Principal Clinical Psychologist

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We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist with significant knowledge and expertise in working with young people with complex needs, including neurodevelopmental difficulties, to join our team at Red Kite View.

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing expert assessment, formulation and treatment to young people and families, supporting psychologically informed interventions of colleagues via the provision of supervision, consultation and training, and to embed psychological formulation and trauma-informed approaches across the service. You will provide clinical leadership and direction in service and policy development in line with new national specifications, ensuring that these are psychologically and trauma informed and that care is formulation led.

You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary inpatient team, community CYPMHS services, third sector and social care services across West Yorkshire, bringing a psychological perspective and understanding of young people’s distress. This will include formulation driven care planning, risk assessments and contributions within team meetings. You will provide supervision, reflective practice and post-incident support to psychological professionals and non-psychologists, including supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.

You will participate in audit, service evaluation and research and have a key role in the psychological aspects of service and practice development.

The Children and Young People’s Inpatient Service at Red Kite View takes a trauma-informed and systemic approach to understanding the presentations and needs of young people and their families.

Our work is underpinned by evidence based psychological models, including Adaptive Mentalisation Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), where psychological formulation informs a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to treatment. This is a time of significant and exciting change for CYP services and the successful applicant will contribute to service developments in line with new national guidance.

We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. A number of our team are accessing further accredited training in therapy modalities (including Systemic therapies, PBS, RO-DBT, MBT and CBT) and leadership programmes. We have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology Doctoral training course at the University of Leeds. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our…