Assistant Psychologist - Bedford, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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Bedford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our innovative multi-disciplinary Emotional & Behavioural Team (EBT3) in Bedford CAMHS.

We are currently doing hybrid working.

EB3 offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions to young people aged 5-18 and their families. We have close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments and completing individual and group interventions.

We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment.

The team is part of Bedfordshire CAMHS which is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of 2 emotional and behavioural teams, a LAC team, a CAMHs schools team, a parent-infant psychotherapy team, a paediatric team, a GP team, an adolescent mental health team, a crisis team and an eating disorders service and Neurodevelopment Team.

We also have embedded workers in Early Help, CDC and social care.

The post-holder will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to children, young people and their families in the North of Bedfordshire and will be based in our CAMHS hub in Bedford.

The successful post-holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team.

The post-holder will be expected to hold a high degree of autonomy and to contribute to service development projects as well as line management and clinical supervision of other team members.

For Full details of the job, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.