Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Children & Young People

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Barnstaple, Exeter; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job description

Location: Exeter, EX2 4NU & Barnstaple, EX31 3UD
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 13th April 2025

We are looking for Practitioner Psychologists (Clinical or Counselling) to join us in our Mood, Emotions and Relationships pathway, providing mental health provision to children, young people and families across Devon. We have vacancies in our multi-disciplinary teams in North Devon (1 WTE) and Exeter/East Devon (0.6 WTE).

Its an exciting time of change, developing our pathways under iThrive. We are passionate and committed to providing high quality services to improve outcomes for children and young people.

We would love to hear from colleagues who can bring their psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention skills to collaborative MDT working within this pathway at an exciting time of development.

Main duties of the job

As a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling), you will be offering high-quality psychological assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families who access the support of these pathways. You will bring skills in formulation and consultation to your team alongside contributing to wider service development.

There will be CPD opportunities to support the development of your clinical knowledge and skills.

You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management. There is a strong and friendly network of Psychologists working across CFHD, enjoying shared CPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with the South West Doctoral training courses and regularly host trainee placements.

We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.

About us

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
• Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, frequent distressing and highly emotional clinical work.
• Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
• High level knowledge of clinical presentations in children and young people.

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse.
• Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence-based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.

Qualifications

• A Professional Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
• Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Joint Lead for Psychological Professions