Job summary
Islington CAMHS is a multi-disciplinary service providing a child and family mental health service to the population of Islington across the 0-18 years age range. It is an innovative service, integrated with local authority teams, schools and early years settings across the borough. The service provides a range of community based, multi-disciplinary interventions and specialist treatments and consultation and training to partner agencies. The service is part of the Children and Young People's IAPT initiative.
One post will be based full-time in the Adolescent Assessment and Outreach Team. The second post will be split across various CAMHS teams, including CAMHS in Schools, CAMHS in New River College, Islington Trauma Informed Practice and Youth Justice Service.
Main duties of the job
1) To be responsible for keeping screening/outcome measures database updated
2) To hold a small caseload and deliver evidence-based assessments, interventions and complete administrative tasks as required
3) To conduct observations of referred children and young people to support assessments.
4) To support initial assessment appointments or specific pieces of clinical work
5) To undertake various tasks to assist service/teams' work.
6) Mentoring and co-ordinating the work of undergraduate placement students.
7) To support the services' work to embed the meaningful use of outcome measures and feedback tools.
8) To support the development and maintenance of a directory of services in Islington and raise awareness of these services to the team
9) Attending and contributing to the team's multidisciplinary case discussions
10) To participate, undertake and/or lead on various projects
11) Seek and use advice and support from senior clinicians to ensure client safety and meet their needs.
12) Attend training as required
About us
We want our staff to feel safe, supported and included within Whittington Children and Young People's Mental Health Services. We want to value the things that make us unique, including all protected characteristics. Therefore, we wish to foster a positive culture which will allow all staff to flourish and ensure that everyone is valued and respected. We are working towards a non-defensive position that recognises the biases held within large organisations.
This requires commitment, support and action from everyone at all levels of the organisation to change cultures and attitudes. We hope that this positive culture will promote a more accessible and inclusive service for staff, children, young people, families, carers and partner stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification attached.
One post will be based full-time in the Adolescent Assessment and Outreach Team. The second post will be split across various CAMHS teams, including CAMHS in Schools, CAMHS in New River College, Islington Trauma Informed Practice and Youth Justice Service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification attached.
One post will be based full-time in the Adolescent Assessment and Outreach Team. The second post will be split across various CAMHS teams, including CAMHS in Schools, CAMHS in New River College, Islington Trauma Informed Practice and Youth Justice Service.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology (for all assistant psychologist posts).
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of mental health practice, psychology, and/or research design and analysis.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- High level of communication skills (written and verbal).
- Excellent typing and IT skills and high level of expertise using Microsoft programmes, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Ability to type own notes on the electronic patient records
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and mental health colleagues and multi-agency colleagues such as education staff.
- An ability to apply psychological ways of thinking to a mental health, social and education context.
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- A high level of organisational skills, the ability to manage projects autonomously, the ability to be self-motivated and resilient.
- The ability to seek and use advice, support and supervision from senior clinicians appropriately to ensure client safety and meet their needs.
Desirable
- Quantitative and qualitative research skills and experience.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of children and young people's mental health and how it may present.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and an ability to incorporate cultural sensitivity and responsiveness to your work with colleagues and clients.
Desirable
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, experience of working with children and/or young people, experience of working in a research related role in the field of mental health/psychology.
- Experience of implementing outcomes studies/service evaluations in mental health services.
- Experience of service user participation and coproduction, e.g. collecting service user feedback.
- Experience of carrying out psychometric assessments with children and young people.
- Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist in NHS mental health services.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology (for all assistant psychologist posts).
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of mental health practice, psychology, and/or research design and analysis.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- High level of communication skills (written and verbal).
- Excellent typing and IT skills and high level of expertise using Microsoft programmes, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Ability to type own notes on the electronic patient records
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and mental health colleagues and multi-agency colleagues such as education staff.
- An ability to apply psychological ways of thinking to a mental health, social and education context.
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- A high level of organisational skills, the ability to manage projects autonomously, the ability to be self-motivated and resilient.
- The ability to seek and use advice, support and supervision from senior clinicians appropriately to ensure client safety and meet their needs.
Desirable
- Quantitative and qualitative research skills and experience.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of children and young people's mental health and how it may present.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and an ability to incorporate cultural sensitivity and responsiveness to your work with colleagues and clients.
Desirable
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, experience of working with children and/or young people, experience of working in a research related role in the field of mental health/psychology.
- Experience of implementing outcomes studies/service evaluations in mental health services.
- Experience of service user participation and coproduction, e.g. collecting service user feedback.
- Experience of carrying out psychometric assessments with children and young people.
- Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist in NHS mental health services.
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).
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).
