Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Child & Adolescent/Systemic Family Psychotherapist to take on a new ongoing contract role.
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Child & Adolescent/Systemic Family Psychotherapist Pay Rate: £40 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Sutton
Contract Type: 3-month contract
Shift Pattern: The post holder will be required to work flexible hours as agreed with the local authority within the current pattern of working days or the post holder will be required to work flexible hours in line with GP surgery hours and the ‘Improving Access’ agenda. This will include occasional week-day evenings.
Benefits of working with us:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Clinical Psychology roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
- Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer a Clinical Psychologist and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Clinical Psychologists you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum Clinical Psychologist provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties:
- Provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young person’s care
- Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings
- Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system
- Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans
- Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children
- Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group
- Undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
- Act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care
- Organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care
Requirements of the Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Child & Adolescent/Systemic Family Psychotherapist:
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist under the domain of Clinical Psychologist, or Qualified Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist having successfully completed a training course recognised/accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or equivalent, and registered with ACP, or Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, and post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees
- Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings
- Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing appropriate to a variety of audiences
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Evidence of potential to provide collaborative team leadership
- Knowledge of UK legislation in relation to the health and welfare services to children and adolescents and mental health
- Knowledge of employment legislation
- Ability to behave in accordance with our values: respectful/open/collaborative/compassionate & kind/consistent
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to work within relevant mechanisms of clinical governance
- Ability to maintain high clinical standards when exposed to highly emotive material or challenging behaviour
- Ability to work creatively, cooperatively, reliably and consistently
- Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems
Contact:
This Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Child & Adolescent/Systemic Family Psychotherapist job is advertised by Deane Garrard; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: Forensic Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist & Educational Psychologist as we have suitable positions for all of these. If you’re looking for Psychotherapist, Assistant Psychologist or other Mental Health roles we also have these type of vacancies available.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Psychologist role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
