CAMHS Clinical Specialist or Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

1. This is a specialist post focussing on delivering a CAMHS service to children and young people in care and adopted children and their families. Age range 0-18 years.
2. To provide specialist assessment and treatment to children, adolescents and their families referred to Southwark Carelink CAMHS.
3. The post holder will use specialist clinical knowledge and knowledge of child and adolescent mental health theories to carry out evidence-based assessments and interventions.
4. To manage your own caseload and provide specialist therapeutic interventions to include work with parent and child together, individual work, parent work and family work. Also, direct work with children (e.g. psychotherapy/art therapy/play therapy/DBT/CBT) with both short term and long term interventions.
5. Postholder will share responsibility with senior colleagues for ensuring that staff within the team achieve positive clinical outcomes for children, young people and their families and that these are evidenced by performance indicators such as activity data, targets and quality outcome measures and implementation of NICE guidance.
6. The post holder will manage clinical risk within their part of the team and in conjunction with other site-based senior staff participating in a duty system for risk management and emergency cases.
7. The post holder will take an active role in the research activities of the team and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of child and adolescent mental disorders.
8. The post holder will work in partnership with other members of the CAMHS team, other CAMHS services, Child Health/Paediatric Services, and Childrens Social Care and other partner agencies to support integrated practice and service delivery.
9. The post holder will participate in clinical and/or professional supervision and will supervise, advise or manage junior members and trainees of the team.
10. The post holder will contribute to the training activities of the team both within the service and externally.
11. The post holder will use and maintain skilled standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others

Communications and Working Relationships:

DAILYConsultant staff , Team Members , Administration and Secretarial staff, Southwark CAMHS referrals team, Professionals and other agencies working with children and their families in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector

WEEKLY Other Health Care Professionals Members of relevant professional networks

AS NECESSARY Service Manager, Lead Clinician, other SLAM Staff and professionals working with the child including the GP, Trust named nurse for Child protection, Researchers/ Educators, Trainers

Please see attached job specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV or Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or First level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent or First level qualification in art, play or drama therapy, family therapy or other psychotherapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems. All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health Professional's Council (HPC/ HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), Social Work England, the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) or the BPS (British Psychological Society).

Desirable

• Training in clinical supervision such as ENB 998 or mentorship and or equivalent experience and training.
• Doctorate or MSc associated with CAMHS or equivalent strong portfolio of clinical professional development.

Knowledge

Essential

• Mental health disorders in children and adolescents
• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the general evidence base for treatment in child and adolescent mental health
• The Children Act 1989, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental capacity Act 2005 and safeguarding children legislation.
• The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing.

Desirable

• Relevant research and its application to assessment, treatment and case management of CAMH disorders.
• The principles of clinical governance and CAMHS practice

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team as a specialist practitioner in a mental health setting.
• Experience of undertaking crisis mental health assessments.
• Evidence of experience of clinical governance and audit and the process of clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Working with families in a multi-racial urban environment.
• Experience of working as a case manager in child and adolescent mental health.
• Evidence of providing CAMHS interventions ie group, individual or family work and multidisciplinary work.
• Experience of supervising others.

Skills

Essential

• Good written and verbal presentation skills
• Basic IT and data entry skills
• Proven ability to be 'reflective' in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection
• Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and with partner agencies.
• Excellent time-management and organisational skills to deliver targets and meet deadlines

Desirable

• Professional leadership skills
• Basic skills in financial management

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Lister Primary Care Centre

101 Peckham Rd

London

SE15 5LJ

Employer's website

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