Psychologist

PE Global Healthcare is working with a voluntary organisation providing comprehensive services for adults with intellectual disabilities and children with complex needs.

We are currently looking to recruit highly motivated Psychologists to work in a dynamic & well established Children’s Teams in North Cork.

Overview of the Post To work as a member of the interdisciplinary Children’s Disability Network Team providing quality services in a Family Centred Practice model to children aged 0-18 years and their families within the region. The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a psychology services to include assessment and universal, targeted and direct intervention in an interdisciplinary model.

The successful candidate will have:

Essential Criteria:

• Have a university degree or diploma (QQ1 level 8 equivalent) obtained with 1st or 2nd class honours in which Psychology was taken as a major subject and honours obtained in that subject

And

• Have an Irish post-graduate professional psychology qualification accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland in Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology

Or

• An equivalent qualification from another jurisdiction validated by the Department of Health.

And

• Demonstrate competence in the Care Group/s applied for.

And

• For Senior Posts: -Applicants must have at least five years satisfactory post-graduate experience in the area of professional psychology, no more than three years of which was spent in gaining the postgraduate professional qualification and no less than two years full-time spent in post qualification experience as a professional psychologist. Years in excess of the permitted three years for completion of the post-graduate training or time not worked will not be taken into consideration when assessing the five years’ experience requirement.

And

• Applicants with a clinical, counselling, or educational psychology qualification must demonstrate that they have acquired in appropriate health settings, for the area of Child Disability – either at least 60 days or equivalent supervised clinical placements as part of the professional qualification; or at least 60 days or equivalent post-qualification supervised work experience as a psychologist.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Professional/Clinical

• To provide psychological assessments individually and as part of a team to children with, or at risk of, complex needs and complete appropriate reports.

• To design appropriate interventions for children with behaviours of concern in response to child and family needs and goals, and where indicated in collaboration with staff in mainstream or special education settings.

• To participate in the development of Individual Family Service Plans (IFSPs).

• To undertake relevant psychological interventions/therapies in relation to children with complex needs.

Please call Amy on 083 0901963 or email amy.dormer@peglobal.net for further details