Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 301-KM-24-6833888
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Anglesey House
- Town
- Rugeley
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate and skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologists to join the Children & Young People’s Autism Service in South Staffordshire: a multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention service.Ìý These are busy times and so we are working to improve our service pathways to ensure efficient service delivery and an improved patient experience.Ìý If you are excited by the opportunity to be a part of our service transformation and you have a passion for delivering and developing psychologically informed care for children and young people with autism, then we’d like to hear from you.
You will be responsible for providing specialist psychological input across our diagnostic and intervention pathways.Ìý You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team but will also have professional links through other psychologists in the team and a professional leadership structure.
We can offer full time or part time opportunities and will consider requests for flexible working.Ìý It is a requirement to work at the base and across sites in South Staffordshire but hybrid working will also be a possibility.
MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary- at 50% on commencement of employment with us and 50% following 12 months employment.Ìý We are also able to consider enhanced training and development opportunities for anyone already with MPFT.
Main duties of the job
To learn more about our service, please view the below videos:
To provide aÌýÌýhighly specialist psychology service to Children and Young People with autism, or possible autism, diagnoses in South Staffordshire.Ìý You will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological Ìýinput across three main areas:
- ÌýAutism assessment
- Highly specialist advice, support and intervention to CYP with a diagnosis of autism and their families.
- Highly specialist advice, support and intervention to young people (19-25) with anÌýÌýÌý existing diagnosis of autism and an Education & Health Care Plan.
This role will incorporate highly complex psychological assessments leading to Ìýpsychological formulations of distress; interpretation and opinion; and forming judgements to inform service provision and providing necessary psychological ÌýÌýÌýÌýinterventions.
To be responsible for the clinical supervision of less experienced psychologists and assistant psychologists, and supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other members of the CYP autism service who provide psychologically based care and intervention.
To provide placements for psychologists in training as required following gaining the necessary post-qualification requirements.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helpingÌý your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;Ìý
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.Ìý
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions in the ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýChildren & Young People’s Autism Service. This role will deliver a service across the South Staffordshire Ìýarea (Cannock, Stafford, Seisdon, Burton, Lichfield & Tamworth areas). This role will involve highly complex assessments leading to psychological formulations, development of care plans, the delivery of interventions to this population and use of outcome measures to evaluate service effectiveness.
To provide highly specialist diagnostic assessments of children and young people to include standardised Ìýassessments such as ADOS 2 and ADI-R.
To work as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). The psychologist will present complex assessment information in MDT meetings and work with colleagues in MDT to agree whether referred Ìýchildren and young people meet diagnostic criteria for autism.Ìý
To provide a range of highly specialised post-diagnostic intervention services. This will include direct work with children and young people, group based interventions for children and young people and/or their carers, consultation and training for carers and professionals, and development of a range of information resources.
The post holder will be required to work in clinic and community settings such as CAMHS clinic bases, nurseries, schools and children’s centres and with children and parents in their own homes.
Please do view and read the job description for more detailed information on the role.Ìý We also encourage you to contact us if you would like to discuss this role further.Ìý
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and eligible for registration as a Chartered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy).
- Current registration/accreditation with appropriate body with current practicing certificate.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Further training in a specific psychological assessment, model or intervention specific to the role remit/area of work
- Qualification in one or more recognised and accredited diagnostic assessment/s for Autistic Spectrum Conditions.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course; presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings. Clinical experience that maintains a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Ability to work effectively within safeguarding procedures in the context of a therapeutic service.
Desirable criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience working therapeutically with children and young people with significant emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, and their families/carers.
- Experience of working with CYP with social and communication difficulties associated with autism.
- Experience of group work, particularly of relevance for Children and Young people with ASC and their carers.
- Experience of specialist standardised assessments for ASC such as ADOS 2 or ADI-R.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with third sector providers.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working clinically with people who present with challenging behaviours, and/or people who have communication difficulties.
- Experience of leading and contributing to the development of services.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions.
- Ability to utilise psychometric tests competently and be aware of their limitations
- Ability and knowledge relating to self-harm and safeguarding related risk assessment and care-planning.
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi- media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wendy Hallows
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01785 221665
- Additional information
Chris Faram, Professional Lead for Psychological Services,Ìý
Chris. [email protected]
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