Clinical Psychologist

Job Description

We are currently seeking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist who has a strong interest in working with children with neurodevelopmental difficulties including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and paediatric conditions to join our new and innovative Hull and East Riding Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will have the exciting opportunity to be part of the specialist assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions and interventions for neurodevelopmental difficulties alongside providing supervision to MDT members and consultations and training to other agencies. If you have relevant skills and experience with complex clinical work, supervision and consultation in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting, we would be delighted to hear from you. You will join a busy and well established team consisting of Nurses with a broad range of specialities, Art Therapy, Psychology and Psychiatry. You will have the opportunity to influence the development of the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Services at a systemic and interagency level.This post is being offered as a developmental post in which the band 7 post holder will be supported through a developmental pathway into an 8a promotion. However, applicants currently already a Band 8a can also apply. Progression from band 7 to band 8a is subject to the post holder successfully evidencing development against the agreed competency profiles. The competency profile will include the ISW training, experience supervising assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and other professionals; receiving post qualification training in an area relevant to the role; leading on teaching or training for a range of professionals; leading on consultations and working with increasingly complex presentations (as available within the role).This will be reviewed at regular intervals with the clinical supervisor and line manager. We anticipate that progression would take place over a 1.5-2 year period from qualification from the Doctoral training course and would involve close supervision from a clinical supervisor and may involve use of the live supervision model. If the post holder already has significant band 7 post qualification experience, then the progression time period may be reduced. If you have any questions about this, please do not hesitate to contact us to arrange a discussion.Why work for usHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addiction services to approximately 600,000 people.We employ approximately 2,500 staff across more than 70 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby and Scarborough. We deliver mental Health Services, specialist services for children, Forensic Services, Community and Learning Disability Services, as well as having eight GP practices across the locality.Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - a multi-specialty health and social care teaching provider is committed to Caring, Learning and Growing. We aim to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care compassion and commitment of our staff and known as a great employer and a valued partner.As a teaching Trust, we work closely with our academic partners, including Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Hull University, nurturing and developing a workforce of doctors, nurses and other health and social care professionals of the future.At Humber we believe our people are our greatest asset and therefore we are committed to developing, growing and rewarding our workforce. As an employee at Humber you will benefit from pay in line with Agenda for Change, NHS pension, training and development, annual appraisal, generous annual leave entitlement and flexible working options to enable you to achieve a healthy work/life balance.LocationHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust serves the rural populations of Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Hull has benefitted from being included The Guardian’s ‘Hot List’ of places to visit and rated by Rough Guides as one of the top ten cities in the world to see. The nearby town of Beverley was named by The Sunday Times as one of the ten best places to live in the north. The area boasts a wide array of diverse property from coastal cottages to riverside apartments. Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire offer some of the most competitive house prices in the country, with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers.The region has transport connections with a direct train service to London that takes less than three hours, as well as an hour commute to York or Leeds. Want to go further afield There are daily ferry crossings from Hull to Belgium and the Netherlands and from Humberside Airport you can reach destinations across Europe and – via Schiphol – worldwide.This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to the extensive transformation work being undertaken by not only the wider children’s mental health, neurodevelopmental and learning disability services which includes a single point of access/primary mental health service, care pathway model, crisis support, a new CAMHS Inpatient Model and focused specialist services for Eating Disorders and Long Term health Conditions, but also the wider local neurodiversity work. We also have a strong focus on evidence based practice and the use of routine outcome measures. There is a commitment to ongoing staff training to enable practitioners to have accredited therapeutic and supervisory skills. We are also working towards having more participation from young people and their families in directi