- To provide clinical psychology developmental and / or mental health assessments for children and young people referred to the multi professional team which will include risk assessments as appropriate.
- To carry out psychometric and cognitive assessments with children and young people.
- To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological assessment, formulation and discharge of children and young people referred to the Service where Clinical Psychology assessment is required.
- To ensure information from completed developmental assessments is disseminated and understood by all involved.
- To provide clinical psychology reports for referrers and, on occasion, present these within court proceedings; at the local Out of Area Treatment panel (OAT panel).
- To offer advice and guidance to staff (internal and external to the MDT) about developmental and risk assessments completed and incorporate the assessments into a multi-professional report which may recommend interventions to address identified behavioural, mental health and/or developmental needs and support staff in the provision of these interventions as appropriate.
- To act as Lead Professional where appropriate.
- To participate in the countywide multi-disciplinary triage clinics and attend multi professional assessment clinics to provide a Specialist Clinical Psychology opinion on understanding a child / young persons behavioural and emotional presentation. To provide a Clinical opinion when finalising multi professional formulations regarding a childs / young persons behavioural and/or emotional presentation.
- To provide clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals working both within and external to the MDT, contributing directly to the formulation of an understanding of the childs / young persons presenting difficulties and assisting professionals in understanding and addressing the childs / young persons identified strengths and weaknesses. Person Specification
- BPS accredited honours degree in Psychology
- A Doctorate Qualification in Clinical Psychology accredited by the BPS and HCPC.
- Registered member of HCPC.
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level
- Additional specialist training related to working with children, young people and their families and carers, including additional specialist training in assessment of and working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental concerns including autism, ADHD.
- Registered member of BPS
- Registered member of DCP
- Clinical supervision training for doctorate clinical psychology trainees.
- Eligible for chartered status as a clinical psychologist
- Experience of working as a trainee clinical psychologist with children, young people and their carers and families where there are psychological concerns.
- Experience of providing clinical psychology assessments of children and young people in the context of their living situations which may include - living with biological parents; with separated parents; with other relatives; with foster carers; in residential children's homes; in-patient settings; EBD schools - residential or non-residential.
- Clinical psychology assessment skills which include: ouse of psychometric assessments of intelligence, memory, reading, social functioning; executive functioning; ouse of behavioural assessments; ouse of observational methods of assessment oassessment by interviewing oassessment by analysis of archive material
- Experience of developing and providing clinical psychology interventions and intervention packages for use with children, young people and their carers and families.
- Experience of providing clinical psychology advice to parents and carers and staff concerning the care and/or therapeutic provision for children and young people.
- Knowledge of and experience of child protection and safeguarding issues and procedures.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Experience in using ADOS; ADI-R and / or DISCO
- Experience of working with children and young people with a range of disabilities and special needs from mild to extensive difficulties including learning difficulties; physical difficulties; chronic and acute health problems and developmental difficulties
- Experience of working with looked after children and their carers who have experienced abuse - physical, sexual, emotional.
- Experience of providing supervision to other psychologists; to other professionals who work with children and young people and their carers and families.
- Experience of providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience of providing teaching and training to other psychologists and other unqualified and qualified people.
- Ability to prioritise and organise commitments to meet deadlines
- Ability to contribute to policy and service development forums and propose changes and developments.
- Knowledge of professional guidelines set out by: - HCPC, the BPS; the Health Trust and capable of interpreting these guidelines and policies and taking action as appropriate
- Masters or doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of relevant child protection, safeguarding, mental capacity and mental health legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management when working with children, young people and their families/carers.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as dictated by the HCPC and the BPS.
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience of being involved in a service development and proposing changes.
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Child Clinical Psychologist - Lincoln, United Kingdom - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and organised Child Clinical Psychologist to work in the Psychology Team - Social Communication Assessment Pathway.
The Psychology Team provide a countywide service to children and young people across sites in Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, Grantham and Louth and you will be expected to travel to other sites in the county as required, the location of base can be negotiated. In addition, the service makes use of digital technology that supports home working which is appropriate for many aspects of this post.
For enquiries regarding the post or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Dr Chloe Isbister (Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist) on or Dr Sarah Wilde (Highly Specialist Child Clinical Psychologist) on Dr Robin Colley (Specialist Child Clinical Psychologist) on
Main duties of the job
The Psychology Team - Social Communication Assessment Pathway sits within the LPFT Child Psychological Therapies Service. You will have access to clinical and professional supervision from an experienced clinical psychologist. You will be managed within the LPFT Child Psychological Therapies Service and will have close links within this and with other health services.
You will contribute to the ongoing strategic development of the Psychology Team, providing specialist autism assessments and contributing towards psychology informed assessments as appropriate. The role will involve offering consultation and advice to all members of the MDT and liaison with parents, carers and professionals.
About us
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.
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