This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialist attachment and trauma informed multi-agency team, supporting care experienced children and young people and their carers. As an 8b Psychologist and Clinical Lead for the team, you will provide supervision, consultation, training and clinical oversight for the team. There are also opportunities for continued service development. An important part of the role is developing relationships with neighbouring agencies, and thinking creatively about how we enhance knowledge and skills in other professionals, ensuring that we reach the right children at the right time. This is an opportunity to work meaningfully across agencies and be part of developing a team identity and culture across varied professional disciplines. As part of your role you will hold a small caseload of children and young people with complex emotional needs related to trauma and early attachment experience. The complexities involved in therapeutic work for our young people necessitates a flexible approach to interventions, and the length of therapeutic work is always clinically driven. Anchor offers a range of therapeutic interventions including therapeutic parenting work, trauma focused interventions, attachment focused work (including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, and Theraplay), and Analytic Psychotherapy. We will support you with training and leadership development. Please contact us to discuss any bespoke training needs. Main duties of the job Providing supervision, consultation and clinical leadership to the Anchor multidisciplinary team. Working across agencies and with other professional groups to increase psychological knowledge and understanding of the impact of trauma and early adversity. Assessment, formulation, consultation, and intervention for CYPs with an emphasis on systemic thinking and the network. You would work mostly with CYPs who present with complex emotional needs as a result of early adversity and trauma, using a range of trauma and attachment informed psychological interventions that best meet the needs of the CYP. A central component of this work would be with networks and carers, as well as directly with the child. You will provide clinical leadership working in collaboration with managers, team leads and senior clinicians (appropriate to the stage of your career development) supporting the team through case discussions, formulation and care planning. About us At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Our people (all 4500 of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites. We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities. What we offer • 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service • Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours • Flexible and agile working opportunities • Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support • Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage) • Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes • Health and wellbeing opportunities If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website. Job responsibilities • Carry a caseload of appropriate size, complexity, and severity, including children and young people who have experienced early adversity and trauma. • Provide psychological therapy, where appropriate, making use of a variety of psychological models, as appropriate, with individuals, couples and/or groups. • Lead on the development of psychological provision within a specific clinical area, including taking clinical responsibility for that area as well as the leadership of staff within it. • Collaborate on direct and indirect clinical casework with other psychologists working in other specialties to ensure that gaps in service provision are identified and/or met • Promote excellent psychological practice by staff in the Team/Service and provide clinical leadership to other professionals who practice psychological approaches and promote a service consistent with the philosophy of person-centred and evidence-based practice. Person Specification Qualifications Essential • BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology • Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) • Post qualification training/ experience in specific, evidence based techniques for use with clients with complex psychological presentations and/ or physical health difficulties, across the age span • Evidence of regular further professional training and experience as required by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the BPS • Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS • Eligible for registration as a Practitioner member of the BPS Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology • Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer Desirable • Related academic qualifications to masters or doctorate level Experience Essential • Experience required specific to the role and clinical area • A minimum of 4 years of experience working as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within the relevant area • Experience of leading in relation to the development and organisation of psychological interventions within a given clinical area • Sufficient training and experience to be recognised by the Division of Clinical/Counselling Psychology as a suitably qualified psychologist to offer clinical placements to trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists • Training and experience in the application of psychological knowledge across range of mental health presentations, including organic illness, functional mental health, and physical health • Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to patients presenting with the full degree of clinical severity and across a range of clinical mental health presentations across the life span and care settings • Experience of multi-agency/ multidisciplinary working • Therapeutic expertise in working with carers/families/couples • Experience of conducting clinically relevant research Desirable • Experience of strategic planning and service development • Experience of teaching and training psychologists on a Clinical/ Counselling Psychology doctorate training course • Training and experience in specialist area of working within the clinical area Skills & Abilities Essential • Ability to challenge poor behaviour • Role modelling good behaviour • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback • Ability to praise and be supportive to others • Highly developed and effective communication skills, both oral and written, including ability to communicate complex, highly personal and sensitive information • Advanced ability to develop and maintain a therapeutic relationship, appropriately • Able to communicate effectively within the team and build good sound working relationships • Good presentation and teaching skills; able to use multi-media materials for both formal large group situations and small informal settings • Ability to use IT equipment including literature searches, data bases, patient information systems • Able to project-manage changes in relation to clinical practice and/or governance and operational issues • Able to prioritise own work and deal with competing demands to work effectively, within a highly stressed work environment • Committed to promote patients right, independence and choice e.g., through informed consent for interventions Desirable • Able to manage change through influence, persuasion and good interpersonal relationships • Able to think strategically; to consider the wider picture for developing specialist services developments, which may impact across services Knowledge • Knowledge required specific to the role and clinical area • Advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches for people with psychological problems including specialised psychological assessments and interventions for patients with complex psychological presentations and physical health conditions • Well-developed psychometric assessment skills • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis, as practiced within the field of Clinical/Counselling Psychology Additional Criteria Essential • Able to meet the travel requirements of the post Desirable • Previous publications in either peer reviewed academic or professional journal and/or books