Job summary
This is unique opportunity to contribute to setting up and delivering an innovative pilot for 0-25 year olds at risk of or affected by youth violence. This role is part of the North Central London Vanguard commissioned by NHS England to develop and mobilise a model of care for children and young people involved in or at risk of serious youth violence.
Main duties of the job
The service adopts a holistic and integrated approach which draws largely on community psychology, narrative and attachment based principles. The post holder will hold a central role in providing assessments and adapted evidence based psychological interventions for young people in community-based settings.
The role involves working closely with the team, families and multi-agency professionals to improve emotional and holistic well-being for children and young people. Alongside individual clinical work, the service works across multiple levels, seeking to shift how the wider system perceives and works with young people, hoping to address inequalities to create sustainable change. The postholder will have opportunities to offer consultation to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals and carers within the young people's network. The postholder will contribute to providing clinical leadership across the service, working closely with all team members in ensuring the delivery of highly innovative and adaptive evidence-based care. There will be opportunities to work alongside young people with lived experience to coproduce creative activities and social action projects. Embracing new ways of working will be key, as the model constantly evolves to respond to the needs and aspirations of young people it serves.
About us
BEH is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. This post will sit in the community arm of the Specialist Services Division of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust. The Specialist Services Division also incorporates the North London Forensic Service for a wide catchment area, namely Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, Camden & Islington. The psychological therapies provision covers a wide spectrum of services including admission and intervention inpatient care in both medium and low secure services, specialist outreach services, consultation with probation services and psychological input to specialist prison programmes. The service inputs to several large prisons in the London area, works with Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police units and provides diversion services from local courts. The service offers consultation and liaison and diversion in Threat Assessment services including FTAC, STAC and CTVSH. The department has strong links with psychology training courses, both clinical and forensic, providing regular placements to a number of trainees and students. The catchment area is exceptionally ethnically diverse with a high level of psychiatric morbidity and social deprivation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- To offer specialist, highly flexible and innovative assessment to young people and occasionally their families and/or refer a young person to other services as appropriate. This may include risk assessment, and subsequent risk management, with the provision of specialist advice for other professionals
- To formulate and implement highly specialised and innovative plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a young persons mental health needs; be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups and to evaluate and make decisions about the intervention options available. This will involve interpretation and integration of complex psychological data and competing or contradictory theories/hypotheses from professionals from other agencies
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention approaches of young people and to monitor progress
- To act as a lead professional, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans. This will involve offering staff from other agencies guidance on mental health
- To act in a consultative capacity for staff across the partnership and other agencies concerning the psychological issues relating to the young people known to the service
- To contribute in an active way to the network of services for young people involved in offending and to ensure the co-ordination of services provided. This will involve working closely with colleagues from other agencies
- To manage and supervise clinical posts as appropriate, including professionals from a non-mental health background
- To engage in clinical audit and maintain appropriate records of work
- Consider ways in which child and young adult mental health provision may develop within the service.
Consultation, Teaching, Training, and Supervision
- To provide consultation and training to other professionals (e.g., youth workers) within the team and partnership services developing understanding of psychological interventions; which will assist with day to day clinical practice.
- To provide consultation and training to external services as required.
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of other team members.
- To contribute to the pre and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Communication
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people and children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
- Communicate both verbally and in written format regarding complex and sensitive information.
- Communication with the MDT regarding care and treatment planning
- Communication regarding supervision and consultation with other staff.
- Communication with colleagues from health and other services regarding the provision of psychological assessment and intervention for service users.
Patient/Customer Care
- Much of the day-to-day role will involve direct contact with young people and children in both 1:1 and group settings and offer consultation to staff both within and external to the service. Providing direct clinical input as described above and communicating with the wider team regarding the treatment provided.
People (HR) Management
- Supervision of Specialist youth workers, Clinical caseworkers and other members staff
- Supervision of trainee and student psychologists when on placement, and assistant psychologists, if required.
Information Management
- Responsible for keeping good quality clinical records that comply with data protection legislation and Trust policies and protocols.
- Produce reports following each assessment and intervention.
Service Development
- To work closely with the team and young people to develop the service to ensure that it meets the needs of the young people it serves
- To contribute to the wider service development as required.
- To contribute to service evaluation and peer review as required.
Systems and Equipment
- To use and maintain psychological test equipment relevant to the role.
- To use and maintain clinical records via the services secure database
Effort, Mental and Environment
- The role requires significant mental effort in terms of assimilating and analysing complex data in relation to known and evidence based psychological theory.
- Effort to manage the emotional aspects of the role and distress displayed by clients.
To be noted:
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
- This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder.
- The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
- To offer specialist, highly flexible and innovative assessment to young people and occasionally their families and/or refer a young person to other services as appropriate. This may include risk assessment, and subsequent risk management, with the provision of specialist advice for other professionals
- To formulate and implement highly specialised and innovative plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a young persons mental health needs; be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups and to evaluate and make decisions about the intervention options available. This will involve interpretation and integration of complex psychological data and competing or contradictory theories/hypotheses from professionals from other agencies
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention approaches of young people and to monitor progress
- To act as a lead professional, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans. This will involve offering staff from other agencies guidance on mental health
- To act in a consultative capacity for staff across the partnership and other agencies concerning the psychological issues relating to the young people known to the service
- To contribute in an active way to the network of services for young people involved in offending and to ensure the co-ordination of services provided. This will involve working closely with colleagues from other agencies
- To manage and supervise clinical posts as appropriate, including professionals from a non-mental health background
- To engage in clinical audit and maintain appropriate records of work
- Consider ways in which child and young adult mental health provision may develop within the service.
Consultation, Teaching, Training, and Supervision
- To provide consultation and training to other professionals (e.g., youth workers) within the team and partnership services developing understanding of psychological interventions; which will assist with day to day clinical practice.
- To provide consultation and training to external services as required.
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
- To provide professional and clinical supervision of other team members.
- To contribute to the pre and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology, as appropriate.
- To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Communication
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people and children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
- Communicate both verbally and in written format regarding complex and sensitive information.
- Communication with the MDT regarding care and treatment planning
- Communication regarding supervision and consultation with other staff.
- Communication with colleagues from health and other services regarding the provision of psychological assessment and intervention for service users.
Patient/Customer Care
- Much of the day-to-day role will involve direct contact with young people and children in both 1:1 and group settings and offer consultation to staff both within and external to the service. Providing direct clinical input as described above and communicating with the wider team regarding the treatment provided.
People (HR) Management
- Supervision of Specialist youth workers, Clinical caseworkers and other members staff
- Supervision of trainee and student psychologists when on placement, and assistant psychologists, if required.
Information Management
- Responsible for keeping good quality clinical records that comply with data protection legislation and Trust policies and protocols.
- Produce reports following each assessment and intervention.
Service Development
- To work closely with the team and young people to develop the service to ensure that it meets the needs of the young people it serves
- To contribute to the wider service development as required.
- To contribute to service evaluation and peer review as required.
Systems and Equipment
- To use and maintain psychological test equipment relevant to the role.
- To use and maintain clinical records via the services secure database
Effort, Mental and Environment
- The role requires significant mental effort in terms of assimilating and analysing complex data in relation to known and evidence based psychological theory.
- Effort to manage the emotional aspects of the role and distress displayed by clients.
To be noted:
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.
- This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder.
- The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology
- Registration with HCPC
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Qualification/training in Family Therapy
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of working in an area relevant to this post, preferably CAMHS, YOT or a community-based adolescent team
- Evidence of a high level of competent and autonomous clinical practice.
- Understanding of monitoring outcomes
Desirable
- Experience of Attachment/mentalisation based approaches, Narrative Therapy or Community Psychology
- Experience of working in YOIs and/or prisons
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Skills in developing, managing and coordinating: psychological interventions with young people who do not initially seek help
- Working knowledge of at least two specialised psychological therapies for example CBT, Systemic Models etc
- Knowledge of research methodology as practised within the mental health field
Desirable
- Direct experience of working in a youth-led way with young people who offend
- Experience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology
- Registration with HCPC
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Qualification/training in Family Therapy
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of working in an area relevant to this post, preferably CAMHS, YOT or a community-based adolescent team
- Evidence of a high level of competent and autonomous clinical practice.
- Understanding of monitoring outcomes
Desirable
- Experience of Attachment/mentalisation based approaches, Narrative Therapy or Community Psychology
- Experience of working in YOIs and/or prisons
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Skills in developing, managing and coordinating: psychological interventions with young people who do not initially seek help
- Working knowledge of at least two specialised psychological therapies for example CBT, Systemic Models etc
- Knowledge of research methodology as practised within the mental health field
Desirable
- Direct experience of working in a youth-led way with young people who offend
- Experience of managing a multi-disciplinary staff team
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).
