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Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

The postholder will be co-lead of the multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities sub-team, embedded within the Harrow CAMH Service. The Learning Disabilities team delivers high-quality, evidence-based and effective psychological care to individuals with moderate to severe learning disabilities with co-occurring mental health and behavioural difficulties. The role also includes the provision of specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice, and consultation on children and young people's psychological care. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. The postholder will utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The postholder will provide high-level clinical leadership to the LD team, working closely with the Consultant Psychiatrist co-lead. The postholder will be responsible for the development of opportunities to work alongside services involved in the children and young people to co-produce creative activities and person-centred care plans. Embracing new ways of working will be key to respond to the needs and aspirations of the children and young people we serve.

Main duties of the job

o To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to children with learning disabilities and their families across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

o To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service area.

o To provide supervision and training to others, both within Clinical Psychology and the CAMHS LD Team and external partners to the service, working with the client group.

o To liaise and consult with other health care professionals, both within and external to the team, including Paediatricians, Physiotherapists, OT's, Psychiatrists, Speech and

Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Specialist Teachers, Children's Social Care Workers, voluntary sector groups and others.

About us

The Harrow CAMH service is based at Ash Tree Clinic in South Harrow. The team is well established and is staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work as well as Positive Behaviour Support. Harrow CAMHS consists of four main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team, and; Learning Disabilities Team. The post holder will hold the role of Sub-Team Lead for the Harrow CAMHS LD Team. The post holder may also be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g., special schools).

The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist Harrow CAMHS

Grade: Band 8A

Hours: 22.5 hours per week / 0.6 WTE (Permanent)

Salary: Agenda for Change

Location: Harrow CAMHS, South Harrow

In order to meet the needs of the Trusts service, you may be required from time to time to work outside your normal place of work. The Trust reserves the right to change your normal place of work to any other location within the Trust.

Responsible to: Lead Psychologist

Accountable to: Team Manager

Key Relationships: Members of the multidisciplinary Harrow CAMHS Learning Disability Pathway. Other Sub-teams in Harrow CAMHS. Harrow Council 0-25 Disability team and Harrow Special Education Needs Schools, SENDCO, SENDAS, Other team members, including, where applicable, the principal team psychologist and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for the care of children and young people with moderate-severe learning disability, autism and/or mental health.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Training should include specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
  • HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
  • Training in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) or Applied Behaviour Analysis models

Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice especially relevant to complex CAMHS. In particular: o Research o CYP-IAPT Therapy Training o Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) o ADOS-2
  • Recent Safeguarding children training
  • Post-qualification training in Supervision of Clinical Psychologists

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problemsthat 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 assessment and intervention with children and young people with learning disabilities and extreme challenging behaviours

Desirable

  • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
  • Experience of working with other agencies
  • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
  • Experience of providing adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other therapiesto young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disabilities
  • Experience of working with interpreters

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
  • Substantive knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, in particular as applied to complex problems including cognitive behavioural methods.
  • Substantive knowledge of the theoretical evidence base for understanding, formulating and providing interventions for mental health concerns experienced by children and young people
  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Well-developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
  • Substantive experience of assessing mental health risk and safeguarding concerns

Desirable

  • Knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with learning disabilities
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
  • Knowledge of CAMHS legislation
  • Knowledge and experience of research methodology
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
  • Experience of planning and delivery group treatments

Personal

Essential

  • Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
  • Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
  • Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
  • Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ash Tree Clinic -Harrow CAMHS

322-326 Northolt Road

South Harrow

HA2 8EQ


Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)

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