Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Children & Young People

Islet Systems; Exeter; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job description

Job Summary

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).

It's 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.

Our children and young people say

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.

Date posted

01 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9369-25-0268

Job locations

Evergreen

Victoria Park Road

Exeter

EX2 4NU

Integrated Childrens Services

Fishleigh Road

Roundswell Business Park

Barnstaple

Devon

EX31 3UD

Job Description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Essential

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

Essential

• 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

Essential

• 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Evergreen

Victoria Park Road

Exeter

EX2 4NU

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/