Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated clinical or counselling psychologist to join Camden Parents' Wellbeing Service (CPWS) to provide systemically-informed psychological interventions to parents and carers of young children across Camden's children's centres.
CPWS was established in 2006 in acknowledgement of the adverse impact of poor parental mental health upon children's wellbeing. We are a small virtual team of psychologists offering psychological therapy interventions to individual parents/carers, in a range of different mental health and local authority settings in Camden. The team also works to raise awareness and understanding of parental mental health through consultations, training, reflective practiceand supervision. We are a friendly, supportive team and highly valued by the services in which we arelocated. Recently, to strengthen our existing practice, we commissioned bespoke training in Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) from the Anna Freud Centre and so the successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time in the development of the service.
Main duties of the job
To provide a clinical/counselling psychology service on behalf of CPWS to parents accessing the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (CAMHS for under 5s) and/or the Integrated Early Years Services in Camden (i.e. located in children's centres).
Services offered by the post holder will include: providing highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions for depression and anxiety and related conditions, to the individual, family and group formats; supervising, offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team, family workers, health visitors, qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists and to other clinicians. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
The post holder will become actively involved in staff training and service education/training initiatives and utilise research skills for service audit, policy and service development within the service.
The post-holder will be expected to manage their own time and base themselves across different sites according to the needs of the service and the limits of their 0.4 WTE working pattern. The Whole Family Team is based primarily at 5 Pancras Square and in addition there are five children's centres across Camden.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff networ
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post is linked to the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (Complex CAMHS for under 5s) and Integrated Early Years Services (IEYS), and based across Camden Children's Centres. The successful post-holder will be passionate and knowledgeable about parental mental health, systemic practice, service development, and nurturing the development of trainee and more junior psychologists. They will also be comfortable providing consultations and training about parental mental healthto staff within their partnership teams.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This post is linked to the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (Complex CAMHS for under 5s) and Integrated Early Years Services (IEYS), and based across Camden Children's Centres. The successful post-holder will be passionate and knowledgeable about parental mental health, systemic practice, service development, and nurturing the development of trainee and more junior psychologists. They will also be comfortable providing consultations and training about parental mental healthto staff within their partnership teams.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
- Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist.
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training (either formal/accredited or on-the-job) in one of: systemic therapy, family interventions, Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), or Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT).
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, particularly with regards to parental mental health.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other mental health professional and non-mental health professional groups.
- Skills in providing training to other mental health professional and non-mental health professional groups.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adult service users in a secondary mental health setting, ideally within the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems.
- Significant post-qualification experience working with service users with depression and anxiety and its comorbidities.
- Significant experience in clinical areas where the post has a designated special responsibility (e.g. systemic, narrative and cognitive behaviour therapy).
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision services.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies, with demonstrated competence in the delivery of effective, evidence-based psychological interventions (in particular Systemic, Narrative, MBT and/or AMBIT and CBT for anxiety and depression).
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group (including the Children Act 1989 & 2004) and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- An ability to form good working relationships with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- An ability to read and hear about trauma and domestic abuse.
- Understanding of the importance of reflective practice, self-awareness, self-care and use of supervision and support provisions to maintain safe and effective working practice. An ability to seek help when needed and communicate effectively with supervisors and managers.
- An ability to respond professionally and sensitively to service-users who are anxious, angry, or distressed.
- A positive attitude towards continuous improvement programmes and audit in health and social care.
- An ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines in-line with service needs.
- Excellent organisation skills and an ability to work safely, independently and reliably within the time constraints of the role.
Other requirements
Essential
- Excellent IT skills and confidence using multiple devices across different locations and organisations.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
- Post-graduate doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist.
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training (either formal/accredited or on-the-job) in one of: systemic therapy, family interventions, Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), or Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT).
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of a range of methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health, particularly with regards to parental mental health.
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other mental health professional and non-mental health professional groups.
- Skills in providing training to other mental health professional and non-mental health professional groups.
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adult service users in a secondary mental health setting, ideally within the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service users, across the whole life course and presenting problems.
- Significant post-qualification experience working with service users with depression and anxiety and its comorbidities.
- Significant experience in clinical areas where the post has a designated special responsibility (e.g. systemic, narrative and cognitive behaviour therapy).
- Experience of teaching, training and offering effective consultation and supervision services.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies, with demonstrated competence in the delivery of effective, evidence-based psychological interventions (in particular Systemic, Narrative, MBT and/or AMBIT and CBT for anxiety and depression).
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the service user group (including the Children Act 1989 & 2004) and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- An ability to form good working relationships with colleagues in a multi-disciplinary setting.
- An ability to read and hear about trauma and domestic abuse.
- Understanding of the importance of reflective practice, self-awareness, self-care and use of supervision and support provisions to maintain safe and effective working practice. An ability to seek help when needed and communicate effectively with supervisors and managers.
- An ability to respond professionally and sensitively to service-users who are anxious, angry, or distressed.
- A positive attitude towards continuous improvement programmes and audit in health and social care.
- An ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines in-line with service needs.
- Excellent organisation skills and an ability to work safely, independently and reliably within the time constraints of the role.
Other requirements
Essential
- Excellent IT skills and confidence using multiple devices across different locations 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).
