Clinical Psychologist

Who are we?

Kibble is Scotland’s specialist provider of services for at risk children and young people. By providing a range of integrated services, we help build positive futures for children and young people aged 5 plus, with complex social, emotional and educational needs.

Job Purpose

· Are you a Clinical Psychologist looking for an opportunity to work with young people in tailored and dynamic ways, with the length of therapy determined by you and them?

· Are you a flexible and autonomous practitioner keen to undertake varied work with young people with a range of needs and across different services?

· Are you a practitioner who puts the best interest of children and young people first?

Kibble Education and Care Centre has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist. You will join the Specialist Intervention Services (SIS) Team. This is a busy, enthusiastic, multidisciplinary team comprising a range of professions including forensic psychology, systemic family practitioners and therapists providing DBT, EMDR, integrative, play, art and counselling therapies. We also have a range of practitioners in training. We are keen to further increase the breadth of services available to the young people within our care.

We would encourage you to apply if you are interested and committed to working with children and young people who have the highest need for psychological support. There is a high degree of autonomous working and independent practice and the opportunity to work flexibly. You will have the opportunity to inform and support effective trauma-informed practice and engage in wider service development. There will be opportunities to promote and support reflective practice across different settings. Research and evaluation are actively supported.

You will be involved in undertaking highly specialist assessments, therapy and offering consultancy to internal and external professionals. You will have the opportunity to work across the full range of our services including early years, secure care, residential and community services and foster care. The role is varied and diverse with a range of practice opportunities. You will have access to regular clinical supervision and will be supported to pursue continued professional development.

You will bring your clinical expertise to this role which will ideally have involved working with a range of presentations including children with neurodevelopmental, sensory and communication needs. You will have lots of energy, initiative, recognise the importance of reflective practice and ultimately will have the best interests of children and young people at the forefront of your practice.

Main Responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of young people based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the young person’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a young person’s psychological and behavioural presentation, based on an appropriate conceptual framework, and using methods based on evidence of effectiveness and efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, staff, professionals, and families by drawing from different explanatory models and maintaining a number of professional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
• To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to young people’s formulation and treatment plan.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all young people within the service.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To ensure young people who need to be referred to CAMHS or other specialist services are properly re-routed and to input to other agencies meetings where appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people under their care and to monitor progress during the course of their care.
• To receive clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To contribute to research, service audit and evaluation.

Person Specification

Education and/or Professional Qualifications:

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS or HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Registration with the HCPC

Desirable

• Further post-doctoral training, research and / or study across a range of areas.

Experience:

Essential

• Experience of working with a wide variety of young people. Able and experienced in maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems including the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for young people’ psychological care and treatment.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

Desirable

• Experience in working with looked-after and care experienced young people.

Job Related Skills and Achievements:

• Skills to undertake clinical leadership roles and tasks within the multi-disciplinary and multi- agency contexts in which young people are cared for.
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level to colleagues, professionals and lay people, and a high level of skill and ability to foster effective partnership working.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.

Personal Attributes:

• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychology phenomena related to the development of concerning behaviour and psychological difficulties, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychology services within the context of working with high-risk young people.
• A capacity to establish priorities and organise workload effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to operate successfully within a team-based setting as well as being able to work autonomously.

Notes:

1. This job outline reflects the main tasks and responsibilities discharged by the postholder at the present time, however, Kibble reserves the right to alter or amend the content of this job outline to reflect changes to the job or services provided, while maintaining the overall character and level of responsibility for the post.

2. Notwithstanding any information or statement described within this job outline, all duties must be carried out in a way that promotes equality of opportunity, dignity and respect for all individuals and which is consistent with Kibble’s stated policy on equal opportunities.

3. The successful candidate will be subject to PVG Scheme Membership. Having previous convictions will not automatically disbar you from working at Kibble (with the exception of offences against children or other vulnerable groups) and every case is taken on an individual basis.

4. The successful candidate must be able to participate fully in Safe Crisis Management (SCM) Training and be prepared to put this training into practice.

5. Appointments will be subject to a probationary period.

Enquires: Informal enquires welcome - dan.johnson@kibble.org.

To apply: Please visit our online recruitment site - www.jobtrain.co.uk/Kibble

Closing Date: 31st March 2024