Child Clinical Psychologist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and organised Child Clinical Psychologist to work in the Psychology Team – Social Communication Assessment Pathway.
The Psychology Team provide a countywide service to children and young people across sites in Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, Grantham and Louth and you will be expected to travel to other sites in the county as required, the location of base can be negotiated. In addition, the service makes use of digital technology that supports home working which is appropriate for many aspects of this post.
For enquiries regarding the post or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Dr Chloe Isbister (Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist) on 07756872344 or chloeisbister@nhs.net Dr Sarah Wilde (Highly Specialist Child Clinical Psychologist) on sarah.wilde2@nhs.net Dr Robin Colley (Specialist Child Clinical Psychologist) on robin.colley2@nhs.net
The Psychology Team – Social Communication Assessment Pathway sits within the LPFT Child Psychological Therapies Service. You will have access to clinical and professional supervision from an experienced clinical psychologist. You will be managed within the LPFT Child Psychological Therapies Service and will have close links within this and with other health services.
You will contribute to the ongoing strategic development of the Psychology Team, providing specialist autism assessments and contributing towards psychology informed assessments as appropriate. The role will involve offering consultation and advice to all members of the MDT and liaison with parents, carers and professionals.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details
To provide clinical psychology developmental and / or mental health assessments for children and young people referred to the multi professional team which will include risk assessments as appropriate.
To carry out psychometric and cognitive assessments with children and young people.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological assessment, formulation and discharge of children and young people referred to the Service where Clinical Psychology assessment is required.
To ensure information from completed developmental assessments is disseminated and understood by all involved.
To provide clinical psychology reports for referrers and, on occasion, present these within court proceedings; at the local Out of Area Treatment panel (OAT panel).
To offer advice and guidance to staff (internal and external to the MDT) about developmental and risk assessments completed and incorporate the assessments into a multi-professional report which may recommend interventions to address identified behavioural, mental health and/or developmental needs and support staff in the provision of these interventions as appropriate.
To act as Lead Professional where appropriate.
To participate in the countywide multi-disciplinary triage clinics and attend multi professional assessment clinics to provide a Specialist Clinical Psychology opinion on understanding a child / young person’s behavioural and emotional presentation. To provide a Clinical opinion when finalising multi professional formulations regarding a child’s / young person’s behavioural and/or emotional presentation.
To provide clinical psychology expertise, knowledge, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals working both within and external to the MDT, contributing directly to the formulation of an understanding of the child’s / young person’s presenting difficulties and assisting professionals in understanding and addressing the child’s / young person’s identified strengths and weaknesses

Please refer the Job description for details