Specialist or Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 September 2026

'Together, WE Can' is an innovative, integrated service model supporting young people who are in residential care or on the edge of care. Our aim is to support young people to live within their own family networks wherever possible, by providing a multi-agency approach and focusing on prevention, reunification and supporting young people, in a planned way to move on into independence.

Based within the residential children's home, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team and invest and promote a relational approach to supporting young people. You will work on an individual basis with young people as well as in groups in delivering a psychosocial model of support.

You will integrate yourself within the support team, sharing the living space and daily routines of young people, providing a natural, relational approach in the delivery of your interventions. You will have a key role in supporting the wider staff team in developing their own resilience and a trauma informed approach using a variety of tools including formulation.

Although this part time (30 hours) post is advertised as an 8a post, we are willing to consider applications from Psychologists who do not yet meet the essential criteria for a Band 8a, but who would be interested in undertaking the post at a Band 7 initially, with a supportive plan for development and progression in due course.

The successful postholder will provide highly specialist psychological assessment of young people with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.

You will be responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

You will undertake risk assessment and risk management for young people and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

In addition to this, the postholder will formulate plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiate the implementation of such plans with young people and the residential team.

You will implement a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

This is a joint initiative between Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust and City of York Council - bringing health and social care together to meet the needs of young people.

The City of York are a relatively small but dynamic local authority with huge ambitions and aspirations for our children, families and communities; relentless in our determination that all children and young people in York get 'a better start in life'.

We have a reputation for delivering high quality services, however, we're not complacent and with true Yorkshire resilience, we constantly strive for further improvement.

We need practitioners who are passionate, skilled, innovative and people-centred. People who want and…