We are looking for a highly skilled and committed Clinical Psychologist to join the NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team (Tier 4). This post will be based at St Ann's Hospital delivering specialist home treatment service for children and adolescents (12-18 years) across the NCL's five boroughs of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington.

NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team is an innovative project pioneering delivery of highly intensive multidisciplinary community care to young people within the NCL area. Objectives of this team are to providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way, such as by preventing admissions, or to shorten the length of inpatient admissions by providing a pathway for discharge to home. The team is multi-disciplinary and offers a therapeutic and risk management brief intervention (up to 12 weeks). This post is an exciting opportunity not only to utilise a range of clinical skills while working with young people and complex systems, but also to be actively involved in team development.

Main duties of the job

To undertake initial assessments as appropriate, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as

appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis' or emergency.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. These will include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

To make skilled evaluations to employ research based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families and carers in the context of the professional and wider social systems.

To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for Individuals, carers, families and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, informed by different exploratory models. And maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 individuals, family

or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment

and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based

care plans, including communication with the referral agent and others involved in

care.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other

professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment

plan.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to

provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment

and risk management.

To communicate and give feedback in a skilled and sensitive manner, information

concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their

care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multidisciplinary care.

To provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals

within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review

meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with the HCPC as a clinical psychologist.

Desirable

• Additional post-doctoral training in evidencebased therapies e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic therapy and EMDR. Additional training in assessment approaches e.g. ADOS, 3DI

Skills

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents with mental health difficulties and learning difficulties across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years.

Desirable

• Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
• Experience of working within a specialist Tier 4 CAMHS service
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working in the NHS.

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Road, Tottenham, London, N15 3TH

St Ann's Road, Tottenham, London, N15 3TH

Haringey

N15 3TH

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