Specialist Clinical Psychologist

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust; Teddington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job summary

We are currently recruiting for a full time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in our Richmond Tier 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the London Borough of Richmond.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with experience of working in CAMHS to work in a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team to undertake assessments, and deliver interventions with children, young people, their families and the wider network.

This role includes 1 working day's provision (0.2 wte; 7.5 hours) as an ERSA (Emotionally Related School Avoidance) CAMHS Clinician within the Kingston & Richmond CAMHS ERSA pathway. This role is to support and enhance the collaborative framework between CAMHS, education & social care for children & young people with an ERSA Plus (persistent & severe) profile.

Main duties of the job

• Carry out high quality assessments;
• Provide evidence-based treatment;
• Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels;
• Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload;
• Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures;
• Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
• Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience.
• To undertake the equivalent of 1 day's work (0.2 wte; 7.5 hours) as an ERSA (Emotionally Related School Avoidance) CAMHS Clinician within the Kingston & Richmond CAMHS ERSA pathway.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at Southwest London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Livingston House

Our community hub is near shops, restaurants and stations in Teddington with trains to Richmond, Kingston, Clapham Junction, or Waterloo. This service will permanently re-locate to a new bespoke CAMHS building at Richmond Royal Hospital in Summer 2024. Richmond Royal Hospital is located in Richmond Town Centre. It is a 5 minute walk from Overground and South West Train routes.

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers.
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Qualified Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
• Where an applicant is in the final stages of training and has not yet obtained registration, an applicant will only be made an offer conditional upon successful registration within a time-scale that is specified.

Desirable

• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working.
• Experience of inter-agency working.
• Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection.

Desirable

• Experience of leading case reviews.
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration

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Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address

Livingston House

Teddington

TW11 0LB

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