Consultant Lead for Psychology, CAMHS

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to join a service at a time of exciting change? We are looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic Consultant Psychologists who are committed to delivering patient-focused care and treatment and looking for applicants who either have experience in a leadership role with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services or have a good foundation of transferable skills and an interest to develop in this area. We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities. The successful candidate will be supported to develop their career and flourish as a valued member of the psychology staff group, working closely with the Head of Therapies for CAMHS.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant Lead for Psychology role is a newly created post focusing on the development of the existing Psychology offer across CNWL Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We are looking for a motivated and committed Psychologist who is passionate to lead the development of psychological therapies and the therapy pathways within a highly specialised psychology service to children, young people and their parents/carers/families across 5 London boroughs, comprising service users from diverse backgrounds. Each of these areas has its own local CAMHS team as well as specialised in patient units and urgent care provision. The successful postholder will supervise and work closely with Psychology Leads in each of these areas and be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of psychologists in CAMHS including supervision and training. Contributing expert knowledge and consulting on complex cases, the Lead Psychologist for CAMHS will also directly contribute to the development of their colleagues. There will be opportunities to lead on trust wide projects and work across a range of specialities and to drive forward and manage relevant service evaluation, time-limited projects and audits as directed by the Head of Therapies

The postholder will need to be a registered Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC. If you are a creative, compassionate and dynamic leader, this post would be a great fit for you.

About us

Our Trust is an exciting place to work with a wealth of CPD opportunities available for all our staff. Here at CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles and we try to facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC Qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training dependent on professional specialism, counselling, clinical, forensic, health psychology) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Desirable

Post qualification training in assessing and working with children with neurodiversity and / or learning disabilities

Experience

Essential

Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own team and service area

Skills

Essential

To deliver evidence based psychological therapy across cultural and other differences. To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information To be expert in the skilled administration of psychometric tests, including skilled manipulation of test materials; and to be able to supervise others in administration of psychometric tests

Desirable

Formal leadership/management training in the NHS context

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