South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 21 October 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Calderdale CAMHS Core and Neurodevelopmental Assessment Teams. We welcome applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists with an interest in CAMHS, Clinical Psychologists looking for progression from a Band 7-8a or Clinical Psychologists already in an 8a role.
We welcome applicants to contact us to discuss the role as there is variation within the role and expectations dependent on experience.
The Calderdale CAMHS team is a small and friendly multi-disciplinary team who are supportive to each other and receive consistent feedback about this from students and trainees.
The post holder will deliver high quality assessment, formulation and intervention for children, young people and families accessing the service with mental health needs. They will also have the opportunity to undertake neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people present with autism and/or ADHD. An interest in neurodevelopment is required but no prior experience is needed in relation to neurodevelopmental assessments as full training will be provided.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Main duties of the job
To attend the weekly team meeting and support staff with clinical formulation and decision making
To undertake extended assessments where a child or young person's needs are difficult to identify and support formulation and recommendations to the system and network.
To offer therapeutic intervention work to children, young people, parents and carers
To offer clinical supervision to staff within the service
To undertake clinical supervisor training in order to offer trainee clinical psychology placements
To support the staff team with formulation of children and young people where needs are complex or there are complicating factors
To offer training to the staff team
To undertake cognitive assessments where appropriate to inform formulation and to support intervention work
To undertake group work within the service which may include waiting well, DBT, CBT and parent/carer groups
To undertake neurodevelopmental assessments which include an activity-based assessment, parental interview and ADOS-2. Full training will be offered if needed.
To attend the neurodevelopmental multi-disciplinary team meeting to support discussions and formulation
To undertake report writing for both pathways.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Job responsibilities
To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post.
* HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of groupwork.
Training
* Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Personal Attributes
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
Special Knowledge & Skills
* Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
* Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes.
* Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance.
* Ability to Formulate Complex processes.
* Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
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