Job summary
Do you want to be part of an award winning, innovative, forward thinking, young people's crisis service?
Are you are dedicated and passionate clinician who wants to be part of defining the future of crisis assessment and intervention for young people in Hertfordshire?
Following additional investment into the service we are continuing to develop a 24/7 crisis support which includes, community and hospital based assessments, therapeutic intervention packages, telephone crisis line, parent/carer support, psycho-education and prevention. With this post supporting the clinical oversight of the C-CATT assessment and C-CATT intervention team.
We are seeking applications from those with a core profession such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work who have undertaken further specialist training.
There is an expectation that the post will retain 80% clinical time and 20% of the time will be leadership and management.
Main duties of the job
With support from Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists you will provide one to one working and assessment, case discussion, oversight and support to CCATT clinicians who undertake urgent assessments, follow up appointments and brief therapeutic interventions of children/young people, and their families, in crisis.
The post holder will be a highly specialist and experienced clinician with knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To act as the lead contact and representative of the C-CATT Assessment and Intervention Team for external and internal inquiries and build relationships within and outside HPFT.
- To actively participate in specialist clinics as deemed appropriate as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To attend and lead the multidisciplinary planning meetings.
- To develop, review and evaluate care management plans for children and young people including assessment in crisis, follow up appointments and intervention pathways, in consultation with other professionals.
- To liaise with C-CATT staff in management of such cases.
- Based on the assessments and reports generated to convey sensitive, complex and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and to manage this as constructively as possible.
- To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out urgent assessments.
- To ensure documentation and care management plans are of the highest standard in collaboration with the C-CATT intervention staff.
- To provide consultation and where appropriate training to other professionals who come into contact with children and young people mental health problems.
- To offer and provide a liaison and consultation service partner agencies working with children and young people open to the C-CATT team.
- To collaborate with and provide specialist advice to partner agencies in identifying areas of need regarding health promotion and secondary preventative work.
- To provide packages of care and psycho education for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks.
- To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount, and be aware of and work within local and national Safeguarding Childrens Guidelines.
- To communicate effectively and skillfully with a wide range of people in a formal and informal manner and in verbal and written format consistent with their level of understanding, culture, and background to explore complex issues and make complex decisions.
- To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with clients and carers, taking into account sensitive cultural barriers to communication, concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress and update plans/records accordingly.
- To communicate effectively and skilfully with other professionals in the service, other colleagues within or outside the Trust, statutory and non-statutory agencies/partners relevant to the clients care and management (including for the purposes of safeguarding and liaison)
- Communicates in a way that demonstrates dignity, respect, kindness and
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a consultant or more senior clinician, clinical supervision from other senior professional colleagues as appropriate and participate in regular peer supervision within the CAMHS
- To supervise staff and oversee caseloads and development within the intervention team co-hort.
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the appropriate operational manager and professional leads
- To participate in relevant special interest groups within the profession across the Trust and nationally as appropriate, to keep up with current developments
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop 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 nursing/clinical/counselling psychology and related disciplines
- To contribute to the development of knowledge and skills base within the C-CATT MDT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments and national policy developments in the area of Crisis follow up and intervention and by implementing knowledge gained
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of staff as required
- To have developed skills in clinical supervision through attending relevant courses and supervised practice
- To undergo and maintain up-to-date Trust mandatory training requirements
- To examine independently and critically all aspects of work to ensure they comply with the NMC / British Psychological Societys and HCPCs / relevant bodys Ethics and Code of Conduct, and Trust policies and procedures
- Be a visible leader who is accessible to service users, carers and staff
- To maintain 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 British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures
- To ensure that resources are appropriately and efficiently utilised within the service
- To check equipment and report equipment failures to line management as appropriate
- To work within HPFT financial policies, procedures, and budgets
- To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using ones professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To act as the lead contact and representative of the C-CATT Assessment and Intervention Team for external and internal inquiries and build relationships within and outside HPFT.
- To actively participate in specialist clinics as deemed appropriate as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To attend and lead the multidisciplinary planning meetings.
- To develop, review and evaluate care management plans for children and young people including assessment in crisis, follow up appointments and intervention pathways, in consultation with other professionals.
- To liaise with C-CATT staff in management of such cases.
- Based on the assessments and reports generated to convey sensitive, complex and sometimes unwelcome information to clients and other professionals and to manage this as constructively as possible.
- To be regularly on the relevant duty rota, to accept referrals, provide consultation and be available to carry out urgent assessments.
- To ensure documentation and care management plans are of the highest standard in collaboration with the C-CATT intervention staff.
- To provide consultation and where appropriate training to other professionals who come into contact with children and young people mental health problems.
- To offer and provide a liaison and consultation service partner agencies working with children and young people open to the C-CATT team.
- To collaborate with and provide specialist advice to partner agencies in identifying areas of need regarding health promotion and secondary preventative work.
- To provide packages of care and psycho education for the young people and their families/ carers that takes account of the complexities of family systems and their significant social networks.
- To ensure that the needs of the client group is paramount, and be aware of and work within local and national Safeguarding Childrens Guidelines.
- To communicate effectively and skillfully with a wide range of people in a formal and informal manner and in verbal and written format consistent with their level of understanding, culture, and background to explore complex issues and make complex decisions.
- To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information with clients and carers, taking into account sensitive cultural barriers to communication, concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress and update plans/records accordingly.
- To communicate effectively and skilfully with other professionals in the service, other colleagues within or outside the Trust, statutory and non-statutory agencies/partners relevant to the clients care and management (including for the purposes of safeguarding and liaison)
- Communicates in a way that demonstrates dignity, respect, kindness and
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a consultant or more senior clinician, clinical supervision from other senior professional colleagues as appropriate and participate in regular peer supervision within the CAMHS
- To supervise staff and oversee caseloads and development within the intervention team co-hort.
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the appropriate operational manager and professional leads
- To participate in relevant special interest groups within the profession across the Trust and nationally as appropriate, to keep up with current developments
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, by continuing to develop 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 nursing/clinical/counselling psychology and related disciplines
- To contribute to the development of knowledge and skills base within the C-CATT MDT by maintaining an active awareness of current developments and national policy developments in the area of Crisis follow up and intervention and by implementing knowledge gained
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of staff as required
- To have developed skills in clinical supervision through attending relevant courses and supervised practice
- To undergo and maintain up-to-date Trust mandatory training requirements
- To examine independently and critically all aspects of work to ensure they comply with the NMC / British Psychological Societys and HCPCs / relevant bodys Ethics and Code of Conduct, and Trust policies and procedures
- Be a visible leader who is accessible to service users, carers and staff
- To maintain 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 British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures
- To ensure that resources are appropriately and efficiently utilised within the service
- To check equipment and report equipment failures to line management as appropriate
- To work within HPFT financial policies, procedures, and budgets
- To contribute to service development projects within own service area and other relevant agencies as required. This can involve contributing to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the service operational policies or other organizational issues, by initiating and using ones professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN OR Post-graduate doctorate in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Detailed awareness of legal frameworks and mental health legislation, DoH guidance, NPSA, PEAT, CQC, NHSLA, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act including an understanding of standards.
- Extensive post-registration experience of specialist assessments and treatment with clients witha range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- For Psychologists, Full registration with Health Professions Council underthe Clinical or Counselling modality
- Experience of research, service development and audit
Desirable
- For Psychologists/ Therapists Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice includingCBT
- For Psychologists, Chartered status with the British PsychologicalSociety
Areas of Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision,
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency collaboration
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems)
- Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill and experience in an evidence based therapeutic intervention
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Able to plan own workload; and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service
- Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multidisciplinary Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical / counseling psychology
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups within CAMHS
Desirable
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
- Ability to work with children and young people whose behaviour is personally challenging
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with young people
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN OR Post-graduate doctorate in clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Detailed awareness of legal frameworks and mental health legislation, DoH guidance, NPSA, PEAT, CQC, NHSLA, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act including an understanding of standards.
- Extensive post-registration experience of specialist assessments and treatment with clients witha range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- For Psychologists, Full registration with Health Professions Council underthe Clinical or Counselling modality
- Experience of research, service development and audit
Desirable
- For Psychologists/ Therapists Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice includingCBT
- For Psychologists, Chartered status with the British PsychologicalSociety
Areas of Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision,
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency collaboration
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management with clients with complex problems, including specialised psychological interventions for difficult to treat groups (eg multiple mental health and/or physical health problems)
- Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest/skill and experience in an evidence based therapeutic intervention
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively and well, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Able to plan own workload; and coordinate with other relevant staff in the delivery of clinical service
- Able to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multidisciplinary Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical / counseling psychology
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups within CAMHS
Desirable
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
- Experience and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
- Ability to work with children and young people whose behaviour is personally challenging
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and boundaries with young people
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).
