Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated clinical or counselling psychologist to join Camden Parents’ Wellbeing Service (CPWS) to provide systemically-informed psychological interventions to parents and carers of young children across Camden's children's centres.

CPWS was established in 2006 in acknowledgement of the adverse impact of poor parental mental health upon children’s wellbeing. We are a small virtual team of psychologists offering psychological therapy interventions to individual parents/carers, in a range of different mental health and local authority settings in Camden. The team also works to raise awareness and understanding of parental mental health through consultations, training, reflective practice and supervision. We are a friendly, supportive team and highly valued by the services in which we are located.  Recently, to strengthen our existing practice, we commissioned bespoke training in Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) from the Anna Freud Centre and so the successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time in the development of the service.

Main duties of the job

To provide a clinical/counselling psychology service on behalf of CPWS to parents accessing the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (CAMHS for under 5s) and/or the Integrated Early Years Services in Camden (i.e. located in children's centres).

Services offered by the post holder will include: providing highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment using evidence-based, NICE recommended interventions for depression and anxiety and related conditions, to the individual, family and group formats; supervising, offering advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team, family workers, health visitors, qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists and to other clinicians. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.

The post holder will become actively involved in staff training and service education/training initiatives and utilise research skills for service audit, policy and service development within the service.

The post-holder will be expected to manage their own time and base themselves across different sites according to the needs of the service and the limits of their 0.4 WTE working pattern.  The Whole Family Team is based primarily at 5 Pancras Square and in addition there are five children's centres across Camden.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post is linked to the Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism (Complex CAMHS for under 5s) and Integrated Early Years Services (IEYS), and based across Camden Children's Centres. The successful post-holder will be passionate and knowledgeable about parental mental health, systemic practice, service development, and nurturing the development of trainee and more junior psychologists. They will also be comfortable providing consultations and training about parental mental health to staff within their partnership teams.