Transitions & PDS Psychologist/Mental Health Professional Camden

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London seeks a Transitions & PDS Psychologist to support young adults in their transition from CAMHS to AMHS. The role involves psychological assessments, case consultation, and therapeutic interventions for young people with complex emotional needs. An ideal candidate will have doctoral training in psychology and experience with this demographic. The position offers a salary range of £56,276 to £63,176 per annum, with flexible working conditions.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology.
• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment.
• Significant experience working with young people with mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments for young people.
• Conduct joint assessments with Core Teams.
• Facilitate engagement of young adults with services.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Case consultation

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Therapeutic intervention

Communication skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology

Cognitive behaviour therapy qualification

Job description

Transitions & PDS Psychologist/Mental Health Professional Camden

We are recruiting to cover the established post-holder's role while they are on their 12 months maternity leave. It's an exciting role, jointly hosted by the Trust's Young Adults and Personality Disorder pathways, specialising in working with Yong Adults (18-25) who are making the transition from CAMHS to AMHS as they reach their 18th Birthday.

The transition of young people from child and adolescent services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) can be problematic. This role has been developed to assist with the assessment, risk management and care planning from the age of transition so that young people presenting with complex emotional needs are more ready and open to the way adult services work.

The post-holder will be responsible for championing the needs of young people (18 - 25) within the Camden and Islington Personality Disorder service. You will be required to work flexibly, independently and responsively within a dynamic working environment. Applicants need to be comfortable with outreach and multi-agency joint working and need to have experience in direct working with services users with personality disorder or enduring complex needs. Applicants need to be confident in providing case consultation to staff from a variety of professional backgrounds and have significant experience of multi-disciplinary team working.

Main duties of the job

The main focus of this role will be to provide assessment and therapeutic intervention to young people presenting with complex emotional needs, facilitating the smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to the adult personality disorder service. Alongside this, our work involves supporting the wider network to work more effectively with young adults who present with complex mental health problems, specifically 'personality disorder'. The post holder will provide support through:

• Staff case consultation (either individually or in group session)
• Liaison and navigation between different services in the care pathway
• Training
• Direct working with service users - including assessment and therapeutic case holding

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

To provide psychological assessments of young people using the PD service, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To conduct joint assessments of young people with the Core Teams when there are queries around personality related difficulties.

To provide a training and consultation model for primary care management of young people presenting with PD

To provide flexible practices within the PD service to facilitate the engagement of young people (18-25) with the service.

To work closely with local CAMHS services to facilitate smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services.

To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for young people with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

To provide advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of young people using the service.

Opportunities for developing therapy offers to young people who are under the PD service.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide psychological assessments of young people using the PD service, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To conduct joint assessments of young people with the Core Teams when there are queries around personality related difficulties.

To provide a training and consultation model for primary care management of young people presenting with PD

To provide flexible practices within the PD service to facilitate the engagement of young people (18-25) with the service.

To work closely with local CAMHS services to facilitate smooth transition of young people from CAMHS to adult services.

To formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for young people with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and to provide psychological treatment for such clients, using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

To provide advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of young people using the service.

Opportunities for developing therapy offers to young people who are under the PD service.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

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Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology and current registration with the Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist or a counselling psychologist OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in cognitive behaviour therapy and working towards eligibility for registration with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
• Completion of further post-qualification specialist training in areas of practice relevant to the post

Experience

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity Experience of working with young people with severe and enduring mental health problems

Skills

• Experience of working with young people who struggle to engage with mainstream services Significant post-qualification experience working with the client group of the post or a related client group Experience in the supervision of appropriate evidence based psychological interventions Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision Experience in psychological assessment and therapy in different cultural contexts

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.

Service Manager C&I Personality Disorder Service

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearPer annum including HCAS (pro-rata)