Job summary
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As part of the Behaviour Support and Outreach pathway, you will work collaboratively withchildren, young people and their families who present with multiple and complex needs relating to behaviours that challenge, alongside co-existing difficulties, such as emotionally based school avoidance, mood disorders, attachment and trauma, and neurodevelopmental conditions.
You will join a warm and experienced, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians - working together with Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Psychotherapists, Nurses, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Child Psychotherapists and CBT therapists.
Our team provide a variety of comprehensive specialist assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including individual approaches (e.g. CBT, DBT, EMDR, IPT-A, VIG and psychotherapy), systemic and family work (e.g. Family Therapy clinics, parenting and narrative approaches), and group work (e.g. Non Violent Resistance and an outreach Boxing group). As part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance, we also work closely with our partner agencies (including statutory and voluntary organisations) to provide specialist advice, consultation and multi-agency responses.
Main duties of the job
This post is a Clinical Psychology post based in a specialist clinical team within City and Hackney CAMHS providing services to young people and their families.
The post holder will be part of a Tier 3 CAMHS community-based post, located within the Behaviour Support and Outreach (BS&O) Pathway in City & Hackney CAMHS, the East London NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance. The post holder will be offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care including a range of assessment and treatment options such as individual, parenting, family and group based interventions, as well as specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and liaison with other agencies.
The post holder will be an experienced Clinical Psychologist with a substantial knowledge of the field of child and adolescent mental health. The post holder will possess strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to behaviour that challenges, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have some experience of working with children with behavioural difficulties, risk management, and supervision
The post holder also provides a school consultation role as a CAMHS Worker in School (CWIS) as part of the Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools (WAMHS) Programme. This role aims to develop and sustain closer working links between CAMHS and education by providing training, consultation and support, signposting and liaison.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist CAMHS assessments of children, young people and their families with significant and complex problems in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescents mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing research and evidence-base.
- To provide comprehensive risk assessments of children, young people and their families/carers including participating on the CAMHS crisis rota.
- Be responsible for choosing and implementing a range of appropriate highly specialist psychological assessments of young people and their families, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with young people, family members and others involved in their care.
- Formulate and implement plans for the psychological intervention and/or management of a young persons mental health problems, based upon an appropriate formulation of the clients problems and employing methods of proven efficacy across the full range of care settings.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual young people, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
** Full Job Description attached **.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide specialist CAMHS assessments of children, young people and their families with significant and complex problems in order to formulate and implement plans for the treatment and management of a child or adolescents mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing research and evidence-base.
- To provide comprehensive risk assessments of children, young people and their families/carers including participating on the CAMHS crisis rota.
- Be responsible for choosing and implementing a range of appropriate highly specialist psychological assessments of young people and their families, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with young people, family members and others involved in their care.
- Formulate and implement plans for the psychological intervention and/or management of a young persons mental health problems, based upon an appropriate formulation of the clients problems and employing methods of proven efficacy across the full range of care settings.
- Be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individual young people, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
** Full Job Description attached **.
Person Specification
education
Essential
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. systemic therapies, neuropsychology
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent mental health
- Experience of working with a high level of mental health difficulty and/ or behaviour that challenges
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of relevant research and literature relating to child development/ and evidence based assessment and intervention
- Skills in applying theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
Person Specification
education
Essential
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Qualifications/ training in specialist skills e.g. systemic therapies, neuropsychology
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent mental health
- Experience of working with a high level of mental health difficulty and/ or behaviour that challenges
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of relevant research and literature relating to child development/ and evidence based assessment and intervention
- Skills in applying theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
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).
