Clinical Lead - Psychologist/Family Therapist/Psychotherapist

Job Summary

Children & Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)

Come and work for NELFT's Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), and be part of one of the UK's most innovative healthcare Trusts.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinical psychologist, family therapist, or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist or professional with appropriate skills and experience to join our Swale CYPMHS. The service provides the latest in evidence-based NICE recommended Positive Behaviour Support and other psychological interventions to children, young people, and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience of working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, including challenging behaviour who have a diagnosis of moderate to severe and profound learning disability.

You will have a significant impact on the delivery and development of services for this vulnerable client group, which involves representing the service at commissioning and strategic level with key agencies.

Main Duties of the Job

1. To be the clinical lead for the Swale CYPMHS.
2. To lead on service development and delivery including research opportunities.
3. To develop partnership working with all key agencies.
4. To ensure the service is delivering the most clinically effective interventions in line with current research and clinical guidelines.
5. To ensure the service is routinely measuring clinical outcomes and delivering evidence-based practice and auditing the service delivered.
6. To ensure staff team have relevant skills and CPD, including opportunities to further their experience and training for example CYP-IAPT courses.
7. To promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
8. To assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of all young people referred to the Swale CYPMHS.
9. To provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of clinicians.
10. To ensure an excellent standard of care is provided in line with trust values and CQC.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with moderate to profound learning disabilities, 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.
• Desirable: Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners.

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.

Employer Details

Employer Name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address

Seashells family centre
Rose Street
Sheerness Kent
ME12 1AW

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