The post holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. clinical psychologist, family therapist, child, and adolescent psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, AFT, ACP).

The post-holder will provide clinical interventions and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in CYPMHS. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and the extensive clinical supervision of assistant psychologists throughout the CYPMHS locality teams.

They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the CYPMHS team.

The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the CYPMHS team.

The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term CYPMHS input and specialist psychological treatments.

They will be responsible for all specialist psychological assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CYPMHS.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.

Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists across the locality teams in CYPMHS.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents, and families.

To undertake a range of clinical work, assessment work and parenting support.

To contribute to audit and research.

To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.

To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust's policies and procedures.

About us

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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Please note if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification, we encourage you to still apply and development needs can be discussed at the interview.

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential

Desirable

Measurement

Putting people first

Prioritising quality

Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve

Being professional and honest

Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity, and choice

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Qualifications

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NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

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Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child, and adolescent psychotherapy)

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To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g.

HCPC, AFT, ACP)

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Experience

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Desirable

Measurement

Experience of working with difficult, disturbed, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions

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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)

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Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems

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Experience of using observation (e.g. In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children

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Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team

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Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person

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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

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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

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Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies

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Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts

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Knowledge

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An awareness of NHS priorities

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High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS

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Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies

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Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines

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Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety

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Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings

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Knowledge of electronic record systems, e.g. Rio

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Skills

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Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

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Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress

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Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation

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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 CAMHS

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Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor

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Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger as relevant

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Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures, and guidelines

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Ability to plan and organise own workload and time

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Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work

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Other

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To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

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To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics

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To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trusts policies and procedures

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Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings

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Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work

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If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Professional Registration

Desirable

• Additional treatment modalities

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• Experience with Supervision

Desirable

• Experience within Leadership

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Essential

• Experience offering treatment

Desirable

• Awareness of treatment modalities

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Medway Young Persons Wellbeing Service, 1 The Courtyard

Campus Way

Gillingham

ME80NZ

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