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Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
260-TP-625-A
Employer
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
First Step Bounds Green Health Centre
Town
London
Salary
£56,388 - £62,785 PA including Outer HCAS - Pro Rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/05/2024 23:59

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Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust logo

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

 

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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Job overview

This post is for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join the First Step / First Step Plus Team.

First Step is an innovative and highly specialist psychological health screening and assessment service for Haringey’s children and young people in care. The team is multidisciplinary with social work, clinical psychology, child psychiatry, systemic, and child psychotherapy representation. We are based at Bounds Green Health Centre in Haringey.

The service provides comprehensive psychological health assessments to all children new into care in Haringey, as well as providing briefer assessments of children currently in care. It also works as First Step Plus, an expanding part of our service, with a small number of young people who have experienced multiple placement moves and instability in care and are unable to access a CAMHS. We offer consultation and network support to professionals with regards to children in care. We provide a time limited package of support for a small number of cases when the Courts have directed rehabilitation back home to birth families.

Assessments /interventions are undertaken in conjunction with other key professionals, including social workers, carers, LAC health colleagues and education staff. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of evidenced based care to a group of service users, conscious of their changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity, working collaboratively, with other clinicians and stakeholders. You will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of outcome focused, evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care.

Working for our organisation

The Community & Integrated Service

Our community and Integrated service line is home to all our services that work in the community or are integrated into community teams such as with the local authority or primary care. The service line is home to our core Community Camden CAMHS as well as adult primary care service in Hackney. The service line is fully multidisciplinary with teams that are staffed with Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work, Psychotherapy, Nursing and Family Therapy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description document for the full list of duties and responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ masters/doctorate level
  • Registration with HCPC or relevant body as a Clinical Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of clinical experience of working with looked after children, young people, and their networks. A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery.
  • A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
  • Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
  • Expertise of managing and treating the client group Some experience of clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
  • Some experience of clinical management of staff
  • Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement

Skills

Essential criteria
  • High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
  • Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
  • Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
  • Ability to manage own clinical case load

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
  • Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments

Personal Attributes (Demonstrable)

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
  • Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
  • Ability to work effectively within a team
  • Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
  • Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs

Other

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel
  • Keyboard / IMT skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Martina Weilandt
Job title
Specialist Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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