Job summary
This post is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist 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 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 may also provide 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.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Behaviour Support and Outreach pathway, you will work collaboratively with children, 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. You will offer line management and supervision within the pathway to support the development of your colleagues and to support the safe and effective running of the pathway.
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.
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
FULL JD & PS ARE ATTACHED
As part of the post, you may also provide 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 whole school approaches to well being (e.g. training, consultation and support, signposting and liaison) in schools. Experience of working and consulting in schools is thus desirable.
To support you, a high standard of clinical supervision will be provided by an experienced clinician from your professional discipline. We will support you to develop specialist assessment and intervention skills and pursue specific areas of interest, including service development projects where appropriate. You will have opportunities for reflective practice, training, continuous professional development and well-being support.
We welcome applicants who enjoy working effectively as part of a team, have competencies in working with families from diverse cultures and ethnicities, and have a commitment to delivering high quality, evidence based practice. Applicants who have experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working inter-culturally are welcomed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
FULL JD & PS ARE ATTACHED
As part of the post, you may also provide 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 whole school approaches to well being (e.g. training, consultation and support, signposting and liaison) in schools. Experience of working and consulting in schools is thus desirable.
To support you, a high standard of clinical supervision will be provided by an experienced clinician from your professional discipline. We will support you to develop specialist assessment and intervention skills and pursue specific areas of interest, including service development projects where appropriate. You will have opportunities for reflective practice, training, continuous professional development and well-being support.
We welcome applicants who enjoy working effectively as part of a team, have competencies in working with families from diverse cultures and ethnicities, and have a commitment to delivering high quality, evidence based practice. Applicants who have experience and appreciation of some of the richness and complexities of working inter-culturally are welcomed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
- Registration with relevant UK governing body
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent mental health - assessed experience of working at an equivalent to Band 8a level in 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent)
- Registration with relevant UK governing body
Experience
Essential
- Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent mental health - assessed experience of working at an equivalent to Band 8a level in 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).
