Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SS6187427
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City & Hackney CAMHS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 Including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical or Educational Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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 overview
City & Hackney CAMHS
Clinical or Educational Psychologist - Band 7
1.0wte – 1 year fixed term
As part of the Behaviour Support and Outreach pathway, you will work collaboratively with children, young people and their families who present with multiple and complex needs relating to conduct/oppositional behaviours alongside co-existing difficulties, such as emotionally based school avoidance, mood disorders, attachment and trauma, and neurodevelopmental conditions.
You will join a warm and experienced, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians – working together with Clinical Psychologists, Systemic Psychotherapists, Nurses, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Child Psychotherapists and CBT therapists.
Our team provide a variety of comprehensive specialist assessments and evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including individual approaches (e.g. CBT, DBT, EMDR, IPT-A, VIG and psychotherapy), systemic and family work (e.g. Family Therapy clinics, ABFT, parenting and narrative approaches), and group work (e.g. Non Violent Resistance and our outreach Boxing group). As part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance, we also work closely with our partner agencies (including statutory and voluntary organisations) to provide specialist advice, consultation and multi-agency responses.
Main duties of the job
This post is open to Clinical and Educational Psychology post based in a specialist clinical team within City and Hackney CAMHS providing services to young people and their families, with time shared between the Behaviour Support and Outreach Pathway and the Re-Engagement Unit.
The post holder will spend 2.5 days per week as part of a Tier 3 CAMHS community-based post, located within the Behaviour Support and Outreach (BS&O) pathway in City & Hackney CAMHS, the East London NHS Foundation Trust and as part of the wider Hackney CAMHS Alliance. The post holder will be offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care including a range of assessment and treatment options such as individual, parenting, family therapy and group based interventions, as well as specialist CAMHS advice/consultation and liaison with other agencies.
The post holder will spend the other 2.5 days per week as part of the Re-Engagement Unit situated within Hackney Education. The post holder will offer and oversee short term interventions, to young people at risk of exclusion as part of a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, teachers, learning mentors and family support workers. This will involve comprehensive assessment of a young person’s needs (including neuropsychological assessments, and screening for neurodevelopmental conditions) and developing a psychologically informed care plan to support the young person and the system around them. Interventions might be delivered to support the young person, their parents, or to support the school staff working with them. The post holder will offer clinical consultation and some training and development to non-clinical staff within the Re-engagement Unit.
Working for our organisation
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
The post holder will be a specialist and experienced Clinical or Educational Psychologist with a substantial knowledge of the field of child and adolescent mental health. The post holder will possess strong engagement skills, the ability to work creatively in relation to behaviour that challenges, and work effectively with complex multi-agency networks. It would be highly desirable for applicants to have some experience of working with children with behavioural difficulties, risk management, and have experience of working and consulting in schools.
The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will have a high degree of professional autonomy, and will be expected to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To complement this role, as part of the Re-Engagement Unit (REU) you will work with young people who are at risk of exclusion from mainstream education and the system that supports them. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to offer a comprehensive, short term intervention including supporting children, teachers, the family and other professionals to help make a real change for the child.
This package will be offered alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary REU team made up of teachers, learning mentors and family support workers. There will also be a CAMHS Family and Systemic Psychotherapist who also works jointly within you within both teams.
We strive to meet the East London Foundation Trust’s standards through our own team mission. We place anti-discriminatory practice at the core of our work. We are a multi professional team working together with children, families and their network, providing intensive therapeutic interventions to enable recovery and promote well-being.
Our Team’s philosophy is to provide an accessible, high-quality mental health service for young people in City and Hackney which is sensitive to their cultural, ethnic, religious, contextual, family and developmental needs. We promote mental health, well-being and personal and family growth. We emphasize giving our clients informed choices, as well as using available, appropriate, evidence-based resources and treatment packages.
Our team works in partnership with young people, their families, carers and significant others/networks including statutory and voluntary agencies
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical or Educational Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with relevant UK governing body (e.g. HCPC).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health problems, including in a CAMHS setting
- Experience of working in partnership with Education/ in Education settings
- Experience of care planning
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way
- Experience in risk assessment and risk management
- Experience in the routine use of CAMHS clinical outcomes
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS.
- Specialist clinical skills within specific therapeutic modalities.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage own caseload
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries.
- Skills in the use of Information Technology and electronic patient record systems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A high degree of self-awareness and an ability to reflect on personal and professional attitudes and accept feedback.
- Knowledge of and skill in using a wide variety of CAMHS theories and interventions and the ability to use these appropriately in relation to client need and work setting
- Awareness of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS including knowledge of The Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), the Children’s Act and other appropriate legislation In depth knowledge of CAMHS issues including assessment and interventions
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development as required by Professional Body
- Knowledge of specific inner city issues which impact on care delivery
- A working knowledge of Child Protection Guidelines
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Commitment to equal opportunities.
- Self- motivated, assertive and flexible.
- Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialised therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Mason
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead - BSO Pathway
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02023 222 5600
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