Description
Our Social Care CAMHS is seeking a highly motivated, skilled and experienced Psychologist to cover maternity leave for one year. If you are passionate about improving the mental health of young people and working with children and adolescents who are looked after by the local authority or on Child in Need or Child Protections plans, we would like to hear from you.
The role is varied and includes offering consultations to social workers and foster carers, running groups, providing individual assessments and interventions directly to young people and training social workers.
Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for the provision of specialist psychological assessments and specialist interventions to children involved with social care or who are looked after and foster carers, as well as offer consultation and support to professionals.
- Run groups
- Be involved in service evaluation, audit and service development.
- Have opportunities to supervise trainees and other staff members as appropriate
Requirements:
- Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist,
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of multi-agency working especially Social Care YJS or PRU
- Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.