Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-G-CA-1516
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Minet Clinic
- Town
- Hayes
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 pro rata per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - CAMHS
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
To join the multi-disciplinary CAMH Service in the delivery of mental health care to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.
To provide specialist psychological and / or mental health input to children and young people and their families.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy including specialist assessments for neurodevelopmental concerns and learning disabilities (e.g. ASD, ADHD Down Syndrome).
To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines and to individuals external to CAMHS working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other professionals and to offer supervision as agreed per job plan.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the areas served by the services.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of one’s psychological practice
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary CAMH service for children and young people, within the clinical governance structures and protocols of the service
To undertake generic and specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments of children and families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests (including WISC-V, ADOS-2, 3Di, ABAS etc.), self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, including frontline workers in health, education, Social Services and the voluntary sector.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural disorders in children young people and families, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
Working for our organisation
Hillingdon CAMHS is based at Minet Clinic, Uxbridge. The team is well established and is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, positive behaviour support, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work. Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and; Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS; for children looked after). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g. schools). The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. In providing care to clients to liaise and work with family members and others involved in the client’s care, including CAMHS colleagues, frontline workers in health, education, Social Services, inpatients services and the voluntary sector.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological and / or mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice especially relevant to complex CAMHS. In particular: • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) • Positive behaviour support (PBS) • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) • ADOS-2
- Recent Safeguarding children training.
- Post-qualification training in Supervision
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical behaviour that challenges.
- Supervised experience of evidence-based treatment in relation to children with learning disabilities and associated mental health concerns.
- Substantive post-qualification experience of working within a multidisciplinary specialist CAMHS team and of proving specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
- Experience of providing supervision and consultation
- Substantive post-qualification experience of delivering evidence-based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and / or training to professionals within and outside of health settings.
- Experience of working with interpreters
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Substantive knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, in particular as applied to complex problems including cognitive behavioural methods.
- Substantive knowledge of the theoretical evidence base for understanding, formulating and providing interventions for mental health concerns experienced by children and young people
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of other specialised psychological CAMHS or family treatments
- Knowledge of CAMHS legislation
- Experience of planning and delivery group treatments.
- Knowledge and experience of research methodology
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times.
- Able to prioritise own workload and meet performance requirements for the role.
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior. In particular: • Understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the post. • Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedures.
- Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust. Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health department to perform the duties of the post.
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
- Enoch Aboagye
- Job title
- Interim Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01895 256521
- Additional information
Dr Hugo Madden
Therapies Lead
Hillingdon CAMHS
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