Lead of The Camden Parents' Wellbeing Service

1WTE Principle Counselling/Clinical Psychologist - Service Lead Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service (Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust)

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated 1 WTE clinical/counselling psychologist with experience of team management and systemic practice, to lead manage Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service (CPWS - a parental mental health service in Camden), and to provide psychological interventions to parents in Camden.

Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service was established in 2006 in acknowledgement of the adverse impact of poor parental mental health upon children’s wellbeing. The team has historically worked with the parents of children known to the local CAMHS who were identified as having mental health needs, and with parents identified through adult mental health services, children’s centres, and other local authority agencies. Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service is a small virtual team of psychologists offering psychological therapy interventions to individual parents and co-parenting couples, in a range of different settings. The team works to raise awareness of the profile of parental mental health through consultations, training and supervision.

The potholder will work across multiple locations within Camden borough and will provide clinic-based and home visit interventions to parents in Camden.

Preference for working days to include Wednesdays and Thursdays to maximise overlap with other team members.

There may also be opportunity for extending session time for this role in the future.

By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care. Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust is excited to be part of the development of new Clinical Associate Psychologists (CAP) roles in the UK.

At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.

**We have 3 key priorities which are**:

- Early and Effective Intervention,
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation

The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:

- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of referred clients, using interview and other assessment methods as appropriate.
- To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
- To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
- To liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
- To liaise with relevant Trust managers, consultant medical staff and other senior clinicians in the development and coordination of the service. Particularly as part of maintaining the liaison part of the role for the team.
- To participate as a senior clinician and manager in the development, evaluation and monitoring of high quality, responsive and accessible services.
- To work across organisational boundaries to form and sustain robust strategic and operational relationships and partnerships. This includes reviewing contracts with external partners and commissioners as part of reviewing service delivery.