Clinical / Counselling Psychologist / Cbt Therapist - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are delighted to be advertising two new investment posts to support the development of our CBT pathway in our Horizon Core Tier 3 CAMHS Team.

We also are recruiting for two further posts, one of which is vacant due to staff progression within the team.

Successful applicants will be joining a diverse and innovative multi disciplinary team, therefor there will be many opportunities for learning, development and integrative working with young people with moderate to severe mental health problems.

As a service we are proud of our commitment to staff wellbeing and supporting staff in their aspirations.

We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.

We have recognised the need for continuous learning and development of anti racist practice as clinicians and a service.

For this role, we offer career pathways to Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychology / CBT Leadership Roles. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment techniques /modalities.

To provide a Clinical/ Counselling Psychology/ Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Assessment, Formulation and Treatment service within the Horizon Team (Core tier 3 CAMHS Team) in Lewisham CAMHS.
To manage a caseload as a Care Coordinator.
To utilise outcome measures and service user feedback to inform collaborative care planning, monitoring and supporting the journey of young people through the Lewisham CAMHS Service.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and, depending of experience, band 6 qualified staff.
Consultation as appropriate.
To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
To work as an autonomous professional within BPS, BABCP and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

Flexible working:

Although these are full time posts, we would be happy to consider part time work / job shares in line with service need.

As one of the few Trusts in London we are happy to talk about flexible working at the interview stage.

In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

The objective of Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is to provide a multidisciplinary diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders in particular those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems suggestive of psychiatric disorder.

The service has five Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams:

Horizon (Generic), Neuro Developmental Team (for children with significant neurodevelopmental problems including ASD), Symbol (for Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (for young people with severe and enduring mental health problems) and ARTs (for young offenders).

In addition the Paediatric Liaison Service offers a service to children with psychological problems associated with chronic health conditions and the Child Well-Being Practitioners Team and Mental Health in School's Team who offer low intensity intervention to CYP who have mild to moderate Depression, Anxiety or Behavioural Problems.

The Horizon Team offers core CAMHS interventions for children and young people aged 5-18 years who present with moderate to severe complex mental health difficulties.

The team are based at the award winning Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford.

The team values quality improvement practice, staff wellbeing initiatives, patient involvement initiatives and has a strong commitment to providing an inclusive and equitable service to our local population.

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide psychological/ CBT assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Horizon Team.
To provide culturally appropriate services and to promote equality and access to all.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To act as care coordinator for a full caseload, taking responsibility for initiating care planning and reviewing care plans and outcomes, offering collaborative care coordination and coordinating / attending meetings appropriate professional network meetings as required.
To support the Duty Services we offer to children and young people accessing the Horizon team.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the Horizon Teamand to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable serv