Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist Psychologist

5 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist Psychologist to join our team at 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust.

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team comprising Psychiatry, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Family Therapy, and other CAMHS Clinicians. As a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-informed interventions to young people and their parents/carers in community settings or the clinic.

Main Responsibilities

  • To undertake initial assessments, including risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as appropriate to ensure patient safety during crises or emergencies.
  • To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources, including systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client's care.
  • To make skilled evaluations to employ research-based models in order to formulate and implement psychological treatment with individuals, couples, families, and carers in the context of professional and wider social systems.
  • To implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations informed by different exploratory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

About Us

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) has been going from strength to strength since its establishment in 2021, forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registrations

  • Doctoral-level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
  • Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Experience/Knowledge

  • Experience of working with children and adolescents in CAMHS or equivalent services.
  • Experience of offering and knowledge and understanding of the need to offer evidence-based therapy protocols for a range of common and less common presentations in all levels of severity.
  • Experience in managing and treating clients with a risk of self-harm, suicide, and/or substance misuse.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment, including assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
  • Experience in the application of risk assessment, including self-harm and suicidality, and intervention with both individuals and their families, and safeguarding procedures in this area.

Salary

The estimated annual salary for this role is £63,643 - £84,559, depending on experience.



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