Job summary
Our mission is to create Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (Islington Community CAMHS, Simmons House and Paediatric Mental Health) within Whittington Health Trust that embrace diversity and foster inclusivity at all levels. We strive to empower and support our staff and service users to achieve wellbeing.
We are looking for an 8a Senior Clinician with some experience of management, and leadership alongside clinical experience of working with adults with common mental health presentation. Experience with working with children with common behavioural and emotional difficulties in the context of parental mental health will be advantageous.
Growing Together is a relatively new mental health service which is a partnership between Islington Adult IAPT and CAMHS. Growing Together provides psychological interventions to both parents and children aged 1-5 experiencing emotional distress and difficulties in relationships.
The post-holder will be part of the management and leadership team in Growing Together. They will be expected to take a lead in monitoring clinical outcomes and the delivery of the team's KPIs and to contribute to the annual report. They will provide line management and clinical supervision to Band 7 staff and other junior members of the team.
Main duties of the job
In addition to team leadership, the post holder will offer psychological assessments and interventions to parents with range of common mental health presentations (including depression, anxiety, and emotional regulation difficulties) and their children aged between 1-5 presenting with common young childhood difficulties (including difficulties with behaviour, feeding, toileting, separating, attachment, etc.). They will see clients in community settings, e.g. Children's Centres, Health Centres and client's homes. A range of evidence based interventions will be offered by the clinician from at least one therapeutic modality including CBT , Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, and family work. Training for group work that the team undertakes will be provided. For the suitable candidate support will also be offered to develop skills in working with young children if required.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post involves doing outreach work in the community and linking with partnership agencies to provide consultation and training. The clinician will link to some specific Childrens Centres and need to build positive relationships with staff to facilitate joint working. This post would suit someone dynamic, confident, flexible and tenacious with interest in the mental health of adults as parents and the impact of their emotional difficulties on their childrens wellbeing and development.
We especially welcome applications from candidates with Adult mental health experience at a senior level within an IAPT service and an interest in developing expertise in working with young children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post involves doing outreach work in the community and linking with partnership agencies to provide consultation and training. The clinician will link to some specific Childrens Centres and need to build positive relationships with staff to facilitate joint working. This post would suit someone dynamic, confident, flexible and tenacious with interest in the mental health of adults as parents and the impact of their emotional difficulties on their childrens wellbeing and development.
We especially welcome applications from candidates with Adult mental health experience at a senior level within an IAPT service and an interest in developing expertise in working with young children.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical/ Counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP or other recognised professional registering body OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in CBT and registration with the BABCP.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for Adult Mental health including assessment and evidence based therapies for depression, anxiety and emotional regulation difficulties.
- Skills in the use of methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children under five years of age, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal and mental health factors for adults and children under five years of age and their families.
- oWorking autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
- oKnowledge and skills in a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health.
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, 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
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Ability to manage clinical staff on band 7 and band 4.
- Ability to type own notes /enter data to Adult and Child electronic patient records such as RIO and Iaptus.
Desirable
- Ability to chair team meetings and support the CAMHS Early Years Service Managers in general team tasks as required.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.
- Substantial experience of multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment.
- Substantial experience of supervision of clinical staff
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring clinical outcomes.
- Experience of contributing to service activity reports.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical/ Counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP or other recognised professional registering body OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in CBT and registration with the BABCP.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for Adult Mental health including assessment and evidence based therapies for depression, anxiety and emotional regulation difficulties.
- Skills in the use of methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children under five years of age, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal and mental health factors for adults and children under five years of age and their families.
- oWorking autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
- oKnowledge and skills in a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health.
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication, 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
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Ability to manage clinical staff on band 7 and band 4.
- Ability to type own notes /enter data to Adult and Child electronic patient records such as RIO and Iaptus.
Desirable
- Ability to chair team meetings and support the CAMHS Early Years Service Managers in general team tasks as required.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.
- Substantial experience of multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment.
- Substantial experience of supervision of clinical staff
- Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Experience of monitoring clinical outcomes.
- Experience of contributing to service activity reports.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
