8A Psychological Therapist: Clinical/Counselling/Psychotherapist
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an 8a role as a Psychological Therapist (open to all disciplines: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Child Psychotherapy/Family Therapist) within our CAMHS South multidisciplinary team, delivering a high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families.
CAMHS South is a caring, supportive and hard-working team which prides itself on working creatively, innovatively and inclusively. We welcome all new staff to the team with a robust induction process to equip them for the work they will take forwards and promote leadership at all levels within the team.
The post holder will be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children and their families/carers/networks who have mental health issues. They will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing interventions in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT. They will undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
They will act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
Job Responsibilities
To deliver a high-quality service working with adolescents and their families/carers and to professionals from other organisations to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service need. The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT.
The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own and other professions. The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development. The post holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
* Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
* Post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
* Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
* Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
Experience and Knowledge
* Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity.
* Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups.
* Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children.
* Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment.
* Good presentation and teaching skills.
* Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
* Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
Communication Skills
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families.
* Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Positive problem-solving approach.
Physical Skills
* Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).
* IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook.
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.
Job Locations
CAMHS South Peace Children's Centre Watford WD17 3EW
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year, per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time
Reference Number
367-CYP-8579-B
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