Overview
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an 8a development role as a Clinical Psychologist within our Children and Young People\'s Mental Health Services (CYPMS, formerly known as CAMHS) multidisciplinary team. The successful post holder will work within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway which includes Forest House General Adolescent Unit (FHAU), Home Treatment Team, DBT and the Eating Disorders Service.
The role involves delivering a high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway (previously Tier 4 services).
You will have HCPC registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent service within the Enhanced Specialist pathway, providing both core work and specific/specialist work. HPFT has been at the forefront on national developments in CYPMHS, Service developments.
The Enhanced Specialist services are a dynamic, caring, supportive and hard-working team which prides itself on working collaboratively with young people and stakeholders in service delivery. There are opportunities to take a lead in areas of service delivery and specialist areas of interest.
Responsibilities
* To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to young people within FHAU and across the Enhanced Specialist Pathway, working collegially within a multidisciplinary Therapies Team and the wider MDT.
* To manage a team of therapists, ensuring adequate skill mix and cover for the services.
* Providing support and supervision to your team in line with need and Trust policy.
* To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment, and offer advice and consultation on young people\'s psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers and parents.
* To provide case management around a subset of young people within FHAU, ensuring safe, secure and joined up care and treatment within hospital, and between hospital, home and involved services/agencies, and to direct and guide members of the Therapy Team to do the same.
Qualifications
* HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist with child and adolescent specialism (or eligible).
* Experience delivering psychological services within CAMHS/CYPMS and multidisciplinary settings.
About HPFT
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the organisations delivering health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk.
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