Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative band 8a clinician to work with young people and families in the borough of Merton who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of the CAMHS provision provided into Merton Youth Justice Service (YJS) & Contextual Safeguarding Team.
This role is a secondment for 5 months at 1.0wte.
The postholder will be joining a passionate team in an established and valued role which will contribute to the development and delivery of services that seek to transform mental health delivery for marginalized young people involved in or at risk of offending.
The service is informed by AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment), trauma-informed, systemic and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be working within a multi-disciplinary context to deliver creative and adapted evidence-based care, including direct psychological assessment and treatment to young people and families. This would include cases where there are risks of offending and contextual harm such as child criminal exploitation. These are often complex cases that require engagement and support from several agencies and provide opportunities for creative multi-agency joint working.
Alongside direct clinical work, there will be opportunities to provide leadership, consultancy, and training to partner agencies such as Pupil Referral Units, the wider Youth Justice & Contextual Safeguarding Team, Children's Social Care and Police to embed psychological and trauma informed care. There will also be opportunities to contribute to policy work, wider service development, and become involved in co-produced projects within the local authority including a psychology-led team formulation pathway for complex cases.
The postholder will also provide clinical supervision to band 7 clinicians within the Youth Justice Service and adjacent teams (Pupil Referral Units).
Candidates will be committed to partnership working, hold excellent communication, engagement and interpersonal skills, and have experience of working with marginalised young people in Youth Justice and/or Social care contexts.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our location:
This post will be based at Merton Civic Centre
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide highly specialist clinical/forensic psychology services to children, young people and their families / carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people and families on the caseload;
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care.
To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
To work with the team manager and clinical lead to lead the work of a particular team or service area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide highly specialist clinical/forensic psychology services to children, young people and their families / carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people and families on the caseload;
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care.
To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
To work with the team manager and clinical lead to lead the work of a particular team or service area.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist (or equivalent) registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees
Desirable
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
- Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality
- Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy
Experience
Essential
- Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
- Consolidated 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.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
- Experience of working with children and families involved in the justice system and/or social care
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of service development or of a leadership role
- Experience of working within a Youth Justice CAMH service
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist (or equivalent) registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees
Desirable
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
- Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality
- Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy
Experience
Essential
- Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
- Consolidated 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.
- Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
- Experience of working with children and families involved in the justice system and/or social care
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of service development or of a leadership role
- Experience of working within a Youth Justice CAMH service
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).
