Job overview
This is a full-time Band 7 post in the Neuro-developmental and Learning Disability team (NDLD, 1.0 WTE) in Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) CAMHS. The post-holder will join a well-established experienced large and thriving multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in the NDLD team. They will be provided with high-quality clinical psychology supervision from a Clinical Psychologist and attend team meetings and case discussions within the NDLD team. The NDLD team is embedded within the wider Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS, which also consists of the Adolescent team, Children and Families team and the Tier 2 Community CAMHS team. The H&F CAMHS service is a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team based at 48 Glenthorne Road, London W6 0LS. Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS is part of the West London NHS Trust CAMHS and Developmental Service Line which also covers services in Ealing and Hounslow. In addition, the post-holder will join the thriving psychology team based within H&F CAMHS. There will be good opportunities for CPD and development within the team and trust and also externally and there are weekly academic sessions alongside several other supports. We are looking for a skilled, hard-working and enthusiastic psychologist who is passionate about delivering high-quality and effective services to children and young people and their families.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will offer specialist psychological and neurodevelopmental assessments (including cognitive assessments and ADHD and ASD assessments), and psychological interventions and support to children, young people and their families presenting with neurodevelopmental difficulties (such as ADHD and ASD) and/or Learning Disabilities and comorbid emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties in H&F CAMHS. They will work closely alongside other MDT members and multi-agency colleagues (offering advice and consultation where appropriate), such as social workers, speech and language and occupational therapists and education colleagues to deliver a high-quality service to children and their families in the CAMHS clinic, specialist and mainstream schools, social care and community settings and carry out home visits as appropriate. Additionally, the postholder will adhere to following evidence based practice where appropriate, using suitable clinical outcome measures, and will support service user participation within the service. They will also be part of the Duty and Urgent Slot rota within the team. The post-holder will also be responsible for the clinical supervision and line management of any pre-qualified psychologists or psychological professionals within the team. They will also contribute to clinical governance and service development in ways described in this document.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups including children with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health difficulties, adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children with challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High-level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of leadership, team and service development
Desirable
- Experience of Specialist neurodevelopmental Assessment such as ADHD, ASD and/or ADOS assessments
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of working with other agencies including education and social care.
- Experience of assessment and intervention with clients presenting with Neurodivergence
- Experience of working with children/young people and their families with special educational needs, neurodevelopmental difficulties, learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, and co-morbid mental health difficulties
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas.
- Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical / Counselling) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
- Clinical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
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