CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner – Clinical Psychologist

CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner – Clinical Psychologist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our developing Gloucestershire CAMHS Outreach service.

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision for children and young people aged under 18 experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Our service focuses on delivering admission avoidance, supporting safe discharge from a Tier 4 in-patient admission. We have a fantastic success rate of supporting children and young people in their recovery at home to ensure they receive the treatment they need.

CAMHS is part of a wider Children and Young People's Directorate where we are developing integrated ways of working with physical health colleagues, including Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and School Nurses. Our service is embedded in strong values which put children and families at the heart of what we do.

Main duties of the job

• You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, undertaking clinical responsibility for psychological interventions, adhering to risk management and care planning processes, liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a specific focus upon providing highly specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those vulnerable children and young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs.
• You will provide highly specialist clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
• Undertake an active clinical leadership role and other management related tasks regarding planning, delivering and evaluating the CAMHS Outreach service improvements/learning from continuous improvement cycles in conjunction with the Integrated Children and Young People's Senior Leadership Team.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC / ACP.
• Formal Teaching and Assessing Certificate / Qualification.

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate extensive, post qualification experience of providing highly specialist and profession-based as well as evidence-based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs, including undertaking specialist Self Harm assessments. This will also include significant experience of working within a positive risk management model of practice.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and high levels of competency regarding CAMHS care coordination, including managing highly vulnerable children and young people with complex, multi agency needs. This will include working therapeutically with highly vulnerable and traumatised children, children with health-related needs, to deliver personalised care planning.
• Experience of developing outcome tools/clinical evaluation systems.

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based professional interventions, including current best practice related to a CAMHS setting.
• Demonstrate clinical leadership skills in personalisation and participation ensuring the "voice" of the child is heard at all levels of service delivery.
• Demonstrate highly specialist knowledge and competency regarding undertaking complex risk assessments and developing effective risk management plans.
• Demonstrate extensive and specialist knowledge of using routine outcome measurements within daily clinical practice, including ability to evaluate service experience against expected clinical outcomes.
• Robust clinical knowledge of adult mental health problems and relevance to CAMHS.

PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES

• High commitment to extend specialist CAMHS related clinical skills as required through reflective practice, CPD opportunities and other initiatives.
• Demonstrate effective clinical leadership skills and commitment and take an active role within CAMHS continuous improvement cycles and implementing learning across the service. This includes pursuing service developments and new/innovative ways of working with children and young people with mental health and learning disability needs.
• Excellent standard of verbal and non-verbal communication skills including report writing skills.

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust