Principal Clinical Psychologist Learning Disabilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Principle Clinical Psychologist to join our Tameside and Glossop CAMHS service

The CAMHS service is a community team offering a service to children and young people aged 5-18 .

The role includes

• Service improvements
• Development and delivery of training
• Conducting research, audit, and evaluation.
• Development of treatment pathways
• Consultation and intervention to CYP in the team
• Multi agency working
• Clinical supervision

The postholder will provide opportunities for support, clinical leadership, and guidance across the multi-disciplinary teams with a view to supporting evidence-based practice, a culture of reflection and learning in addition to playing a key role in supporting the well-being of our workforce. In addition, the postholder will carry a caseload . Caseload will be determined via clinical supervision and include cases of significant risk and acuity .

The post holder will work to support the wider clinical activities of the clinical psychology workforce within the team and provide cover and support across the pathways in the event of staff absence. The post holder may be expected to provide clinical supervision duties to both qualified and unqualified psychologists. The post holder will also play an active role in the promotion of psychology .

Pennine Care is a Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Foundation Trust providing a wide range of care within the community and inpatient services across a large geographical footprint across Greater Manchester.

The CAMHS Care Hub sits within the Specialist Network across 5 localities and consists of a number of teams that are friendly, caring and compassionate and strives to deliver outstanding care and treatment to service users . Our services have a strong multidisciplinary approach consisting of multiple professionals

To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for CAMHS team . To ensure the provision of a high-quality clinical psychology pathway. To provide highly specialized psychological assessment whilst offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups. To contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development.

To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trusts policies and procedures. To provide clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and groups of staff across the learning disability care hub, including psychology staff. To provide support and cover for the provision of psychology services across the team.

To play an active role in the promotion of psychology . To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To develop and engage in pathway development, ensuring the application of trauma informed models of care, using least restrictive practice.

Clinical:

To lead on care planning for service users in receipt of psychology and engage with their families and carers. To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various sources. To undertake clinical duties as necessary to support the psychology offer within the CAMHS team . To develop psychological formulations of complex difficulties to inform the teams understanding, treatment, and management of these difficulties;

discharge planning; and when appropriate recommendations for further assessment and intervention after discharge. To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies. To support the development and delivery of therapeutic, psycho educational or skills development groups as need dictates. To harness and support the development of psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation, training and liaison work and opportunities for co-working.

To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision…