This exciting Band 8a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychology full time post sits within the multi-disciplinary SCAAND-Neuropsychiatry team, which provides specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health services for young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder, and associated mental health and developmental conditions. We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations, and support continuing professional development for our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post has a balanced combination of multi-disciplinary assessment work (social communication assessment, cognitive and neuropsychological testing, young person and parent interviews) and intervention cases. Intervention is varied, ranging from direct work with young people with a range of presentations and needs, work with their parents or carers and joint work with other disciplines such as consultations to the local network. Given the complex nature of presenting difficulties seen in our service, time is made for complex formulation meetings, case discussions and regular treating team review meetings.

As a specialist CAMHS service, keyworker duties including overseeing good clinical governance (ensuring timely outcome measurement and clinical record keeping) and being a key point of contact for young people, families and local services. There are many opportunities for leadership experience, including supervision of more junior staff, service development projects and holding responsibility for some key clinical governance tasks.

About us

About our location:

The Michael Rutter Centre is located on the Maudsley hospital sit and is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role the default working pattern tends to be Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, with flexibility to adjust working patterns. Please note that service needs may also require different working patterns (see Job Description).

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a highly specialist psychology service to the National Specialist CAMHS Neuropsychiatry Team and the wider SCAAND service, including specialist assessment, treatment, consultation, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in neurodevelopment and associated mental health needs in young people.

To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.

To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent Counselling psychologist
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC. (A/I)

Desirable

• To have completed training in autism specific assessments (e.g. ADOS-2, ADI-R. (A/I)

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in child and adolescent neurodevelopmental CAMHS. (A/I)
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in children and adolescence with neurodevelopmental conditions (A/I)

Understanding and Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders and associated neurodevelopmental conditions (including intellectual disability) and co-morbid mental health disorders. (A/I)
• Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics with children and young people and knowledge of how this applies to young people with autism spectrum disorders and associated neurodevelopmental conditions (A/I)

Skills

Essential

• To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources. (A/I)
• To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials. (A/I)
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups (A/I)

Desirable

• Experience in providing consultation to other professionals regarding children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions. (A/I)

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I)

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Michael Rutter Centre

DeCrespigny Park

London

SE5 8AZ

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