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The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS Lanarkshire CAMHS. These posts are based in a multi-disciplinary C
locality CAMHS Team. The team works with a variety of mental health presentations with the chance to work closely with other colleagues. NHS Lanarkshire provides excellent opportunities for training and development.
To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Department’s policies and procedures.
This includes:
- Provision of psychological and cognitive assessment
- The delivery of psychological therapies within a systemic framework/model of intervention
- Advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
- Supervision of trainee clinical psychologists while on generic or specialist CAMHS placement
- Teaching of clinical psychology trainees in agreement with Professional Lead for CAMHS and Doctoral/MSc training programmes
- Teaching principles of psychological theory and therapy to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
- Provision of teaching and supervision to assistant psychologists and possibly other mental health clinicians
- Supervision of trainee research projects where necessary
- Application of research skills to guide and develop evidence based clinical practice, service development, service evaluation and clinical audit
Additional Information Specific to the Role
This post is based in a generic CAMHS Team providing a service within the geographical area of Lanarkshire. These are well established multi disciplinary teams including psychiatrist, clinical psychologists and CAMHS Mental Health Clinicians (CMHC).
NHS Lanarkshire CAMHS provide a service to infants, children and young people up to the age of 18 if they are still in secondary education. The service comprises:
• Four generic locality based CAMHS teams provide a service for children and young people presenting with moderate to severe difficulties.
• Four functional teams provide Tier 3 service to specific groups of children and their families or carers: i.e. CAYP Team working with care experienced young people, Reach Out working with children whose lives are affected by parental mental illness, the Learning Disability Team, CUIT (CAMHS Unscheduled Intervention Team) and the Paediatric Psychology Team based in Wishaw General Hospital who work with children with long term conditions.
• The CAMHS Intensive Treatment Team (CITT), provide a home based intensive treatment service to young people as an alternative to hospital admission or to facilitate earlier discharge.
There are approximately 50 Psychologists working across the CAMHS service. All Clinical Psychologists attend a monthly Professional meeting which has a CPD component. A research group meets monthly to discuss potential trainee research and service based evaluations projects. Professional supervision for this post will be provided by the Psychology Service with separate line management delivered by team co-ordinators and/or CAMHS team managers from within the MDT.
Clinical Psychologists in the service supervise trainees from both East and West of Scotland doctoral courses (offering both core and specialist placements). In addition, Clinical Psychologists provide supervision/grand parenting of supervision for the MSc course in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People. Teaching is also delivered by Clinical Psychologists on each of the Doctoral and MSc Training Programmes.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
A First Class Honours or Upper second Class degree in Psychology that provides eligibility for graduate basis for registration with British Psychological Society.
An accredited postgraduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology to meet the requirements for eligibility to register as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and as a member of the Health and Care Professions Council. Once registered as a member of the HCPC, the post holder should maintain registration. These qualifications confer an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of theoretical models and working practices.
Significant post qualification experience of working with children and young people with psychological problems and their families.
Training in and experience of, supervising doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees and trainee Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology.
Ongoing professional development activities as required to continue practising as a Clinical Psychologist, including clinical supervision and further specialist courses and training.
It would be great if you also have
Experience of representing psychology in the context of multi-disciplinary care and of providing consultation to other agencies and professionals within and outwith the NHS Experience of teaching, training and professional clinical supervision |
Post-doctoral level of knowledge of theory and evidence base relevant to CAMHS psychology Competent in the use of complex methods of clinical psychological assessment, intervention and management appropriate for work in CAMHS including clinical neuropsychology and psychometric assessment Good knowledge of relevant policies and legislation |
Well-developed skills in the ability to communication effectively orally and in writing highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outwith the NHS |
Car driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence |
Contract type
Permanent
Full time and Part Time available
37 and 18.6 hours
Please note for the part time post the salary for this position will be pro-rata.
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in CAMHS within Coathill Hospital, Coatbridge.
The working pattern for this role is 9-5 Mon - Fri and pro rata for part-time post
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Jane Killin, Clinical Manager on Jane.Killin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.
We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.
From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced. Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.
NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer. If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.