South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
The integrated care board (ICB) has invested in the development of a new Community Intensive Support pilot for children and young people (CYP) with Autism residing in Merton, Wandsworth, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond. The Dynamic Support Team, a new pilot service, is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers specialist intensive interventions for Children and Young People already under community CAMHS and on the Dynamic Support register.
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced, and committed Specialist Practitioner to join the Dynamic Support Team and to be at the forefront of developing the service alongside the rest of the team.
You will work with highly skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting home and community-based care, facilitating safe discharge, and reducing young people's length of stay, should admission become necessary. It is essential to be committed to safe and effective team working. The role includes individual, family, and group work and the provision of telephone support to young people.
The pilot will help shape an effective and consistent model of care in South-West London, which aims to bridge the gap between community services and inpatient care, whilst also strengthening longer-term local services for autistic young people.
The service operates 5 days a week, 9-5pm.
Main duties of the job
* To be a member of the Dynamic Support Team, working closely with the multi-disciplinary Dynamic Support Team to provide specialist assessment, interventions, and consultations to a small group of young people, families, carers, agencies, or services around the young person.
* To provide highly specialist clinical services to a small number of children and young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families/carers across all sectors of care - providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
* Providing telephone support in a crisis, supporting young people and families at home to manage periods of distress and upset, and to develop positive ways of managing and coping.
* Co-facilitating therapeutic groups or activities.
* The post holder will also work very closely with families/carers to help support and provide education in managing and responding to a young person's needs.
* To complete audit, quality improvement, and research.
* To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee and junior staff in the team.
* This role involves independent daily travel across South West London and involves some lone working, within a close supervision structure.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history, and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world-class mental health facilities.
The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. However, please be mindful that AOT provides a service across the whole 5 boroughs of South West London and provides predominantly home-based care.
Job responsibilities
* To provide highly specialist assessment and intervention services to a small number of children and young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families/carers across all sectors of care, providing evidence-based assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
* To carry a caseload and coordinate care for those children, young people, and families on the caseload.
* To provide outreach work within various locations, including but not limited to inpatient settings, schools, homes, community placements, and local CAMHS districts (across South West London) as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
* To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific treatment modalities and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
* Within supervision and team meetings, to support and promote the use of outcome measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
* To seek opportunities to include young people's perspectives in service delivery and development throughout the pilot duration.
* To work with the Clinical Service Manager to support the work of a specific team or service area.
* To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan for a small caseload of children and young people with ASD.
* To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* To act as mental health care coordinator, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including the children, their carers, referring agents, and others involved in the network of care. This includes organizing case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.
* To collect and evaluate data to support reporting back on KPIs as part of the pilot.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified clinician registered with the appropriate professional body (e.g., HCPC for Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech and Language Therapists; NMC for Registered Mental Health Nurses and Behaviour Analysts Registered with UKSBA/ Certification with Behaviour Analyst Certification Board (BACB).
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
* Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
* Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced-based approach.
* Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
* Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
* To have completed training in autism-specific assessments (e.g., ADOS-2, ADI-R).
* Significant experience in a senior professional role band 7 or above.
Experience
* At least two years of qualified experience in working with a range of mental health settings including with autistic people and young people whose behaviour challenges services.
* Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with individuals with autistic spectrum disorders.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in children and adolescence with neurodevelopmental conditions.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 carrying a caseload of service users with complex and diverse needs in a mental health setting.
* Experience in writing specialist reports within the respective discipline.
* Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in child and adolescent neurodevelopmental CAMHS.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
* Experience of conducting postdoctoral research, audit, or service evaluation projects.
* Experience of a range of specialist behavioural assessment and interventions with clients with ASD whose behaviour challenges services, across the full range of care settings.
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.
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs.
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