Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Employer South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust Location Wallington Salary £39,342 to £50,228 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs Closing date 27 May 2024

The Single Point of Access (SPA) team is made up of Consultant Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Assistant Psychologists and administrators. The SPA team forms part of the wider CAMHS service based alongside T3 CAMHS at the Jubilee Health Centre. The team processes referrals for young people from a range of professionals and completes assessments for young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties, as well as potential neurodevelopmental conditions.

A key role of the SPA is to complete screening for Neurodevelopmental conditions. Both the screening and assessment processes are led by qualified clinicians with support from assistant psychologists and administrators. The whole team values having supportive relationships with each other. Main duties of the job We have developed an exciting specialist full-time opportunity (with possibility for part time working) for a Band 8a or Band 7-8a Preceptorship Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. We are looking for a committed Clinical/Counselling Psychologist who is passionate about working with children and young people and has a special interest in neurodevelopmental screenings and assessments. The role will be based within the Sutton SPA team working alongside other SPA clinicians to complete assessment, formulation and signposting for young people presenting to the service. This new role has a specialist remit around neurodevelopmental screening and has exciting development opportunities with supervision of an Assistant psychologist directly linked to the role and the opportunity to provide consultation to other SPA clinicians in relation to screening for neurodevelopmental conditions. This role is open to qualified clinical or counselling psychologists with the following:

• Qualification as Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC
• Experience of working with children and young people
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
• The ability to efficiently manage a caseload
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
• A special interest in the area of neurodevelopment and neurodiversity.

About us We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'. This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services. We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. About our locations: Sutton CAMHS (Wallington) The position will be based within Sutton CAMHS located at the Jubilee Health Centre in Wallington. This is easily accessible via train from London Bridge, Victoria and Epsom, or via car with local parking available. Job description Job responsibilities Clinical

• To provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young persons care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and / or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.
• To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced Care Planning Approach (CPA) including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist / psychotherapist / family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to psychology / psychotherapy and/or the service (as agreed with the teams professional manager and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS Directorates common expectations for P& P staff.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
• To provide, professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant psychologists / psychotherapists, as well as contributing to clinical supervision of Band 6 and Band 7 staff working across the local and dedicated services.
• To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching and training of staff, as appropriate.
• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development

• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorates operational policies and high quality responsive and accessible services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.

Research and Service Evaluation

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members in CAMHS.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
• To undertake project management, e.g., audit or service evaluation, in line the CAMHS Directorates common expectations for P& P staff, and by agreement and under direction from the Team Manager with colleagues within CAMHS.

Other

• In common with all psychologists / psychotherapists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines.
• 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 line CAMHS Directorate common expectations for P& P staff and by agreement and under direction from the post holders professional and service manager(s).
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology / psychotherapy across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist-practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision line CAMHS Directorate common expectations for P& P staff and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of psychology / psychotherapy and related disciplines.
• 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 Health Professions Council and Trust services policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both children and young people and mental health.

Training and Development

• To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy.
• To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
• To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
• Development to 8A in preceptorship post will follow the trusts Preceptorship Policy

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• oQualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.

Desirable

• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

Experience Essential

• Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course 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 training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.

Employer details Employer name South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust Address Jubilee Health Centre Wallington SM6 0HY Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 294-CAMHS PB-A

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