Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

We are looking for an 8A Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, to work in our warm and friendly Wandsworth Tier 3 CAMHS service. The CAMHS service now resides within new and transformed CAMHS buildings on the Springfield hospital site.

If you want to work locally and/or work in a service with excellent travel links, with an employer that offers flexible and agile working with great development and carer progression opportunities, then this may be the role you!

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a Highly Specialist Counselling or Clinical Psychologist with experience in supervision, leadership and service development and in-depth knowledge assessing and treating children and young people in community settings.

The post is located in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Directorate of 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 wider, regional and national catchment areas.

Community CAMH services efficiently and effectively deliver child mental health assessment and treatment according to the principles that underpin the Care and Partnership Approach and the Young Persons Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) initiative.

The service is delivered via a number of locality based and specialist teams. The service includes dedicated devices for Eating Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Assessment, Complex Learning Difficulties, Multi-Systemic Therapy and Emergency Care.

Wandsworth Tier 3 CAMHS supports children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs and their parents/ carers. The multi-disciplinary team comprises of Psychiatry, Family Therapy, Nursing, Positive Behaviour Support, Occupational Therapy, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Clinical and Counselling Psychology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key aspects of the role include:

• To provide highly specialist Clinical or Counselling psychology services to children, young people and their families / carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
• To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people and families on the caseload.
• To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
• To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees’ PADRs.
• Within supervision, team meetings and other forums, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
• To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
• To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
• To provide specific leadership in one or two service areas (e.g. groups; ROMs; PPI; E&D). Area to be agreed/confirmed once in post.