Neurodevelopmental Clinical Psychologist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Following a successful bid the North Mersey Region has been selected as a pilot site to implement the Integrated Care Framework (Community) including the establishment of Complex Needs Teams in Liverpool and Sefton.

The target young people are those who present with high-risk/harm behaviours and vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties which are persistent, severe and framed by social contexts.

The Framework aims to meet 6 overarching objectives:

Improved CYP wellbeing
Reduction in highrisk behaviours
Reduced mental health concern
Organisations are more traumainformed
Improved purpose/occupation
Improved stability of home

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior clinical psychologist to join this newly developed team and work in partnership with the AlderHey ASD and ADHD Services at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

The senior clinical psychologist will be based in the newly launched team with the aim of providing efficient and timely assessments and support to young people with suspected neurodevelopmental conditions and complex presentations.

The successful applicant will access clinical supervision from a senior clinical psychologist in the trust and will have opportunities for ongoing personal and professional development.

The service has strong links with our CAMHS and YOS services.

To provide a qualified child clinical psychology service to the neurodevelopmental pathways at Alder Hey.

Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on the psychological care of children and families to non-psychologist colleagues in health and other agencies.

This work to be undertaken autonomously within the professional guidelines and overall framework of the services policies and procedures. To be regularly responsible for providing training placements for trainee Clinical Psychologists. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service. To collaboratively identify service priorities and take the lead on agreed elements of service development and delivery.

Alder Hey has already earned our place as one of the world's leading children's hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work.

We treat 250,000 young patients a year and have a broad range of hospital and community services, serving the local population of children, as well as being a tertiary referral centre for children from across Merseyside, Cheshire and parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales.

Every individual makes a valuable contribution and Alder Hey is proud of its long history of providing pioneering and innovative healthcare to children and young people.

The post holder must adhere to Trust Policies and Procedures at all times.

The Trust is committed to carefully screening all job applicants to ensure the safeguard of children and to an environment that promotes equality and embraces diversity.

The trust operates a flexible working policy.

The Trust is an equal opportunities employer and operates a no smoking policy.

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and highly specialist clinical service for children/adolescents with neurodevelopmental difficulties and their carers/parents and families. To undertake highly specialist multi-disciplinary, assessments of children suspected of having ASD / ADHD in conjunction with Community Pediatricians, Speech and Language Therapist and other supporting services.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of children and families referred to the service 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 observations and semi-structured interviews with children, adolescents, family members and others involved in children's and young people's
To make judgements involving highly complex facts which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment and/or management of children and young people's mental health problems, based on an appropriate multi-factorial and multi theoretical psychological understanding of the individual and/or family's problems and employing methods based upon current evidence-based practice, across the full range of care
To be responsible for undertaking a range of psychological therapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis with individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therap