Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-530-A
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing CAMHS LD T3
- Town
- Ealing
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 pa including 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
The Ealing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for Learning Disabilities (CAMHS LD) team is a small, expanding, well respected, supportive, hard-working team based at Carmelita House which is a multi-agency service. CAMHS-LD provides assessment and intervention for children and young people with learning disabilities and their families where there are concerns about mental health difficulties and/or behaviours that challenge. We have excellent links with our colleagues in Education, Health and Social Care and we work collaboratively and jointly for many of the clients under our care. The team believe strongly in the importance of accessible, equitable, high quality care for children and young people with learning disabilities.
Carmelita House is in a convenient central Ealing location, very close to many transport options, shops and green spaces. Ealing CAMHS-LD comes under the organisational management of Ealing CAMHS
The CAMHS-LD team considers ongoing CPD to be very important and we have an active CPD programme; we will support the post holder/s to access CPD/training relevant to this post. Furthermore, West London CAMHS has developed new ways of working; our staff provide a combination of face-to-face clinical contact as well as clinical contact via virtual platforms, resulting in a combination of onsite and remote working.
We welcome all enquires and are happy to answer any questions you may have; you are welcome to apply for full or part time hours.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Clinical Psychologist will join the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service for Learning Disabilities (CAMHS-LD) Team, part of the Ealing multi-agency service that provides assessment and intervention for children and young people with disabilities and their families where there are concerns about emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, including challenging behaviours, mental health difficulties and social/family difficulties.
The Clinical Psychologist will hold a clinical case load of young people with a Learning Disability up to the age of 18, with a range of mental health and behavioural difficulties in the Ealing CAMHS-LD team and could also offer clinical work in the Ealing ITSBS which aims to enable children with Learning Disability and challenging behaviour to remain in the community, preventing family placement breakdown and a move to residential care.
The Specialist Clinical Psychologist will provide specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families with significant and complex problems. The successful applicant could also offer supervision to more junior staff, will receive regular professional and management supervision, and will support with team and service development as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
The link below will also provide useful information.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Clinical/Counselling Psychologists: completion of Clinical/Counselling Psychology Doctorate
- Registration with regulatory body (or pending)
Desirable criteria
- Further training in working within child and adolescent mental health.
- Further training in working with children and young people with a Learning Disability
- Further training in assessment and intervention for behaviours that challenge, specifically within the LD population.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessment and intervention with children and young people with mental health difficulties, and their parents, carers and networks.
- Assessment and intervention with children and young people with Learning Disabilities, and their parents, carers and networks.
- Work experience with families, children or adults with mental health difficulties and/or other disabilities, or who have had involvement with social care.
- Experience of clinically relevant research or audit.
- Experience of working with families from different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with children and young people in care, on the child protection register, and with highly complex professional networks.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
- Experience of working within an Education or Social Care setting.
- Experience of work with children with learning disabilities or Autism who display high levels of challenging behaviour
- Experience of teaching and training, or group work.
- Experience of Positive Behaviour Support.
Experience Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, other disabilities, and social difficulties.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health and social care context
- Knowledge of the issues of conducting research/evaluation in the context of multi-agency teams.
- Knowledge of specific strategies for working with children with Autism or Learning Disabilities.
- Experience of having written research and/or evaluation reports and papers.
- High standard of report writing Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis, for example Excel, SPSS for Windows.
- An ability to recognise, acknowledge and address issues of difference and power in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability and other social constructs.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health and social care.
- An understand of the different cultural understanding of mental health and psychological theory, and how to address this within your work
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and skills in functional analysis and positive behavioural interventions.
- Experience of implementing specific strategies for working with children with Autism or Learning Disabilities.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework, with people with a diverse range of backgrounds.
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. An ability to interact with children, young people and families who have complex needs and may be hard to engage.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Willingness to work flexibly when necessary.
- Commitment to working flexibly and collaboratively with team colleagues and to support innovative ways of working.
- An interest in working with people with social and mental health/health difficulties or disabilities, especially children and young people with such difficulties.
- A flexible, hard working and collaborative approach to work.
Desirable criteria
- An interest in service development and research and a passion for evidence-based practice.
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
- Dr Naima Lounes
- Job title
- Joint CAMHS LD Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For more information and an informal chat please contact:
Dr Naima Lounes, Joint CAMHS LD Team Manager – [email protected]
Dr Sonya Khan, Joint CAMHS LD Team Manager – [email protected]
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