Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Hampshire County Council are thrilled to offer an exceptional opportunity for a skilled and motivated Senior Psychologist to join our expanding Partners in Practice (PiP) Team.
We are growing our innovative, well established clinical service embedded within Hampshire Children's Services hubs. The PiP team provides high quality consultation, specialist training, and evidence based interventions for children and young people supported by Children's Services.
As a Psychologist within PiP, you will bring clinical expertise, curiosity, and creativity to a multidisciplinary environment. You will deliver specialist assessments, formulation driven interventions, and reflective consultation to social care colleagues, helping to shape trauma informed, psychologically led practice across the county.
This role offers the chance to influence system wide change, contribute to service development, and work at the interface of health and social care - a unique and rewarding professional challenge.
Our CAMHS teams have a strong and supportive culture, with excellent structures regarding supervision and support. This isa great opportunity to join our service as part of HIOW NHS Foundation Trust Children & Families Service line to support the delivery of high-quality children's mental health services. We are looking for exceptional individuals who share our passion to deliver the best quality care and experiences for children and their families.
The post holder will:
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within an MDT, providing a quality-driven, highly specialist applied psychology service to young people, their families and carers under the care of the Hampshire CAMHS service.
- Clients will be presenting with severe and complex mental health problems, requiring a range of psychological interventions in line with their needs and goals.
- The postholder will also support psychological practice within the team through consultation, formulation, supervision and training. They will participate in systematic clinical governance, including the development and delivery of clinical care pathways and the provision of supervision to assistant, trainee, and junior psychologists, as well as other staff.
- They will use research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- The postholder will be expected to comment on and propose changes to policy or service development within the psychology service and team as necessary.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
*Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: a master's degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
