Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Psychologists with experience of working with young people and their families to work at Hammersmith & Fulham CAMHS. This is an integrated post across the Intensive Therapeutic Behaviour Support Service (ITBSS, 0.6 WTE) and Neurodevelopmental Disorder and Learning Disability team (NDLD, 0.4 WTE) to promote integration and collaboration between the two teams within H&F CAMHS.
The post-holder will join a well-established experienced large and thriving NDLD multi-disciplinary team (MDT). They will be provided with high-quality clinical psychology supervision from a highly specialist clinical psychologist. The ITBSS & NDLD team is embedded within the Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS Service, which also consists of the Adolescent Team, Children and Families team and the Tier 2 Community CAMHS team. The H&F CAMHS service is a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based at 48 Glenthorne Road, London W6 0LS. Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS is part of the West London NHS Trust CAMHS and Developmental Service Line which also covers services in Ealing and Hounslow.
In addition, the post-holder will join the thriving psychology team based within CAMHS. We are looking for a skilled, hard-working and enthusiastic psychologist who is passionate about delivering high-quality and effective services to children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will offer services to children and young people with severe LD and/or ASD and their families who are referred to the Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS ITBSS service. ITBSS is a psychology-led community-based service. The post-holder will deliver specialist assessments and interventions to these children with high levels of complex needs, their families, the schools they attend, social workers and other agencies that are also involved in their care. They will work alongside other MDT members and multi-agency colleagues such as social workers and education colleagues to deliver a high-quality service to children with complex needs and their families. The post-holder will be required to respond flexibly to the needs of the client group and assess in different settings including specialist schools and family homes, in the CAMHS clinic, and within social care and community settings and carry out home and school visits as appropriate.
The post-holder will also offer clinical supervision and line management to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists according to service needs at any one point. They will also contribute to clinical governance and service development.
Flexible working is available. All staff are equipped for remote working with clients and colleagues.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see our Candidate information pack for a comprehensive job description and person specification for this role.
If you have any enquiries about the post, please do get in touch with Serena Bua, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (line manager and supervisor for this post) via Serena.Bua@westlondon.nhs.uk or 07709 718554.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see our Candidate information pack for a comprehensive job description and person specification for this role.
If you have any enquiries about the post, please do get in touch with Serena Bua, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (line manager and supervisor for this post) via Serena.Bua@westlondon.nhs.uk or 07709 718554.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas.
- Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical / Counselling) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
- Clinical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, 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.
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working with other agencies including education and social care.
- Experience of assessment and intervention around Neurodiversity
- Experience of working with children/young people and their families with special educational needs, neurodevelopmental difficulties, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, and co-morbid mental health difficulties.
- Experience of leadership, team and service development.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups including children with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health difficulties, adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children with challenging behaviour, 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.
Other Requirements
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas.
- Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical / Counselling) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
- Clinical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, 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.
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working with other agencies including education and social care.
- Experience of assessment and intervention around Neurodiversity
- Experience of working with children/young people and their families with special educational needs, neurodevelopmental difficulties, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, and co-morbid mental health difficulties.
- Experience of leadership, team and service development.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups including children with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health difficulties, adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children with challenging behaviour, 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.
Other Requirements
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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).
