Job summary
=Are you a psychologist with a knowledge and desire to work with vulnerable children who are supported by the local authority or are looked after by the Local Authority?
Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?
The post-holder will be a member of the award winning Community CAMHS Targeted Team who offer care to children and young people presenting with emotional and behavioural problems where they may have a history of complex attachment difficulties due to abuse, neglect, trauma which are causing emotional distress and impacting on their mental health. The children we support always have a social worker who is actively supporting the family and who may be on the edge of care. Looked after by the local authority or children who have been adopted.
CAMHS Targeted Team is a welcoming, supportive multi-disciplinary team who are committed to providing innovative and high quality care. We offer a variety of evidence based specialist therapeutic interventions such as : Trauma focused CBT, work informed by Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, play therapy, systemically informed reflective network interventions and we use our knowledge of trauma and attachment to support those receiving the service whether this is direct or indirect work for the child/carers and or the networks. We work closely with a range of colleagues in social care, schools and other partners.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
The successful candidate will:
- conduct assessments and provide therapeutic interventions, in line with NICE guidance and excellent clinical practice, for children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences and may have complex trauma and other mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- There will be significant working with partner agencies such as Hertfordshire Children's service due to the nature of our team
- be part of a senior leadership team
- be part of an excellent multi-disciplinary team
- be expected to work holistically with your service users, taking a care coordination function as required
- This role would involve offering supervision to a highly skilled team
- Enhancing the teams knowledge base around trauma and mental health where children have been exposed to ACES
- Support with service development
- have oversight of professional development in team
About us
Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for 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. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
We can offer you:
- leadership and management training
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers
- The post-holder will offer Specialist Trauma and attachment based therapeutic Intervention
- To be part of leadership team guiding team in clinical practice ensuring team is functioning to meet clinical demand.
- To be part of a leadership team supporting operational functions for a team with multiple stakeholders.
- To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team, including taking an active part in MDT meetings
- To provide clinical/professional supervision to other team members within the MDT
- To provide placements to trainee clinical/counselling psychologists
- To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust policies and procedures
- To propose and implement policy and to support with service development undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and other
- To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical / counselling psychology service to clients of the Specialist CAMHS Targeted multidisciplinary team, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work (as defined by CAPA) and also contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT)
Be part of our team!
For an informal chat or visit, please contact Bianca Bernsen 01923633577
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to other non-professional carers
- The post-holder will offer Specialist Trauma and attachment based therapeutic Intervention
- To be part of leadership team guiding team in clinical practice ensuring team is functioning to meet clinical demand.
- To be part of a leadership team supporting operational functions for a team with multiple stakeholders.
- To work effectively as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team, including taking an active part in MDT meetings
- To provide clinical/professional supervision to other team members within the MDT
- To provide placements to trainee clinical/counselling psychologists
- To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust policies and procedures
- To propose and implement policy and to support with service development undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of clinical/counselling psychologists and other
- To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical / counselling psychology service to clients of the Specialist CAMHS Targeted multidisciplinary team, across all sectors of care, within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work (as defined by CAPA) and also contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS clinics (for example Specialist provision of Systemic Therapy, Child Psychotherapy, CBT, IPT)
Be part of our team!
For an informal chat or visit, please contact Bianca Bernsen 01923633577
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- 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 includingmaintaining 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, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- 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
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
- Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
Desirable
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
- Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
- Positive problem solving approach
Physical Skills
Essential
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- 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 includingmaintaining 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, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- 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
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
- Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
Desirable
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Communication Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
- Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
- Positive problem solving approach
Physical Skills
Essential
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
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).
