CAMHS Practitioner

West London NHS Trust; Southall; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service in Ealing seeks a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary CAMH team. The role involves providing assessments and cognitive-behavioral interventions to young people, guiding their families, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives across services. West London NHS Trust is dedicated to developing a workforce that reflects the community, welcoming diverse applicants.

Qualifications

• Experienced in delivering mental health assessments for young people aged 0-18.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Trained to provide consultations and training across various primary settings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assessments and interventions for emotional and behavioral difficulties.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary care for children and families.
• Develop specialist projects and training for professionals in child mental health.

Skills

Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions

Mental Health Assessment

Consultation

Training

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

The post holder will join a multi-disciplinary CAMH service which is responsible for the delivery of CAMHS service to children and young people living in the Borough of Ealing.

i. To work with the team to deliver assessments and evidence-based interventions for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families/carers.

ii. To contribute within the multi-disciplinary team to deliver mental health care to identified children and their families and /or carers. The post holder will deliver primarily cognitive-behavioural interventions.

iii. To undertake complex multi-agency work with all agencies (e.g. paediatrics, education, children services) and colleagues within West London Health Trust.

iv. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for their professional clinical practice within the service, including taking responsibility for contributing to audit, policy and service development/quality improvement in line with clinical governance.

• To provide mental health assessments and specialist cognitive-behavioural interventions for young people 0-18 and their families.
• To provide consultation and advice to professionals working across multi-agencies involved with respect to child and adolescent mental health.
• To provide training in aspects of child mental health to professionals in a range of primary settings, including primary health, schools and children’s social care settings and to develop a local needs analysis to support such training.
• To ensure the systemic provision of specialist mental health services to children, adolescents, their families and/or carers within the service.
• To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist projects and services under the supervision of the professional lead consultant.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines
  
  

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ellen Presser Job title: Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail]

For More Information Or An Informal Chat/visit Please Contact

Name: Ellen Presser (Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist)

E-mail: [e-mail]