Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

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

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.

Kingston Getting Help is a newly established service that supports children, young people and their families with moderate mental health difficulties. Our multi-disciplinary service is made up of disciplines including psychology, family therapy, CBT therapists and psychotherapy.

We have a range of CAMHS services within the Trust including Getting More Help/Tier 3 CAMHS, Mental Health in Schools Teams, an Adolescent Outreach Team, an adolescent unit, Deaf CAMHS services, Learning Disabilities and Youth Offending CAMHS teams as well as a DBT service and a range of eating disorders services.

As well as regular individual supervision to support your development, we offer a number of opportunities for support and training.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Kingston Child and Adolescent Mental Health Getting Help service (Tier 2 CAMHS) provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.

The service also includes a Single Point of Access team which manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Kingston and Richmond boroughs where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties. The Kingston Getting Help Service and the SPA work in close collaboration.

Kingston Getting Help is a multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families presenting to the service with moderate mental health problems.

The Community CAMHS Directorate is located within South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services  to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond as well as providing a range of specialist services to a set of wider, regional and national catchment areas.