Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to for an experienced and innovative Band 8a (1.0wte) clinician to work with children and families in Wandsworth historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of a CAMHS provision based within Wandsworth Borough Pupil Referral Units (PRU- CAMHS).

Wandsworth PRU-CAMHS is an established and valued service covering Wandsworth’s Primary (Victoria Drive) and Secondary age (Francis Barber) PRUs. This role would be joining a team of Psychologists and rotating Trainee and assistants. The team have recently agreed to implement a “Hub” model, allowing staff to work across primary and secondary age sites, enabling joint management of referrals, leadership responsibility and service development. This change has been made in response to practitioner feedback.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be supporting children who present with a range of needs and will be responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions, as well as consultation, training and reflective practice to school staff alongside co-ordinating multi-agency networks based on psychological formulations. The post holder will support and co-lead on the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRUs

The PRU-CAMHS team have close links with Wandsworth Youth Justice Service CAMHS team and the wider Wandsworth CAMHS provision and will be supervised by a trust Professional Lead with responsibility for Wandsworth Pupil Referral Unit CAMH Services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will support the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRU sites. The appointee will offer trauma-informed assessment, intervention, consultation, and training to young people and staff across the PRU and partner agencies.

The role requires advanced skills in psychological assessment and formulation, with an understanding of how to incorporate challenging behaviour, additional learning needs, neurodivergence, and a range of social and contextual information within a trauma-informed framework, as well as the ability to share this and recommendations with other multi-agency colleagues.

The appointee will also work closely with young people’s families and their wider networks, which includes partnership agencies such as children’s social care, youth work provisions, and youth justice service. This aspect of the role is vital in ensuring appropriate linked-up working to contextually safeguard young people and their families.

This role requires the appointee to work within a multiagency context and hold skills in autonomously performing their role in a school/college setting whilst providing an offer of consultation and training across the Francis Barber provision.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.