This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding team following significant investment.

We are seeking a x3 Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our busy and dynamic outpatient EWMHS (CAMHS) team in Redbridge on a permanent contract. We have a growing and supportive psychology team, and we are looking for a psychologist or CBT therapist who is passionate about young people's mental health and wellbeing to join us in the delivery of high quality and effective CAMHS interventions.

This role requires a post-graduate qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g., HCPC) and have experience in delivering Psychological Therapies in a CAMHS setting. Newly qualified psychologists are encouraged to apply.

Main duties of the job

This role requires a post-graduate qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g., HCPC) and have experience in delivering Psychological Therapies in a CAMHS setting. Newly qualified psychologists are encouraged to apply.

The post holder will support both their peers and team lead and be an effective team member whilst using their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies as we embed a psychologically informed model of practice within the service.

The post holder will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior psychologist and will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings, of cases on their caseload. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and partnership agencies as we promote trauma informed and culturally informed practices within the service.

About us

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of �4,313 and a maximum payment of �5,436 per annum pro rata).

Our service is committed to professional development. We persistently encourage our clinicians to broaden their skills. Recent CPD organised for our team members include: DBT skills, TF-CBT, ADOS-2, and ACAMH conferences. Our team also has strong links with the Trust Research and Development department. We are always looking for opportunities to become involved in research. We recently took part in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial delivering Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Complex PTSD. Clinical research and audit, teaching and specialist interests are actively encouraged as part of continuous professional development (e.g. training in specialist psychological interventions). We have regular therapist meetings where we meet to discuss new research and innovations and consider how we can implement these in our service. This role is suited to a candidate who is keen on service development, as well as managing a clinical caseload.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We hold the development of people within our department as crucial to delivering key targets for the service and the Trust. Our team has excellent links with Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training courses (Institute of Psychiatry, University College London and University of Essex) and the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology training course at City University. We offer clinical placements to Trainee Clinical Psychologists. Furthermore, our team consists of trained Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) and our team has existing links with CWP training courses for supervisor training.

Redbridge EWMHS/CAMHS is an exciting place to work, where change and creativity are welcomed. Staff wellbeing is paramount to our team, and we aim to prioritise this within the workplace. We take pride in being welcoming and positive, with childrens wellbeing centred at the heart of our practice. We have a wellbeing Ambassador within the team that promotes our participation in wellbeing activities.

We have safe easy access to free on-site parking, good train and bus links and access via Crossrail when completed.

Values in their day-to-day work. These are the 5Ps:

• Putting people first
• Prioritising quality
• Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible independence, opportunity, and choice

This post involves assessing and treating children and young people who present with moderate to severe mental health difficulties in a community CAMHS setting. The successful candidate will primarily work within the Emotional Difficulties pathway, seeing children and young people presenting with a range of difficulties including (but not limited to), anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, self-harm, and emotion regulation difficulties. There is also scope for working across the pathways in our service (Neurodevelopmental and Conduct), depending on experience. The post holder will be given the opportunity to clinically supervise junior members of the team, including assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists (dependent on years of post-qualification experience).

Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical/ Counselling Psychology
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT)

Desirable

• Additional training in specific therapeutic modality

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in children and mental health setting.
• Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions. Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs. (I.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma).
• Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
• Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.

Skills

Essential

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside EWMHS

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

The Grove

Grove Road

Chadwell Heath

RM6 4XH

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