Clinical / Specialist Clinical Psychologist Job at Navigo Health and Social Care CIC (Grimsby)

Job Description

Navigo Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children & young people in North East Lincolnshire. The service provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary community mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children and young people, including those in vulnerable groups. An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in our Core CAMHS team. This post would suit someone who is passionate about providing high quality, trauma informed care and has previous experience of working with children and young people, although there is scope to support the post holder to develop their skills and experience so we welcome applications from trainees who are due to qualify in September 2026.. A preceptorship role band 7 to 8a could also be considered.

Job Responsibility

To autonomously manage a caseload of children and young people referred to Core CAMHS
To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for children and young people in the Core CAMHS
To offer psychological interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their parent/caregivers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation
To formulate psychological treatment plans that are specific to each child and family, based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models
To provide consultation and supervision to partner agencies and services, such as Children's Social Care Practitioners, School Nurses and Health Visitors, Educational Providers etc
To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options
To contribute to complex decision making around the child's emotional wellbeing and mental health needs
To provide psychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or have experienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, or relationship difficulties, and also to provide support to parents, carers and professionals working with such children
To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority support workers
To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting young people with social care needs
To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment (including skilled manipulation of test material), neuropsychological assessments, self-report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data
To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation
To provide ad-hoc support and advice to local authority staff and carers
To be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated
To contribute to service development work
To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans
To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care
Chair/facilitate complex case discussions, reflective practice sessions and multiagency meetings which may involve working closely with other agencies
To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services
To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice regarding service development and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with children and young people, carers, staff, managers and, other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas
Offer clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of the service, coordination and management, as agreed by the head of the speciality
To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex, sensitive and potentially distressing information with children, young people, parents, carers and colleagues
To communicate psychological formulations, and integration of subsequent interventions within the multidisciplinary team context
To communicate complex information to young people and carers/relatives in an empathic and supportive way
To communicate clearly and effectively in multiagency meetings where there may be conflict / challenge / hostility from other professionals
To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists within the service
To line manage other multi-disciplinary staff within the team
To implement and maintain the organisations policies and procedures
Contribute to the training/teaching of assistant psychologists

Requirements

Demonstrate post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist with children and families where there are psychological concerns
Experience of providing specialist consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies
Expertise in maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS
HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
Additional specialist training related to working with children, young people and their families and carers
Knowledge of the legal frameworks regarding children and young people
Specialist knowledge of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to client group and settings, and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits underpinned by evidence based practice
Applicants must have current UK professional registration

Nice to have

Expertise in applying a trauma informed approach to working with children and families
Additional therapy qualifications (e.g., DBT, CBT, IPT, FT-AN, EMDR, family therapy or systemic practice, VIG, DDP / Theraplay)
Have good understanding of Trauma-Informed Care principles

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