Senior Assistant Psychologist - Grantham, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Grantham, United Kingdom

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We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and organised Senior Assistant Psychologist to join our community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (LPFT Core CAMHS Grantham).


The successful applicant ideally will have experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist within a CAMHS setting or an Assistant Practitioner within CAMHS.


The Senior Assistant Psychologist will offer psychologically informed intervention within Grantham CORE CAMHS Team and will need to be able to travel within this large rural part of the county.

There will be a mix of working from home using video platforms and face to face working, predominantly at the CAMHS work base.


LPFT CAMHS is a specialist multi disciplinary service which offers assessment and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who present with complex mental health problems as well as to children and young people who have experienced trauma and/or attachment difficulties.

The service is very well established and is staffed with clinical psychologists, child psychiatrists, mental health practitioners (qualified nurses, social workers and occupational therapists), specialist therapists including CBT therapists; systemic psychotherapists;,assistant practitioners and assistant psychologists and peer support workers.


Main areas of work will include:
Providing initial CAMHS assessments (face to face or via video)

Providing evidence based mental health and psychology interventions - group based or individual (face to face or via video)


The successful applicant will need to have experience of working in a CAMHS setting and will need to evidence that they can work under pressure and provide an engaging and meaningful psychology and mental health service to children and young people and their parents/carers who are assessed as having significant mental health concerns.


Professional and clinical supervision for the post holder will be provided by a clinical psychologist within CAMHS and line management supervision will be overseen by a CAMHS team coordinator.


Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.


You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.

In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We're really proud of this


We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.


Under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist:

  • To provide a high standard of psychology assessment and intervention to children and young people and their families referred to LPFT CAMHS where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.
  • To develop and provide a range of psychology assessments and interventions either as the sole clinician or in conjunction with other CAMHS colleagues; with other staff and agencies responsible for providing services to children and young people and their carers and families.
  • To act as case coordinator / lead professional.
  • To develop and provide a range of psychology assessments and interventions to vulnerable children and young people including Looked After Children; children and young people who have mild to severe Learning Disabilities; children who are at risk of contact with, or who have contact with, the Youth Justice Service.
  • To provide psychology assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people who have been the victims of sexual abuse.
  • To contribute to developmental assessments, including cognitive assessments, to help understand underlying learning difficulties which may be impacting on a child's / young person's presentation at home and at school.
  • To provide group interventions as well as individual and carer focused interventions, assisting with the planning and delivery of group interventions.
  • Work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with m
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