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Job summary

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CYPMHS Senior Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week
Job ref
395-PP160-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital, Cranbrook Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0ER
Town
staplehurst
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/08/2024 08:00

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Lead - CAMHS

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

This is an exciting time to be working in children’s mental health services within the transformation agenda.  Innovative ways of developing more localised services are encouraged so children and their families receive the most effective and caring local services with the best qualified staff to treat them.

Would you like to be part of this innovative agenda? Are you keen to disseminate and develop your therapeutic and leadership skills? The role of this Clinical Lead role is to support the development and implementation of a range of group, individual and consultation interventions within the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance.  This includes strategic and clinical leadership roles, such as working proactively with partners and our local provider collaborative to ensure a joined-up approach to providing help and support to CYP presenting in crisis requiring inpatient and intensive support. It also includes the provision of supervision, consultation, training and joint working within the service to spread best practice and develop the clinical offer.  There are excellent opportunities for training through the NHSE training offers.

 

Main duties of the job

You will have experience of supervising and managing others, you would also have a keen interest in developing innovative strategies to support young people and their families.

As well as holding a reduced case load, the Clinical Lead supports the wider MDT across Kent & Medway Adolescent Hospital and Intensive Home Treatment Services to deliver therapeutic interventions and develop clinical competencies through supervision, teaching, and mentoring.  Knowledge and experience of delivering interventions within child mental health is essential. Additional therapeutic skills and training such as CBT, SFBT, Family / Systemic, DBT and other therapeutic approaches is desirable.  

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.  All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.  The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Attached Job description and feel free to call Sarah Warnock for an informal chat on 0300 300 1985

Person specification

Qualifications/Registration

Essential criteria
  • Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist
  • To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, AFT, ACP)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
  • Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners
  • Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

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
Sarah Warnock
Job title
Interim Modern Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 300 1985
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