Job Title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Location: Accrington
Salary: £50,000 to £80,000 per year (depending on experience)
Job Type: Full time, permanent contract, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Shift Pattern:
Are you kind? Compassionate? A people person? Love making a difference in people’s lives? Then we can offer you the perfect role where you will genuinely make a difference, everyday!
The Role:
We have an excellent career opportunity for the role of Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our team here at Aaban based at our 2 locations in Accrington, BB5 postcode.
Our location:
We have two 10 bedded therapeutic placements, with the units located next door to each other. We work with young people age 12 – 18 who have complex trauma, and/or additional social, emotional and mental health needs. Our referrals come from various sources, predominantly Children’s Social Care and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Members of the clinical team may at times be exposed to distressing situations or challenging behaviour. The Clinical Psychologist will play a part in identifying, providing and promoting appropriate means of support to the clinical team.
We choose to work for us?
- Aaban is a unique in-patient mental health service for young people that blends psychological, psychotherapeutic and psychosocial support with pharmacological treatment
- We are a fully integrated multi-disciplinary health and social care service that is entirely focused on supporting young people to achieve long-term, sustainable and imaginative treatment plans
- A very rewarding role in the sense that you are able to see the progression
- Plenty of training and development opportunities
- We have seen a number of our staff progress in their careers whilst working for Aaban
- DBS/ update service fee paid by us
- Reimbursement of registration fee
- 2 weeks sick pay (on a 12-month rolling basis, subject to successfully passing the probationary period)
- 33 days holidays
Our ideal candidate:
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Training should include specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical Psychologist.
- Experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other therapies to young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental differences (e.g. Learning Disabilities).
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary Specialist CAMHS team and of proving specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of delivering evidence-based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts.
- Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
- Supervised experience of evidence-based treatment in relation to children with mental health concerns.
- Empathetic to people and kind
- Good communication skills
- A desire to genuinely help other people and make a difference
- Honesty and integrity
- Kind, caring and compassionate
Key responsibilities:
- To join the multi-disciplinary Aaban Service in the delivery of mental health care to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.
- To provide specialist psychological and / or mental health input to children and young people and their families/carers.
- To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy.
- To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines and to individuals external to Aaban working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other professionals and to offer supervision as agreed per job plan.
Please note the company is not able to offer sponsorship or relocation assistance for this role so candidates must already possess the right to live and work in the UK to be considered.
If you have any questions or would like some further information on the role, please ‘APPLY’ now and we can arrange a phone call at your earliest convenience. We can’t wait to hear from you. Be sure to also check out our Instagram and Facebook pages to see what activities we’ve been up to recently, by searching ‘aabanpartnershipltd.’
