An opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced 8a Clinical Psychologist to join the Adolescent Outreach Team in Haringey CAMHS, for a 12-month fixed term period, which may become substantive. The successful applicant will be joining an extremely supportive, committed and dynamic service.

We welcome candidates looking for part-time positions/jobs shares as well as those looking for full time employment.

Main duties of the job

Haringey Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) is a multidisciplinary, community- based service working with young people from 12 to 18 years of age, where there are significant concerns about a young person's mental health. Referrals to the service include adolescents presenting with severe emotional dysregulation difficulties and self- harm, depression and emerging psychosis or psychotic illness. The team offer a range of interventions to young people and their families, in the clinic, and when required in family homes, or the community, aimed at containing and managing risk and supporting recovery.

The successful applicant will contribute to the range of clinical work offered by the AOT team, providing specialist assessment, psychological therapy, care co-ordination, consultation, training and supervision as appropriate. You will work alongside another Clinical Psychologist in AOT and meet regularly with colleagues in the Clinical Psychology discipline who work across Haringey CAMHS in other teams.

Haringey CAMHS teams are part of the CYP-IAPT project funded by NHS England which aims to improve quality and effectiveness of services through the routine use of clinical outcome measures and the development of service-user involvement projects.

About us

At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Community and Mental Health Trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.

The Trust's values are:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Being Positive
• Working together

By coming to work at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust you will be joining a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.

Job description Job responsibilities

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Professional registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient.
• 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.
• Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of working in multi-agency contexts.

Person Specification Education & Qualifications Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Professional registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.

Desirable

• Training in clinical supervision for doctoral clinical psychology trainees and other psychologists.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more relevant specialist areas of psychological practice.
• Quality improvement training.

Experience & Knowledge Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient
• 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.
• Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of working in multi-agency contexts.
• Experience of working in acute/crisis setting.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of working in a CAMHS setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.

Skills & Abilities 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.
• 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 required for professional registration with the HCPC.

Desirable

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Competence in the use of Rio.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Highly competent verbal and non-verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to maintain compassion and curiosity in challenging circumstances, e.g. in the face of strong opinions, hostile attitudes, despair and distress.
• Positive attitude to change and innovation.
• Supportive of colleagues.
• Creativity.

Other Requirements Essential

• A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organization.

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