Highly Specialised CAMHS Psychologist

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Adolescent Mental Health Team and

Wellbeing and Mental Health In Schools

Band 8A

Full Time Permanent Post

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated Highly Specialised CAMHS Psychologist to join the Adolescent Mental Health pathway with 1 day a week within the Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools (WAMHS).

This will be a busy, interesting, and varied job working with adolescents and their families/carers within the Adolescent Mental Health Team (AMHT).

Main duties of the job

This post is a senior role in a highly specialist clinical team within CAMHS providing services to young people and their families.

This is a community-based post, located within the Adolescent Mental Health Team (AMHT), offering therapeutic work to families with specific emphasis on adolescents with complex, enduring and severe mental health problems.

It will include the provision of specialist advice/consultation, mental health assessment, liaison with other agencies, complex care coordination, clinical intervention, and the support, clinical supervision and teaching of staff and/or students

1 day of their duties will be in the Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools (WAMHS) team providing "whole school approach" work via a CAMHS Worker In Schools role (CWIS).

The post holder will be an experienced Psychologist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health, especially in the areas of adolescent mental health and crisis / risk management. They will be expected to contribute to the operational delivery of the AMHT and to be responsible for the supervision/management of band 7 staff as directed by the Clinical Team Lead.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who provide a range of mental health assessment and treatment services to children, young people and their families. The post holder will take a leadership role within the team, including the possibility of some supervision and line management, as well as service development.

The post holder will provide comprehensive assessments for children and young people who have severe mental illness. Assessments may be carried out jointly with MDT colleagues and include at risk mental state assessments, family assessments and standardized assessments (such as the cognitive assessements, if trained or CAARMS assessment) where indicated.

The clinician will also provide evidence based interventions for children, young people and their families including individual therapies, CBT for psychosis (if trained), group work such as DBT and family intervention (if trained).

The team works in partnership with other services such as the Coborn Adolescent Unit at Newhan, Intensive Community Crisis Support Service, CAMHS Disability Service at the Hackney Ark, our other Specialist CAMHS pathway teams co-located at Homerton Row, schools, childrens social care and other community agencies.

The post holder will possess leadership skills, strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to severe enduring mental illness, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks.

We are opening out the post to a range of professional psychology disciplines including clinical, educational, counselling psychology as we value a diverse MDT for supporting the complexities of this client population. It would be important for applicants to have some experience of working with children with enduring mental helath problems and highly desirable for them to have experience of working and/or consulting in child and adolescent tier 4 inpatient units.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification & Training

Essential

Qualification in Clinical/Educational/Counselling Psychology. Clinical Psychology Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS

Experience

Essential

Substantial experience of working in a Multi-disciplinary team. Substantial experience in crisis work

Knowledge

Essential

Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres.

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