The South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to appoint a Band 8b psychologist to join the new Children & Young People's Gender Service (London).

This is an exciting new blended role that will work within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and an allocated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The CAMHS elementof this role will ideally be a good fit with the Children and Young People'sGender Service and the experience, skills, and preference of the applicant. Please specify in your supporting information your preferred choice. The post will be full time for 3 years (fixed term contract).

This post reflects the Cass Review recommendation that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services to embed the care of childrenandyoung people with gender-related distress within a broader childand adolescent health context.

Practitioner Health and Educational Psychologists will also be considered for this role if they are able to demonstrate significant experience within a children and young people's mental health setting and document the equivalent level of training in an appropriate therapeutic model, either as a core part of training, additional qualification, or substantial number of short courses.

Main duties of the job

The Children and Young People's Gender Serviceprovides assessment and therapeutic support for children and young people that are gender questioning or experiencing gender incongruence. Many of these young people will have co-morbid difficulties including developmental disorders, trauma, low mood and family conflict.

The post holder will work 0.5 wte within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and 0.5wte within an agreed CAMHS - to develop, coordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service across both areas

About us

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the country. We aim to utilise the skills, experience, and commitment of our clinicians to provide first class, effective, safe, and innovative care in community Borough based and National and Specialist Inpatient, Outpatient and Day patient multidisciplinary teams.

The Children and Young People's Gender Service (London) is being delivered by a partnership of Evelina London Children's Hospital (part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust), Great Ormond Street Hospital and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and an agreed CAMHS to

• provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people including trauma, self-harm and neurodevelopmental disorders
• To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically informed framework for both services
• take an active role in supervision teaching, training and research

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent), or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration.
• Additional training in a specialised area of psychological (e.g. CBT, DBT, neurodevelopmental assessment) practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma
• Completed training course in clinical supervision
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature including gender identity.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of neurodevelopmental needs of a complex nature.
• Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training
• Experience of providing teaching and training to psychologists or other professional groups.
• Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects
• Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for complex mental health needs relevant to gender incongruence
• Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for relevant treatments
• Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders
• Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.

Skills

Essential

• To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences.
• To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ.
• To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and to organise meetings such as CPAs and case reviews, and joint activities with staff of partner agencies.
• To be expert in the skilled administration of psychometric tests, including skilled manipulation of test materials and to be able to supervise others in administration of psychometric tests
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
• Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Denmark Hill

Greater London

SE58AB

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