CAMHS Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

- To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for Children, Young People, their family and Network where the identified client has complex mental health needs.

- To provide culturally appropriate, evidenced based interventions in partnership with carers, networks or families of referred clients.

- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

- To act as care/CPA co-ordinator taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.

- To communicate skillfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information and provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers, service users and their families.

- To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.

- To ensure that all services provided are accessible, respectful and sensitive to the needs of Southwarks diverse communities.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning.

- To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically and systemically informed framework in CAMHS.

- To provide consultations to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapy techniques and, where appropriate, to jointly work with other team members in the provision of therapeutic interventions

- To take a proactive stance in challenging racism and discrimination and support the development of a culturally competent service.

- To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans and to arrange and lead network meetings as appropriate.

- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in clinical work and work with other team members.

- To participate in helping develop services to family and carers of service users

KR 3 Policy and service development

- To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

- To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

- To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

KR 5 Management and supervision

- To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of a paid assistant if required, under supervision from a more senior therapist.

- To supervise trainees within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Supervision Training.

- To participate in the recruitment of more junior systemic practitioners and other CAMHS Clinicians, as appropriate

- To provide professional and clinical supervision to junior family workers or systemic practitioners, honoraries and trainee family and systemic practitioners

- To provide supervision for the systemic and family work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

- To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within Southwark CAMHS by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in your specialist field of practice.

- To disseminate research/service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

To contribute to multidisciplinary training events which may be organised by other staff within the Trust

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8 Research and development

- To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to registration and trust guidelines.

- To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with professional body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

KR10 General

- To travel to appropriate meetings and occasional visits in homes or community settings as appropriate and across the trust when required.

- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour and follow trust policies relating to its management, including lone working policies.

- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations (such as challenging behaviour, abuse etc) and to support others involved in such situations through Trust-wide approaches including Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Postgraduate accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
• Postgraduate accredited training in Systemic Psychotherapy Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV or First level qualification in OT, social work 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) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) .

Desirable

• Training in one or more evidence based trauma intervention
• Specific additional therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. ABFT, EFT, NVR, DBT, IPT etc.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
• Experience of working with young people who have experienced traumatic events
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.

Desirable

• Experience of using CBT or EMDR
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse innercity area
• Experience of working with issues of risk and safety both physical and relational.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to information sharing and confidentiality
• Understanding of and ability to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
• Ability to provide care that is sensitive to the needs of minoritised ethnic groups
• Ability to work in partnership with service users and carers in the planning and delivery of care

Desirable

• Working knowledge of MHA, MCA and safeguarding children legislation

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

Mapother House

De Crespigny Park

London

SE58AB

Employer's website

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