Job overview

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

We need a candidate with a 'can do' and flexible attitude so that they can successfully integrate and contribute to our dynamic service. They will have experience of working with children and young people, offering psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions within a community CAMHS service or Tier 4 CAMHS setting.

They will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. They will need to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The post holder will receive supervision in line with BPS guidelines and will have access to the free Psychology CPD programme running in the Trust.

They will be expected to provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists, as required.

They will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.

Please contact Dr Shona Lavey-Khan Clinical Psychologist and Lead Psychologist for CAMHS Risk Pathway and or Christopher Ashogba CAHMS HTT Team manager for further information

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.

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 engage young people and their families with evidence based psychological assessment and treatment, which is bespoke and formulation driven.

To work within a multi-disciplinary team and support team formulation. To contribute to care plans which mitigate risk and improve outcomes for young people.

To engage in 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. This may 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 clients care.

To provide an understanding of best practice and the evidence base in relation to working with this client group.

To engage in consultation, teaching and training as appropriate. To liaise with colleagues across the systems around young people.

To support with team development on an individual and system wide level, and to build relationships with related teams.

To provide supervision for more junior psychology colleagues, as appropriate.

To engage in regular CPD to keep your knowledge up to date, within the trust's CPD offer.

To embody Compassionate Leadership

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 evidence-based therapies e.g. CBT, DBT, systemic therapy and EMDR.

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

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc). High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Hospital

Haringey

N153TH

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