as a Psychology team. We value our ability to “follow” our young people when they transition between provisions within the service.
To provide specialist comprehensive psychological assessments of young people based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data 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 patients, family members and others working with the client.
To provide specialist comprehensive risk assessments of referred patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment, prevention and management.
To provide a specialist psychology service in the areas of assessment, individual, group and family/system treatment.
To provide specialist psychology input to adolescents and their families in at least two different evidence-based therapeutic modalities.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning developmental processes and historical events that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To undertake joint therapeutic work with members of the multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
To provide specialist teaching in psychological theories and methods to the multidisciplinary team of the Brookside CAMHS Tier 4 services.
To participate in Brookside community and staff meetings.
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