Site: Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital
Town: Barnet
Salary: £67,950 - £78,028 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/10/2024 23:59
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to join a warm, welcoming and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?
If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Band 8b Psychology lead to work across the Barnet CAMHS Teams based at the Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
* Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.
* Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensuring supervision arrangements are in place for the psychology staff within the borough CAMHS service.
* Lead the monthly Psychology Meeting.
* Deputise for the CAMHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist in their absence.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough service, in collaboration and under the supervision of the Head of Psychological Therapies. Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
Propose and implement policy changes within the borough-based CAMHS service and Trust-wide CAMHS forums.
This post is located within the multidisciplinary CAMHS 0–18 service, delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and interventions to families living within the borough of Barnet.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details, please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
* Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
* Or – postgraduate doctoral level training in counselling psychology – within the remit outlined above.
* Completed recognised clinical / counselling psychology supervisor training.
* Registration with the HCPC.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised area of psychological practice.
EXPERIENCE
* Substantial experience of working as a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in community CAMHS settings.
* Extensive experience of providing psychological therapies to children, young people, and their families with a wide range of mental health problems.
* Experience of working with children, young people and their families/carers and presenting with the full range of clinical severity 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 abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary team/care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training, and consultation.
* Experience of offering clinical supervision to clinical psychologists, clinical psychologists in training, and individuals of other disciplines conducting psychological therapy.
* Experience of assessing and treating children, young people, and their families across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of administration and interpretation of CAMHS psychometric tests/measures including ADOS 2/3Di.
* Experience of the application of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of service development.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychologically based assessment, intervention, and management - frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and 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 design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the psychological therapies’ fields. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children, young people, safeguarding and mental health. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC or other relevant professional body Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies, specifically on relation to specialist clinical areas within child and adolescent services (e.g., children with autistic spectrum disorders, the treatment of OCD/PTSD presentations in this population, etc.)
OTHER
* Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to children, young people, families and 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 behaviour. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Interest in developing and delivering new models of service delivery.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents, e.g. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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