CAMHS Principal Clinical Psychologist (N&S Orchids)

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job description

CAMHS Principal Clinical Psychologist (N&S Orchids)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The new Orchids Team, working in collaboration with the Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT), is seeking a Principal Clinical Psychologist. The Orchids Team is a new and innovative multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of London and working in partnership with the AID-IIT. The team offers specialist multi-disciplinary outpatient support to children and young people up to the age of 13 years old with neurodevelopmental disorders or intellectual disabilities who are at high risk of inpatient admission or already admitted to one of the CAMHS under 13s inpatient units. The Orchids Team co-works with inpatient and local CAMHS teams across London to improve care and support for young people with a diagnosis of autism or intellectual disability and high-risk presentations. Staff working in the Orchids Team benefit from excellent team support and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work as a Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Orchids Team to provide clinical 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. The role includes work across a range of settings - offering work in community settings, 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 the Orchids Team and across wider AID-IIT and SCAAND where appropriate.

Job responsibilities

The postholder will work within the Orchids Team and in close partnership with AID-IIT to provide highly specialist clinical psychology assessments, interventions, and support within the multi-disciplinary team including:

1. To work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in AID-IIT to develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to the Orchids Team and personally provide highly specialist clinical psychology input.
2. Offering assessment (including where needed cognitive/psychometric and neurodevelopmental assessments) and intervention to young people with highly complex presentations, their families/carers, and wider networks.
3. To provide clinical supervision, consultation, and training.
4. To contribute to care planning of young people by attending CETRs, CPAs, and other professional/network meetings.
5. To use routine outcome measures and to contribute to service evaluation, audit, and research.
6. To oversee good clinical governance.
7. To contribute to the leadership of the team including service development/planning, and the supervision and recruitment of more junior staff within the Orchids Team.
8. 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.
9. 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualification as a Clinical psychologist: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent; that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. (A/I)
• Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice.
• Completed training course in clinical supervision. (A/I/R)
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC. (A/I)
• To have completed training in autism specific assessments (e.g. ADOS-2, ADI-R). (A/I)

Experience

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in CAMHS with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders and intellectual disabilities. (A/I)
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders or intellectual disabilities. (A/I)
• Significant experience of completing social communication assessments with children and young people as part of a multi-disciplinary team using standardised assessment tools such as the ADOS-2 and ADI-R. (A/I)

Understanding and Knowledge

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or intellectual disabilities and co-morbid mental health disorders.
• Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or intellectual disabilities and co-morbid mental health disorders.
• Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or intellectual disabilities and co-morbid mental health disorders.

Skills

• To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation, and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ.
• To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials.
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups (A/I/R).
• Experience in providing consultation to other professionals regarding children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or intellectual disabilities. (A/I)

Abilities

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I/R)
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £70,387 to £80,465 a year per annum incl. of Inner HCAs pro rata