A Vacancy at Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust.
To provide a specialist clinicalpsychology service to clients served by theBarnet CAMHS Assertive Outreach Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will provide advice and consultation to non-psychologists in the service on psychological interventions, for example, being involved in delivering a CBT supervision group.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists.
The post holder will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence based and evidence-informed care pathways.
The post holder will be based in the Barnet CAMHS team premises at Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital with other team members and they will have access to support from the team administrators.
The work is with children, young people and families who present with high risk to themselves and/or others and who will be difficult to engage in standard outpatient services. The team will provide rapid, flexible and accessible services to address urgent and acute problems facing children and young people.
A capacity to work with emotionally intense, demanding and challenging situations is needed. Home visits and outreach work is the main part of the work.
The post holder will need to employ frequent and intense concentration during their work.
On occasions the post holder may be required to use their own vehicle to attend meetings or as part of the therapeutic process and outreach offer.
There is a need to use effective and efficient keyboard skills in the recording of clinical information and in communicating with colleagues.
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 fall 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.
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Oct 2024