Clinical Lead Neurodevelopmental Pathway
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area AHP Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) Job ref 395-BD034-25-A
Site Child & Family Consultation Service Town Barking Salary £62,215 - £72,293 plus HCAS per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/04/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. clinical psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT).
The post-holder will provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in CAMHS. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians throughout the CAMHS team. They will clinically supervise, and line manage the (8a) postgraduate qualified psychological practitioner in the local CAMHS team. The post holder will offer extensive expert consultations across the CAMHS team. The post holder will be accountable for their own professional actions and will work within professional ethics & Trust Policies as a specialist.
The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the B&D CAMHS team.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
2. To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
3. To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
4. To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on CAMHS cases to other multidisciplinary staff within CAMHS, including junior medical staff.
5. To contribute to audit and research.
6. To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.
7. To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CAMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.
8. To clinically supervise, and line manage the (8a) post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner in the local CAMHS team.
9. The post holder will offer extensive expert consultations across the CAMHS team.
10. The post holder will support other pathways in the absence of other pathway leads.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist)
Knowledge
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in CAMHS.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
* Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
* Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research design.
Skills
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients.
* Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
* Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals.
* Ability to tolerate anxiety.
* Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.
* Ability to conduct audit and take part in Quality improvement projects.
Experience
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
* Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs.
* Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
* Extensive experience of multidisciplinary working in eating disorders services for children and adolescents.
* Experience of carrying out generic and specific assessments in CAMHS.
* Extensive experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old - presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum.
* Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings.
* Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals.
* Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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