Psychologist​/Psychotherapist​/Family Therapist​/Psychological therapies

Psychologist / Psychotherapist / Family Therapist / Psychological Therapist SET CAMHS NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the SET CAMHS team within NELFT NHS Foundation Trust as a highly skilled Psychological Professional. We are looking for an experienced and compassionate clinician to provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families presenting with a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties. The successful post holder will work as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care across the SET CAMHS pathway.

This role offers the opportunity to work with complex and specialist presentations whilst also contributing to service development, consultation, supervision, training and leadership within the team.

• Clinical or Counselling Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Family Therapists
• Psychological Therapists

The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for children, adolescents and families presenting with complex emotional and mental health difficulties.

• Delivering highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families
• Providing comprehensive assessments and formulation in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team
• Supporting urgent assessments, parenting interventions and complex specialist cases
• Working across a broad range of presentations, including anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, self-harm and behavioural difficulties
• Undertaking parent/carer work, psychoeducation, group interventions and brief therapeutic work
• Providing consultation, advice and expert clinical supervision to colleagues across SET CAMHS
• Supporting integrated multi-agency working with health, education and social care partners
• Contributing to audit, service development, clinical governance and outcome monitoring in line with CYP-IAPT principles
• Supporting the training and development of trainees, students and newly appointed staff

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).