Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
2 weeks ago
Job summary
The integrated care board (ICB) have invested in the development of a new Community Intensive Support pilot for children and young people (CYP) with Autism residing in Merton, Wandsworth, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond. The Dynamic Support Team, a new pilot service that has been commissioned for an initial 12 months, is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers specialist intensive interventions for Children and Young People already under community CAMHS and on the Dynamic Support register.
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced, and committed Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join the Dynamic Support Team and to be at the forefront ofdeveloping the service alongside the rest of the team.
You will work with highly skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting home and community-based care, facilitating safe discharge, and reducing young people's lengthof stay, should admission become necessary. It is essential to be committed to safe and effective team working. The role includes individual, family and group work and the provision of telephone support to young people.
The 12-month pilot will help shape an effective and consistent model of care in South-West London, which aims to bridge the gap between community services and inpatient care, whilst also strengthening longer term local services for autistic young people long.
The service operates 5 days a week 9-5pm
Main duties of the job
To be a member of the Dynamic Support Team, working closely with the multi-disciplinary Dynamic Support Team to provide specialist assessment, interventions, and consultations to a small group of young people, families, cares agencies or services around the young person. To provide highly specialist clinical psychology services to a small number of children, young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families / carers across all sectors of care - providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance. Providing telephone support in a crisis, supporting young people and families at home to manage periods of distress and upset, and to develop positive ways of managing and coping. Co-facilitating therapeutic groups or activities. The post holder will also work very closely with families/carers to help support and provide education in managing and responding to a young person's needs To complete audit, quality improvement, and research. To provide professional and clinical supervision of the trainee and assistant psychologist in the team. This role involves independent daily travel across South West London and involves some lone working, within a close supervision structure.
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.
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:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.
The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. However, please be mindful that AOT provides a service across the whole 5 boroughs of South West London and provides predominantly home-based care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are identified on the Dynamic Support Register and under community CAMHS 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 and complications from diagnosis of ASD which may lead to crisis 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 attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings, including referral, clinical and review meetings. 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 provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for a small caseload children and young people with ASD. 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, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced 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 collect and evaluate data to support reporting back on KPIs as part of the pilot. Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
oQualified Clinical / Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist under the domain of Clinical Psychologist oEvidence of continuing professional development. oPost qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees oAdditional training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma. (A/I)
Desirable
oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach. oFormal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality. oFurther training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy. oTo have completed training in autism specific assessments ( ADOS-2, ADI-R. (A/I)
Experience
Essential
oConsolidated 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. oExperience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training. (A/I) oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in children and adolescence with neurodevelopmental conditions oConsolidated 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. oDemonstrate 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. oExperience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects. (A/I)
Desirable
oEvidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in child and adolescent neurodevelopmental CAMHS. (A/I) oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision. oExperience of service development or of a leadership role.-
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