Job summary

Wandsworth T3 CAMHS serves a diverse London borough of young people and families present with a variety of complex needs such as low mood, anxiety-based disorders including OCD, trauma, and difficulties with emotional regulation.

We are seeking 3 x Clinical psychologist/Counselling psychology who are passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested in wider service development initiatives and being part of the Multi-disciplinary team within Wandsworth Tier 3 CAMHS. We encourage applications from newly qualified and recently qualified clinical Psychologist/counselling psychologist.

This role is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the following:

• Candidates need to be qualified Clinical/Counselling psychologists (or about to qualify) and registered with the Health & Care Professions Council or clearly state in their application how they are planning to achieve this registration.
• Ability and experience of clinical supervision
• Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community.
• The ability to efficiently manage a caseload.
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding.
• The ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions including CBT.

There will also be opportunity for agile working, including options for regular home working.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data

To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients

To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals

To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.

To monitor progress during the course of interventions

To provide clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists/Trainee Clinical Psychologists

To effectively synthesise information within MDT settings to develop the required actions.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

For this role, we offer leadership training and development opportunities. We also have a trust-wide plan for ongoing CPD for psychology and psychotherapy staff, including upcoming opportunities for CPD in areas such as Trauma Informed Care, Cognitive Therapies, DBT and EMDR.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our �150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To provide specialist assessments, including cognitive assessments, of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.

To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.

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 and the family.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers

To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.

To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.

To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.

To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior colleagues.

To gain additional experience and skills relevant to the profession and/or the service (as agreed with the responsible professional and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS Directorates common expectations for P&P staff.

To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training, and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

If required, to provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service Development

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services (as directed), through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

To contribute to a culture that is therapeutic, productive, accessible, inclusive, and flexible to meet the needs of the local population.

Research and Service Evaluation

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

Other

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).

To contribute to and commit to undertaking an annual professional development review (PADR).

To undertake personal and professional development as identified in the Personal development Plan (PDP) as required by the service and set out in the job plan.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:

• Current Mental Health Legislation
• The Childrens Act (1989)
• Trust, London Borough and panLondon child protection procedures.

• Local and national developments in SWLStG CAMHS

• Risk Assessment and Management
• Clinical Governance
• Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
• Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector

Training and Development

To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.

To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.

To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• oQualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist.
• oPost-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.

Desirable

• oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach

Experience

Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
• oExperience of multi-disciplinary team working
• oExperience of inter-agency working
• oExperience of safeguarding and Child Protection

Desirable

• oExperience of leading case reviews
• oExperience of working in the NHS
• oExperience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups

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