Clinical Psychologist
The closing date for completed applications for this post is 9am on Tuesday 30 April 2024, and it is anticipated interviews will take place on Thursday 16 May 2024 (on site / face to face interviews only).
Hours: 2 days/14 hours per week.
Salary: Salary is subject to qualifications and experience. Should you wish to discuss this further please contact Rossie directly (01674 820204) and request to speak with the CEO or DCEO.
Rossie is a registered charity, a multidisciplinary organisation with a high local, regional and national profile located close to Montrose. We are actively involved in the Scottish Government and Promise Scotland in delivering the change programme for young people. We are enthusiastically engaged with national and international research. We provide education, care, health and specialist psychological services to the most vulnerable young people across Scotland and the UK. All of our young people are assessed as having additional support needs (ASN) as a result of trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in their lives and many have comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health difficulties. Our young people have been placed in our care via the Children Hearing Panels or Courts.
Our vision is to be a ‘Centre of Excellence that Changes Lives’ and we have received very good and excellent grades in both our Education and Care Inspections. We have won, and continue to win, multiple awards for staff, our young people and the organisation, which provides independent validation of our relentless commitment to continuous improvement. We are determined to retain and build on our sector leading status.
The Specialist Intervention, Health & Wellbeing (SIHW) Team is a specialist psychological and trauma informed service that works directly with our young people who present with a range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges and who can pose a risk to themselves and to others. The SIHW Team ensures a therapeutic environment for our young people and the team works directly offering highly specialist psychological services, assessment, consultation, and risk formulations. We also provide staff training, service evaluation, teaching and training to ensure evidence-based practice is embedded in the wider system.
The provision of a specialist, therapeutic and comprehensive psychological service ensures our young people and others involved in their care and support have access to high quality assessments and interventions which address a range of needs and take account of relevant risk factors and formulations. We promote a multi-theoretical approach to ensure that the broad range of needs are understood and accounted for when care plans are being designed and delivered.
As a Clinical Psychologist, you will utilise a broad range of psychological theories and a treatment modalities to oversee, enhance and deliver interventions using specialist psychological assessments and formulations. You will provide specialist clinical knowledge, support, and guidance to the relevant members of SIHW Team ensuring all psychological interventions are delivered in accordance with best practice standards.
You will provide supervision to the trainee/assistant psychologists and other multi-disciplinary practitioners in the team. You will provide advice and guidance on psychological care to other professionals, carers and families. As part of a multi-disciplinary organisation, you will actively contribute towards the training and support of staff involved in the delivery of specialist interventions to young people.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Provision of high-quality consultation to professionals and service users regarding mental health, risk assessment formulation and risk management.
- Delivery of effective assessments, formulations and interventions to meet the bespoke needs/profile of our young people.
- Lead responsibility in the preparation of formulations on/with all young people understanding past difficulties and identifying their strengths to work towards better futures
- To oversee and support the progress of effective risk formulations to ensure collective understanding between all relevant staff involved in the care of the young people.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate treatment options, drawing on all relevant theoretical and therapeutic models, while understanding young people’s complex historical and developmental factors
- Exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, and treatment of young people on the psychological element of their care plans.
- Ensure appropriate referrals of young people who require CAMHS or other specialist services and contribute to internal and external meetings as required.
To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of the psychological service by all members of the team.
- Provide specialist psychological advice and guidance to Care, Education and health professionals
- Take a lead role in ensuring oversight and support for determining psychological processes, trauma and attachment practice
- To provide expert consultation about the care of the client group to forums beyond the consultation clinics e.g. conferences and represent the service.
Develop high quality, responsive and accessible intervention service for our young people advising on elements of the service where psychological matters pertain to our young people
- Undertake complex and specialised risk assessments and risk management plans for all young people to ensure their safety and that of others
- Work collaboratively with Care and Education Teams, advising of appropriate risk and behaviour management strategies.
- Provide professional advice to other staff in managing risk behaviours
- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, drawing on relevant theoretical and therapeutic models, while understanding young people’s complex historical and developmental factors
- Lead in the running of therapeutic groups as required ensuring specialist input is available.
To provide specialist advice, consultation and training to staff in the SIHW Team.
- Provide professional advice, guidance and training to colleagues to promote understanding of psychological interventions and risk formulations as part of multi-disciplinary working.
- Provide clinical supervision/appraise and oversee the workload of Assistant/Trainee Psychologist(s)
- Provide placements and supervision for Doctoral and Masters Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other Applied Psychologists.
- Maintain and develop personal skills in the area of professional and post-graduate training in assessment, formulation, treatment and clinical supervision
- Engage in clinical supervision as per professional guidelines
To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the service.
- To review, develop and make representation as appropriate on new practices, methodologies and formulations which would be relevant for high quality delivery of outcomes for our young people.
- In consultation with the SIHW Manager, undertake appropriate research and evaluations
- To ensure up to date knowledge of expert psychological methodologies including knowledge of literature, research, legislation and policy direction to allow the best quality of service for our young people.
Please note this job description is to provide a clear and concise statement of the main tasks and activities of the post, and it is not intended as an exhaustive list of every aspect of the post holder's duties. All the above duties will be carried out in line with Rossie policies and procedures.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Qualifications (Essential):
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS/HCPC
- Evidence of continued commitment to personal and professional development
Qualifications (Desirable):
- Further post-doctoral training, research and study
Experience (Essential):
- Working with a wide variety of service user groups
- Delivering psychological assessment tools, interventions and formulations
- Working with young people who present a risk of harm to others
- Delivering professional and clinical supervision
Experience (Desirable):
- Participation in research
Knowledge Base (Essential):
- National operating framework for psychology health and wellbeing services including regulatory processes of HCPC, BPS
- Child and adolescent development, attachment theory and trauma informed care
- Risk assessments
- Safeguarding and Child Protection procedures
- The broad range of needs of complex vulnerable young people, ACEs, ASD
- Legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the young people
Knowledge Base (Desirable):
- GIRFEC
- The Promise
- Post-graduate training in trauma based therapies
- Experience in the structured professional judgement model of risk assessment
Skills (Essential):
- Delivery of clinical supervision to a range of professionals
- Provision of consultation as relevant
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Excellent communication (written, oral, presentation, IT) skills
Personal Attributes (Essential):
- Diplomatic and reflective
- Responsive and solution focused
- Emotionally Intelligent
Full Driving Licence (Essential).
- Looking for a particular department?
- Specialist Intervention Services
- Role
- Clinical Psychologist
- Locations
- Montrose
Montrose
About Rossie Young People's Trust
Rossie is a multidisciplinary organisation which aims to help vulnerable children and young people prepare for independent living. We provide accommodation, bespoke care and individualised education, ensuring all areas of our young people’s health are being met. We have been caring for boys, aged 10-18, since 1857 and boys and girls, aged 10-18 since 1984. We are committed to helping our young people in care build strategies to cope with their past, while they prepare for their future. We deliver all our services in a safe and nurturing environment where our young people can grow, develop and thrive, at their own pace.
Clinical Psychologist
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