CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in London is looking for a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join their multi-disciplinary team. The role involves providing specialist assessments and interventions for young people with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities. The ideal candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and relevant experience. Flexible working arrangements are available, supporting a strong work-life balance. This position offers opportunities for professional development and teamwork in an innovative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychological assessments and interventions.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff.
• Proficiency in using routine outcome measures.
• Experience working with young people with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments and interventions to young people.
• Conduct clinical supervision and training for staff.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings and care planning.
• Oversee clinical governance and quality assurance.

Skills

Assessment skills

Intervention planning

Team collaboration

Clinical supervision

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

The postholder will work as a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in AID-IIT to provide specialist psychology input into MDT assessments, psychological interventions to young people and parents/carers and consultation, training and support to multi‑agency local networks including staff from local and inpatient CAMHS settings, and supervision, line management and support to other junior staff within AID-IIT. The role includes work across a range of settings - offering outreach work in community settings, inreach work in inpatient settings, working from home, and working from our clinic base, depending on the needs of the young person, family and network. The role will also involve contributing to service developments within AID-IIT and across wider SCAAND. The postholder will work within the AID-IIT to provide highly specialist psychology assessments, interventions and support within the multi-disciplinary team including:

• Offering assessment (including where needed cognitive/psychometric assessment) and intervention to young people with highly complex presentations, their families/carers and wider networks.
• To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training.
• To contribute to care planning of young people by attending CETRs, CPAs and other professional/network meetings.
• To use routine outcome measures and to contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.
• To oversee good clinical governance.
• To contribute to the leadership of the team including service development/planning, and the supervision and recruitment of more junior staff within AID-IIT.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To work flexibly as needed across settings offering outreach work when needed - for example seeing young people in inpatient settings, family homes, community settings across London as required.

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by: embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice; ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment. We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity.

Please note: That all applications for this post will need to be made online, that you read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria. The closing date listed is a guide only and the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible. That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful. That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees. That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. That we are a smoke-free Trust. SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion; Stonewall is the largest LGBT rights charity in Europe.

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NHS AfC: Band 8a. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond. We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as “good”. We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers. The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust. Our Values: We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values are at the heart of everything we do: caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what we say we are going to do. We are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

Due to service expansion the National and Specialist (N&S) CAMHS Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT) are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The AID-IIT are an innovative multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of London. We offer specialist multi-disciplinary outpatient support to young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID who are at high risk of inpatient admission or already admitted to a CAMHS inpatient unit. AID-IIT co-work with inpatient and local CAMHS teams across London to improve care and support for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID and high-risk presentations. Staff working in AID-IIT benefit from excellent team support and development opportunities. We have close links with the rest of the Service for Complex Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SCAAND) and with other N&S CAMHS teams. The team are at the forefront of the development of support, practice and interventions for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID. Clinical work in AID-IIT is diverse - including working into both inpatient and outpatient/community settings, offering consultation and training, contributing to complex multi-disciplinary assessments, offering interventions for children, young people, parents and carers, and contributing to research and publication. AID-IIT staff have access to a range of CPD and training opportunities both within and outside of SLAM NHS Trust.

Flexible working: As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post.