Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESULT AREAS

Clinical:

1. To provide and enable specialist psychological assessments of children and young people .
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of children and young peoples problems.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for children and young people, carers, families and groups.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard and complex care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
7. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of children and young people of the service.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To act as case manager, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the child or young persons needs,.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by supervisees.
12. To act as a specialist clinical resource, regarding primary care psychological services for children and young people, with LD to the wider local health network including statutory and voluntary LD, mental health, and related services.

1. To act as a clinical lead for psychological assessments and interventions in a specialist area of practice, with CYP with LD and Neurodevelopmental needs and their families.

1. To consult with all relevant professionals and managers.

1. To manage, monitor, evaluate and maintain the quality of these specialist services, in keeping with the promotion of equality and freedom from discrimination for service users.
2. To represent and promote services for CYP with LD consistent and Neurodevelopmental needs with developments in CNWL and nationally, influenced by NHS England Transforming Care programme.
3. In collaboration with colleagues in the service for Adults with LD and/or Autism, and with the participation of CYP and their families, to develop the phase of transition between the services, in keeping with the aims of the Transforming Care programme: to improve the quality of care; the quality of life; and enhance community capacity for supporting service users.

Teaching, training and supervision

1. To ensure appropriate systems are in place for the clinical and professional supervision of qualified and trainee psychologists within services for CYP with LD in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon.

1. To facilitate clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists and other psychology staff, ensuring that trainees receive appropriate supervision from a qualified psychologist and acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good care for CYP with LD. To ensure that assessment and evaluation of such competencies is carried out in supervision.

1. To provide or ensure clinical and professional supervision to clinical psychologists and/or counselling psychologists, including those recently qualified, who are involved in CNWL services for CYP with LD.

1. To provide advice, consultation and training to other members of CNWL staff for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve the functioning and wellbeing of children and young people with LD.

1. To provide in house pre- and post-qualification teaching to clinical staff.

1. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

1. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

Management, recruitment, policy and service development

1. To participate as a Consultant Psychologist LD Specialist, for children and young people, their carers and families in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service, including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.

1. To advise the Service Manager about the resources available to the service, whether in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychologists, or in the form of psychological/therapeutic materials employed in the assessment and treatment of children and young people.

1. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice, including maintaining systematic records of appraisals, clinical record keeping standards and the transcription of minutes and records of appropriate professional meetings.

1. To participate and be responsible for staff recruitment to services for CYP with LD , through writing job descriptions, preparing adverts, managing the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists in the team.

1. The postholder will be required to attend the regular clinical, professional and management meetings of the CNWL CAMHS service line.

1. In consultation with the Service Manager and/or Team Manager of each borough, to monitor, maintain and negotiate levels of service within the organization in accordance with service level agreements in each of the boroughs to provide timely and appropriate service data and statistics as required by commissioners, Trust managers etc.

1. To have up-to-date knowledge of, interpret and apply appropriately, relevant Trust policies and procedures as required.

1. To be responsible for the appraisal of Psychology staff in the sector in line with Trust policies.

1. To take a central service development role in the expansion of the provision of psychological interventions CNWL services for CYP with LD.

IT responsibilities (other than those used for research)

1. The post holder will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data and provide this to the Service Manager/Head of Speciality when necessary.

1. The postholder will engage in relevant computer and IT training as required.

1. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that those psychologists they are responsible for/supervise engage in relevant computer and IT training as required and will input and maintain, appropriate computer and manual clinical records and statistical data.

1. To ensure that suitable IT systems are in place to record and audit clinical and professional activity in the relevant psychology services

Research and service evaluation

1. To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of operational policies regarding services for CYP with LD, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other colleagues working with CYP with LD..

1. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.

1. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to children and young people and their families, in CNWLs three outer London boroughs,.

General

1. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
2. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the Health and Care Professions Council, British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
5. As Consultant Psychologist for CYP with LD, to ensure that policies (e.g. waiting list management) etc. are adhered to and contribute, with other consultant psychologists and Directorate Heads of Service, to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the Directorate.
6. To facilitate a process in which all psychologists, and related staff, within the areas of line management responsibilities (listed above) maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Person Specification

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or counselling psychologist for a minimum of six years, including relevant post qualification experience within a CAMHS and/or Adult LD service.
• Experience in a managerial/leadership role in an CAMHS service.
• Awareness of national and local CAMHS performance monitoring requirements. A sound knowledge of appropriate ROMS and use of an electronic clinical recording system
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 liaising with services relevant to CYP, including schools, LA Child and Family Services, and NHS Child Health, and Paediatric Services.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children and young people' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training, professional and clinical supervision.

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Essential

• relevant experience of working at band 8B level

Desirable

• Experience of working at 8B with with LD,ADHD & ASD

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Any of: Harrow ,Hillingdon & Brent sites

Northolt Road

Welwyn Garden City

HA2 8EQ

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)