To join the multi-disciplinary CAMH Service in the delivery of mental health care to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.
To provide specialist psychological and/or mental health input to children and young people and their families.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy including specialist assessments for neurodevelopmental concerns and learning disabilities (e.g. ASD, ADHD).
To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines and to individuals external to CAMHS working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other professionals and to offer supervision as agreed per job plan.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the areas served by the services.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of one's psychological practice.
Main duties of the job
To undertake generic and specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments of children and families referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests (including WISC-V, ADOS-2, 3Di, ABAS etc.), self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, including frontline workers in health, education, Social Services and the voluntary sector.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural disorders in children, young people and families, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for developing and implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses and taking account of changing needs during the course of delivering the intervention.
About us
Hillingdon CAMHS is based at Minet Clinic, Uxbridge. The team is well established and is staffed by a 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, positive behaviour support, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work. Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team, Neurodevelopmental Team, Enhanced Treatment Team, Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS for children looked after). The post holder may 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. 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
In providing care to clients to liaise and work with family members and others involved in the clients care, including CAMHS colleagues, frontline workers in health, education, Social Services, inpatients services and the voluntary sector.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological and/or mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To contribute to and implement policy changes and developments within the area served by the team/service, including the 0-25 SEND code of practice (2016).
To participate in the clinical Duty rota and initial CAMHS assessment clinics/specialist assessments as required.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
To contribute knowledge, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.
The post holder will undertake all work sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds and with sensitivity to issues of power, gender, educational attainment, sexuality, disability, class and age.
Person Specification
Education 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.
* HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical Psychologist.
Desirable
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice especially relevant to complex CAMHS. In particular: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ADOS-2.
* Post-qualification training in Supervision.
Previous Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical behaviour that challenges.
* Supervised experience of evidence-based treatment in relation to children with learning disabilities and associated mental health concerns.
* Substantive post-qualification experience of working within a multidisciplinary specialist CAMHS team and of providing specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
* Substantive post-qualification experience of delivering evidence-based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts.
Desirable
* Experience of teaching and/or training to professionals within and outside of health settings.
* 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.
Desirable
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of other specialised psychological CAMHS or family treatments.
* Knowledge of CAMHS legislation.
* Experience of planning and delivery group treatments.
* 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.
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 multi-disciplinary 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.
* Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.
* Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times. Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working.
* Able to prioritise own workload and meet performance requirements for the role.
Other
Essential
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
* Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior. In particular: understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the post. Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedures.
* Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust. Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health department to perform the duties of the post.
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Minet Clinic
Avondale Road
Hayes
UB3 3NR
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