Psychologist, Family Therapist/Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Come and work for NELFT's Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), and be part of one of the UK's most innovative healthcare Trusts.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical psychologist, family therapist, or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in Thanet CYPMHS. Driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), the service provides the latest in evidence-based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people, and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
You will:
1. Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within CYPMHS.
2. Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
3. Undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate.
4. Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
5. Provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians throughout the CYPMHS team.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g., psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist).
Job role
* Full-time post only.
* Able to work across both localities - Folkestone and Dover.
* Role requires being on site, home working at Manager's discretion and needs of the locality.
* To be able to lead MDT, senior meeting etc.
Qualification and experience
* To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g., HCPC, BABCP, UKCP, AFT, ACP).
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
* Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
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.
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