Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Specialist Counselling Psychologist - London, United Kingdom - South West London & St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Description

An opportunity has arisen to for an enthusiastic and innovative Band 8a clinician to work with children and families in the borough of Wandsworth historically underrepresented in mainstream services.

The role forms part of a CAMHS provision based within Wandsworth Borough Pupil Referral Units (PRU).

This post will principally be based within Wandsworth's Primary age Pupil referral Unit, Victoria Drive Primary, with opportunities work across the secondary provision based on service need.

Victoria Drive Primary is a part of Wandsworth Local Authority's Inclusion Service.

The post holder will work as part of an existing Tier 2 CAMHS provision supporting children who present with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties as well as neurodevelopmental needs.

The CAMHS provision currently consists of a Practitioner Psychologist and trainees/assistants and is responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions to children attending the PRU, as well as consultation, training and reflective practice to school staff and co-ordinating multi-agency networks based on psychological formulations and need.

This is a developing service, and there will be the opportunity to lead on service development projects to shape the CAMHS offer into Victoria Drive PRU.

A wider health provision is also provided by partners into Victoria Drive, consisting of a Speech and Language Therapist, Educational Psychologists, Occupational Therapist, and Play therapist.

The post is part of Tier 2 CAMHS services and the Wandsworth Youth Justice & Pupil Referral Unit CAMHS Team, which includes clinicians from the Youth Justice Service and Secondary Pupil Referral Unit.

The post holder will be supervised by the trust Professional Lead for Youth Justice and Pupil Referral Unit CAMH Services.

The post holder will support and co-lead on the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service within the PRU, including an offer of trauma-informed assessment, intervention, consultation, and training to children, families, and staff across the PRU and partner agencies.

The appointee will work closely with children's families and their wider networks, which includes partnership agencies such as children's social care.

This aspect of the role is vital in ensuring appropriate linked-up working to contextually safeguard young people and their families.

We are Proud to Belong at South West 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'.

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 proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

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

Team meetings are typically held at Wandsworth Youth Justice Service, 177 Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0DJ and Springfield University Hospital in Tooting.

To provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young persons care.

~ To support the development of the PRU-CAMHS service, through specific service development projects, in collaboration with the wider PRU staff groups and CAMHS colleagues.

~ To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.

~ To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

~ To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.

~ To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.

~ To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.

~ To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.

~ To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

~ To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.

~ To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Teaching, Training, and Supervision

~ To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist / psychotherapist / family therapist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.

~ To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to psychology / psychotherapy and/or the service (as agreed with the teams professional manager and team manager) in accordance with the CAMHS Directorates common expectations for P& P staff.

~ To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.

~ To provide, professional and clinical supervision of trainee and assistant psychologists / psychotherapists, as well as contributing to clinical supervision of Band 6 and Band 7 staff working across the local and dedicated services.

~ To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching and training of staff, as appropriate.

~ To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings.

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development

~ To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Directorates operational policies and high quality responsive and accessible services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

~ To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures.

~ To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.

To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members in CAMHS.

~ To undertake project management, e.g., audit or service evaluation, in line the CAMHS Directorates common expectations for P& P staff, and by agreement and under direction from the Team Manager with colleagues within CAMHS.

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in line CAMHS Directorate common expectations for P& P staff and by agreement and under direction from the post holders professional and service manager(s).

~ To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology / psychotherapy across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist-practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision line CAMHS Directorate common expectations for P& P staff and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of psychology / psychotherapy and related disciplines.

~ To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the Health Professions Council and Trust services policies and procedures.

~ To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both children and young people and mental health.

Training and Development

~ To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy.

~ To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.

~ Evidence of continuing professional development.
Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.

oTraining as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
oFormal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
oFurther training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

oConsolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.

oDemonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.

oExperience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Victoria Drive Pupil Referral Unit

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