Senior Clinical/Counselling Child Psychologist

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic outpatient CAMHS team as a Senior Clinical/Counselling Child Psychologist. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on young people's mental health through high-quality interventions. Be part of a supportive environment that values your development and well-being. Collaborate with a passionate team committed to delivering excellent care and contributing to service development. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a respected trust known for its dedication to equality and diversity in healthcare. If you are eager to support young minds and families, this position is a perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Health and wellbeing activities

Professional development opportunities

Award-winning equality initiatives

Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with 2+ years in CAMHS.
• Registered with appropriate professional or regulatory body.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological services for children and adolescents.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment.
• Engage in treatment and outcome monitoring.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Counselling Psychology

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Multi-disciplinary Teamwork

Psychological Therapies

Education

Post-graduate training in psychological practice

Registration with professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP)

Job description

Senior Clinical/Counselling Child Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area: Senior Clinical/Counselling Child Psychologist

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week

Job ref: 395-PP080-24-H

Site: The Grove Town, Chadwell Heath

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 plus HCAS per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing date: 02/01/2025 23:59

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.

Job overview

We are seeking a Band 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Child Psychologist to join our busy and dynamic outpatient CAMHS team in Redbridge on a permanent contract. We have a growing and supportive therapy team and we are looking for a psychologist who is passionate about young people’s mental health and well-being to join us in the delivery of high-quality and effective CAMHS interventions.

This role requires a post-graduate qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body and have 2 years plus experience in delivering Psychological Therapies in a CAMHS setting.

The post holder will be an effective team member, using their own initiative, supporting their peers and team lead. They will have a commitment to actively support, liaise with other professionals & agencies as we embed a trauma and culturally informed model of practice within the service. They will receive regular clinical supervision from the lead psychologist and will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings. This role is suited to a candidate who is keen on service development, as well as managing a clinical caseload.

Main duties of the job

• Provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• Undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
• Provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on CYPMHS cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within CYPMHS, including junior medical staff.
• Contribute to audit and research.
• Actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.
• Work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
• Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
• Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.

Knowledge

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in CAMHS/EWMHS.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

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.