Principal Clinical Psychologist Bromley CAMHS NDLD Team
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Bromley CAMHS Outcomes Clinical Lead. This post will lead on further embedding the use of a clinical outcomes-led approach across Bromley CAMHS and take forward the CYP-IAPT principles into Bromley CAMHS services. The post-holder will work closely with other CAMHS borough Outcomes leads, the cross-borough Clinical Outcomes Group, the Bromley operational and clinical leads, and report into the Bromley CAMHS Leadership Group. Developing strong relationships with team managers and clinical leads to support clinical outcomes will be a key part of this role. The role will involve leading addressing issues affecting engagement and reporting. This will include developing and delivering induction and training packages, ensuring that services have access to support with clinical outcomes work via their local Assistant Psychologists, and meeting local and national reporting requirements, to support service development and quality assurance.
Main duties of the job
This post is based in the multidisciplinary NDLD team in Bromley CAMHS. The team provides specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for children, young people and their families with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to co-morbid mental health difficulties. The NDLD team works closely with education, social care and other agencies within the network to support young people.
The role provides senior clinical leadership, working closely with NDLD leadership colleagues and operational management to support all aspects of multidisciplinary CAMHS work. The postholder has specific responsibility for psychological therapies and outcomes delivery and leading quality initiatives within the pathway.
Bromley CAMHS is in the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs-based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Bromley.
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
1. To lead, manage and plan the delivery of outcomes measurement and reporting across all teams in Bromley CAMHS.
2. To lead on the operational and clinical use of POD in Bromley CAMHS as an electronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHS outcomes lead to support POD development and adaptation of processes where required.
3. To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to clinicians for their utilisation of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
4. To provide specialist outcomes focused supervision to Assistant psychologists working within teams to support and improve the use of outcome measures, providing feedback within teams and in the assimilation of data to be fed-back through a variety of means and in different settings.
5. To lead on the assimilation and appropriate presentation of outcomes data, including report writing for presentation in a variety of forums.
6. To manage the workload of the data collecting group. To report on progress of data collection and quality to Operational and Clinical leads, and CAMHS-wide and contribute to Directorate level Annual Plan and produce other reports as requested by Commissioners.
7. To be responsible to the Bromley CAMHS Service Manager for the monitoring and implementation of clinical standards in relation to clinical outcomes.
8. To develop and support initiatives to improve the meaningful use of outcome measures across the service.
9. To deliver highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions as a senior clinician within CAMHS, supporting on clinical pathways and service developments as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology as accredited by the HCPC.
* Current Professional Registration.
* Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision.
* Further training and CPD in research/audit.
* Completion of further post-graduate training and practice in evidence-based psychological intervention for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorder and/or learning disability and co-morbid mental health problems.
* Completion of further training in specialist neurodevelopmental assessment (e.g. ADOS, ADI).
Experience
* Significant post qualification clinical experience (minimum 4 years) within multi-disciplinary and/or multi-agency services for children and young people.
* Experience of undertaking leadership roles.
* Experience of supervising APs / trainees, having completed the relevant supervisory training.
* Experience of providing teaching and training to practitioners and other professional groups.
* Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, and/or audit and service evaluation projects.
* Experience of working with young people presenting with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning disabilities, with co-morbid moderate-severe mental health difficulties, supporting high levels of risk.
* Experience of supervising qualified clinical psychologists.
* Experience of participation in recruitment.
Other
* Ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary and cross-borough services, contributing to effective service functioning and joint working.
* Ability to think and act strategically and to oversee the continuing implementation of practice and system change.
* Experience / Knowledge of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership.
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.
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