Practitioner Psychologist

We are looking for an enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical) to join our Specialist CAMHS team in our Hastings locality in East Sussex. You will join a friendly, collaborative and experienced multidisciplinary team delivering specialist CAMHS support across a wide range of presentations.

This is an exciting time to join Sussex CAMHS as we are transforming how we work to ensure children, young people and their families have access to timely, needs-led and evidence-based interventions, aligned with Thrive principles.

This role would suit a newly qualified psychologist or someone looking to further develop their clinical skills across a broad range of CAMHS presentations. You will deliver specialist psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions, and contribute to developing intervention frameworks across the service.

Main duties of the job

As a Practitioner Psychologist within Specialist CAMHS, your role will include:

• Providing specialist psychological assessments and formulation-driven care planning
• Delivering evidence-based psychological interventions to children, young people and families using a range of therapeutic modalities
• Contributing to initial assessment clinics, supporting young people to explore their goals and develop care plans
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to shared clinical decision-making
• Contributing to needs-led intervention frameworks, including for example, trauma-informed and emotional intensity (DBT-informed) work
• Participating in service evaluation, audit and ongoing service development
• Supporting participation initiatives with young people and experts by experience
• Working closely with CAMHS colleagues and liaising with partner agencies and wider services

About us

You will join a well-established and supportive Specialist CAMHS team offering a broad range of individual, family and group interventions.

The service is aligned with Thrive principles and is committed to evidence-based practice, routine outcome monitoring and continuous service improvement.

You will also be part of the wider East Sussex CAMHS Psychology and Psychological Therapies network, working alongside psychologists across CAMHS neurodevelopmental services, learning disability and children in care services.

The team works closely with partner agencies and other services, providing opportunities for collaborative working across the system.

You will have access to regular clinical supervision, CPD opportunities and opportunities to contribute to wider service development and innovation.

Job responsibilities

As part of the wider East Sussex CAMHS service, you will:

• Work within the Psychology and Psychological Therapies (PP) professional network
• Receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinical psychologist
• Work closely with the locality manager, lead psychologist and MDT colleagues
• Attend local and county-wide psychology meetings and engage in CPD opportunities
• Contribute to ongoing service improvement, compassionate care and psychologically informed practice across CAMHS

Person Specification Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK , including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological working (assessment, formulation and treatment) with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient and residential care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of applied psychology
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.