Job summary
We are excited to be able to recruit a suitably qualified Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to the Haringey Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The successful applicant will be joining an extremely supportive, committed, and dynamic service serving a diverse and vibrant community of children and families.
The CAMHS generic team provides specialist mental health services for children and their families in Haringey. The team is based at St Ann's Hospital. The team consists of Clinical Psychologists, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, specialist Speech and Language Therapists, creative therapists, CAMHS practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists and Systemic Family Therapists. The team work closely with colleagues from children's social care, schools and colleges, youth offending services, the Child Development Centre, the Royal Free eating disorder service, the Tavistock Lifespan, CAMHS and LAC teams, third sector providers, Open Door, and adult mental health. The team is co-located with other CAMHS teams including CAMHS-LD, Adolescent Outreach (AOT), CAMHS Access and Trailblazer. The service is a provider of training placements across disciplines including trainee clinical psychologists.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will undertake direct clinical work in the CAMHS generic team, working across both the emotional and neurodevelopmental care pathways. They will contribute to the multi-disciplinary team providing specialist assessment, therapy, consultation, training and supervision as required. They will be a senior member of clinical staff providing specialist knowledge and experience to the team, specifically to support work with complex presentations and circumstances including mental health in the context neurodevelopmental disorder and complex developmental trauma. We're looking for a candidate with experience of working systemically across professional networks and contributing to management of risk. As a senior clinician they will be involved in supporting the development of less experienced staff and contributing to the development of care pathways; shaping the offer and innovating to meet the need of the client group and service objectives.
About us
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Haringey CAMHS teams are part of the CYP-IAPT project funded by NHS England which aims to improve quality and effectiveness of services through the routine use of clinical outcome measures and the development of service-user involvement projects. The service is in the process of adopting the principles of the Thrive model incorporating initiatives to increase resilience and early intervention in schools and the community through the Trailblazer project. It is benefitting from the interest and investment brought by this initiative as well as that of the Learning Disability and Autism Strategy (formally transforming care) agenda.
Haringey CAMHS is provided by BEH-MHT and is part of the newly formed North Central London mental health partnership across the London boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
The London Borough of Haringey covers Tottenham, Wood Green, Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Highgate is situated between the inner-city areas of Hackney and Islington to the south and more suburban areas of Enfield and Barnet to the north and west. The western part of the Trust is relatively affluent, the eastern part being more typical of an inner city area.
The population of approximately 220,000 is the most ethnically and culturally diverse in England and Wales with 44% of the boroughs residents coming from a black or ethnic minority background. Haringey is currently experiencing a period of rapid change and regeneration. This has been stimulated by both national and local regeneration projects and initiatives.
We welcome candidates looking for part-time positions/jobs shares as well as those looking for full time employment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Haringey CAMHS teams are part of the CYP-IAPT project funded by NHS England which aims to improve quality and effectiveness of services through the routine use of clinical outcome measures and the development of service-user involvement projects. The service is in the process of adopting the principles of the Thrive model incorporating initiatives to increase resilience and early intervention in schools and the community through the Trailblazer project. It is benefitting from the interest and investment brought by this initiative as well as that of the Learning Disability and Autism Strategy (formally transforming care) agenda.
Haringey CAMHS is provided by BEH-MHT and is part of the newly formed North Central London mental health partnership across the London boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
The London Borough of Haringey covers Tottenham, Wood Green, Hornsey, Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Highgate is situated between the inner-city areas of Hackney and Islington to the south and more suburban areas of Enfield and Barnet to the north and west. The western part of the Trust is relatively affluent, the eastern part being more typical of an inner city area.
The population of approximately 220,000 is the most ethnically and culturally diverse in England and Wales with 44% of the boroughs residents coming from a black or ethnic minority background. Haringey is currently experiencing a period of rapid change and regeneration. This has been stimulated by both national and local regeneration projects and initiatives.
We welcome candidates looking for part-time positions/jobs shares as well as those looking for full time employment.
Person Specification
Education and qualification
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Professional registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Training in clinical supervision for doctoral clinical psychology trainees and other psychologists. Post-doctoral training in one or more relevant specialist areas of psychological practice. Quality improvement training.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient 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.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
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. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as required for professional registration with the HCPC. Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with clients and indirectly via supervision of other staff. Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression. Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets. Ability to manage own caseload and time. Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RiO, ICAN) and database/statistical applications (e.g. Excel, SPSS). 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.
Person Specification
Education and qualification
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Professional registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Training in clinical supervision for doctoral clinical psychology trainees and other psychologists. Post-doctoral training in one or more relevant specialist areas of psychological practice. Quality improvement training.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient 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.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
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. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology. Evidence of continuing professional development as required for professional registration with the HCPC. Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with clients and indirectly via supervision of other staff. Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression. Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets. Ability to manage own caseload and time. Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RiO, ICAN) and database/statistical applications (e.g. Excel, SPSS). 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.
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).
