Job summary
Clinical Team Manager
Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS CLA (Children Looked After) Service
8b permanent post - 4 sessions
An opportunity has arisen in Hammersmith and Fulham CLA (Children Looked After Service) CAMHS, for a permanent skilled and experienced Clinical Team Manager. We offer excellent training, support and development opportunities.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Professional to take a strategic lead in maintaining and further developing the team's provision. The successful candidate will fulfil this role in liaison with all key stakeholders. The role includes providing consultation to social workers, supervision, being involved in recruitment, as well as some clinical work.
The service is embedded within the multiagency team. The successful candidate will be part of the local senior management structures within CAMHS, and welcomed as a senior member of a growing psychology local team, and tri-borough team, including linking with colleagues who work within trauma informed models with children who are looked after in other CAMHS boroughs of West London NHS Trust.
The job is based in Hammersmith, an inner city area with excellent transport links and facilities.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide operational management and clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary LAC CAMHS Team Hammersmith and Fulham as well as playing a key role in the development of the service to most effectively meet the mental health needs of looked after children, young people and families in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The post holder will have a clearly defined caseload to which they will provide evidence based assessments, consultations and interventions, and they will work with other clinicians and partner agencies in a collaborative way to provide emotional wellbeing and mental health support to children, young people and families.
The needs of looked after children and young people and families will be at the centre of thinking about the service, and you will work together with service users and colleagues to ensure that the service best meets the needs of its population. Hammersmith & Fulham is a culturally diverse borough and you will be involved in ensuring that the service is accessible and effective.
You will receive regular supervision and line management from the relevant Head of Discipline. There are excellent opportunities for professional development.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council
- Post-qualification training in supervision / specialist application of formal therapy models.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practi
- Training in CBT
Experience
Essential
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of multi-agency working.
- Significant experience of delivering professional, clinical and management supervision to psychologists.
- Experience of and commitment to service development.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge & Skills
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.
- 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 practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups (e.g. looked after children, learning disabilities, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to children who have special educational needs and neurodevelopmental conditions.
Other Requirements
Essential
- 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.
- Commitment to provide support to children, their families/carers and linked professionals and maintain high levels of aspiration for the population referred to the service.
- Commitment to working flexibly and collaboratively with team colleagues and to support innovative ways of working.
- To approach clients with empathy and adaptability and to be open to development of new approaches to work with clients.
- 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) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council
- Post-qualification training in supervision / specialist application of formal therapy models.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practi
- Training in CBT
Experience
Essential
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of multi-agency working.
- Significant experience of delivering professional, clinical and management supervision to psychologists.
- Experience of and commitment to service development.
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge & Skills
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.
- 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 practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC.
- Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups (e.g. looked after children, learning disabilities, neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to children who have special educational needs and neurodevelopmental conditions.
Other Requirements
Essential
- 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.
- Commitment to provide support to children, their families/carers and linked professionals and maintain high levels of aspiration for the population referred to the service.
- Commitment to working flexibly and collaboratively with team colleagues and to support innovative ways of working.
- To approach clients with empathy and adaptability and to be open to development of new approaches to work with clients.
- 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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
