Job summary

National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N&S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit three enthusiastic and skilled Band 7 clinicians, who may be Clinical / Counselling Psychologists, Family Therapists, or Nurses, to join the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED). Following significant investment by the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership Provider Collaborative, the postholders will play a key role in an exciting new addition to our service: a South London integrated eating disorder outreach team that includes the two CAMHS MCCAED community eating disorder services and SWLSTG.

MCCAED is a Specialist Eating Disorders Service for young people aged up to 18 years and based at the Michael Rutter Centre at the Maudsley Hospital. MCCAED has a strong and longstanding commitment to developing innovative treatment, with national and international recognition for our research and training. In addition, we offer specialist training opportunities within our team for a range of professionals from all mental health disciplines, including trainees on the MSc in Family Therapy; and Clinical Psychology trainees on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, run by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide clinical services including assessment, treatment, and monitoring of outcomes and the provision of clinical supervision, consultation and training. The post holders will also contribute to service evaluation, research and policy development. There are many opportunities available within the service in relation to continued professional development.

We particularly welcome applications from Black and Ethnic Minority candidates as they are currently under-represented within the team at this level.

Key responsibilities:

• Assessment and management of young people with eating disorders
• Assessment and management of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, self-harm and OCD
• Contribution to audit and research
• Contribution to service development and service management
• Provision of clinical supervision, consultation and training to other professionals

About us

The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) is based at the Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, Maudsley Hospital, which is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).

We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. It's important to us that you feel appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer, including:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes.
• Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Our staff benefit fromkeyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

KR1 Clinical and Client Care

• To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within the eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Service. This will include specialist interventions for young people aged 2-17 years and their families.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychotherapeutic/clinical interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as care coordinator taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.

KR2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

• To contribute to the effective working of the eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Team and to the multi-disciplinary formulation-based psychotherapeutic framework for the service.
• To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

KR3 Policy and service development

• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR4 Care or management of resources

• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR5 Management and supervision

• To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of trainees / assistants if required, under supervision from a more senior clinician.
• To supervise trainees within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Training Courses Supervision Training.

KR6 Teaching and Training

• To provide occasional specialist training in psychotherapeutic approaches to care to other professions as appropriate.
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

KR7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR8 Research and development

• To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

KR9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to professional regulations and Trust guidelines.
• To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional regulations in line with Standards for Continuing Professional Development.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
• To comply with the relevant registration bodys standards of conduct, performance and ethics and standards of proficiency, and ensure professional development in line with these.
• To adhere to the relevant regulatory Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.

KR10 General

• To travel to locations as appropriate and across the Trust geography, when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or MSc PG Diploma or Doctorate in Counselling Psychology or equivalent nursing or family therapy qualification .
• Registration (or eligibility for registration) with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or equivalent professional registration with AFT, UKCP, NMC.
• Additional training in psychotherapeutic interventions

Experience

Essential

• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
• Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients with a range of mental health needs of a complex nature
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects.

Desirable

• The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
• Experience of assessment and treatment of clients with eating disorders..
• Experience of group interventions with young people and parents/carers
• Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients engaging in challenging behaviour

Understanding and knowledge

Essential

• Theoretical knowledge of a wide range of psychopathology and the evidence base for relevant treatment.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
• Knowledge of research methodology and complex statistical analysis
• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the potential physical risks associated with eating disorders.
• Knowledge of current evidence base relating to the assessment and treatment of eating disorders in children and young people

Skills

Essential

• To deliver psychotherapeutic interventions across diverse client groups.
• To select and administer specialist mental health assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
• To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews
• To plan allocation of tasks to more junior members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Well-developed IT skills.
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable

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