Advanced Practitioner / Psychologist / Creative Practitioner

Main area Advanced Practitioner, Creative practitioner or Counselling/Clinical Psychologist Hull CLA CAMHS Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working
• Home or remote working

30 hours per week Job ref 338-8210535-26

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Walker Street Town Hull Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

Advanced Practitioner / Psychologist / Creative Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 7

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Practitioner, Creative Practitioner, or Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the East Riding CAMHS Looked After Children Team.

We are seeking to employ an Advanced Practitioner or Creative Practitioner who holds HCPC registration, or a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who has experience in the assessment, formulation, and therapy of children and young people with histories of trauma.

The appointed clinician will join a committed multidisciplinary CLA Service within East Riding CAMHS. The main duties will include consultation with professionals and other agencies, undertaking assessments of children and young people, as well as the networks around them, and offering direct therapeutic interventions informed by clear formulations. The team also provides support to the Local Authority Children's Residential Homes.

This is an exciting time to be joining the service due to the transformational work underway, with the vision of becoming trauma-informed and developing the AMBIT framework across CAMHS pathways.

Main duties of the job

• To provide advanced assessments and therapeutic interventions for young people who are looked after, including children & young people living in residential children’s homes and foster placements.
• To offer psychological interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their carers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation.
• To contribute to complex decision making around, for example, the commissioning of external therapeutic interventions for young people and/or their carers.
• To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation, wellbeing support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.
• To deliver evidence based interventions, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.
• To contribute to complex decision making around the child’s emotional well-being and mental health needs within their placement.
• To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other. agencies/professionals such as local authority social workers.
• To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting young people who are looked after or are care leavers.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications, Education & Training

• Current professional registration (e.g. HCPC, NMC, SWE)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body.
• Postgraduate training in psychological therapy models relevant to the clinical area
• Relevant Post-basic clinical qualification(s) with a professional portfolio supporting this.
• Registered with appropriate clinical professional body: e.g. Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Psychology (Educational, Counselling, Clinical or Forensic) and be registered with the relevant statutory body (NMC, HCPC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, SWE, SCW, SSSC or NISCC or BACP).
• Experience working clinically with Children Looked After presenting with complex trauma..
• Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of sound post -registration professional practice
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi - professional and multi -agency partnerships
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities

• Able to produce written reports to a high standard
• Experience producing psychological formulations
• Ability to support and engage foster carers and other professionals
• Experience facilitating group reflective sessions

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  Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

  This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

  Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

  If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

  We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

  IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

  If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

  On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

  To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

  This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

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  You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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