Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 14 months (Until 31 March 2026)
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-6704763
Employer: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Croydon University Hospital
Town: Croydon
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum plus HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59
CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (N&S PLS GSTT/Croydon)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links, and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth, and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high-quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognized for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes, and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognizes the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen, and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of psychology services within the Paediatric sickle cell and thalassaemia service at Croydon Health Services. The National and Specialist CAMHS liaison service is seeking to recruit a part-time band 8a Clinical Psychologist to provide an in-reach psychology service to Paediatric sickle cell and thalassaemia services at Croydon Health Services. The position is fixed term, currently until March 2026.
The post holder will be responsible for developing and embedding psychological support to children, young people, and their families under the Paediatric Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Team at Croydon Health Services. This is a new and exciting role, which will be well supported by experienced clinicians based at St Thomas’s and Kings College Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
To provide, develop, and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service in a subspecialty of paediatric liaison to patients under the care of the Paediatric Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia service at Croydon University Hospital and community outreach services.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Multi-Disciplinary Team in a newly created role with the Croydon Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Service. The service operates from a Community Centre on Whitehorse Road and at Croydon University Hospital.
You will be responsible for the provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based intervention for children, adolescents, and their families. Aiming to intervene early through resilience-promoting interventions based on the factors that enable some children to resist and recover from adversity. The psychologist would work with emerging mental health difficulties by providing emotional and practical support through a variety of approaches including therapeutic work, using talking, play, and/or art, family work, liaising with schools, and medical staff, and facilitating peer support.
Working for our organisation
The service operates from a Community Centre on Whitehorse Road and at Croydon University Hospital.
Clinical and managerial support will be provided by the National and Specialist CAMHS Paediatric liaison service which is based at St Thomas hospital.
The team is based at St Thomas hospital, a short walk from Waterloo station and Westminster station.
As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings, or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key aspects of the role include:
* To provide, develop, and ensure the systematic provision of a specialist psychology service/mental health support in a subspecialty of paediatric liaison to patients under the care of the Paediatric Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia service at Croydon Health Services.
* To provide specialist assessment, formulation, and evidence-based intervention for children and adolescents and their families.
* You will manage your own caseload and provide specialist support to families with complex presentations.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent. (A/I)
* Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist. (A/I)
* MSc or PhD qualification in a research area relevant to child and adolescent mental health (A/I)
* Advanced training in systemic therapy (A/I)
Experience
* Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision for a minimum of 3 years (if KSF not yet available) (A/I)
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and families across the age range with a range of presenting problems and across settings including community, outpatient, and clinic settings. (A/I)
* Experience of working within specialist paediatric services. (A/I)
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts. (A/I)
* Experience in delivering therapeutic groups with young people and their families (A/I)
* Experience in delivering family therapy with adolescents (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapeutic intervention for children and adolescents with mental health needs (A/I)
* Evidence of continuing training/professional development (A/I)
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessment and interventions for children with chronic health conditions (A/I)
Skills
* Skills in the use of methods of psychological assessments and intervention in a specialist area. (A/I)
* Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups (A/I)
* Consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups within own service.
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with an appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
* Ability to conduct complex assessments and to formulate an appropriate treatment hierarchy of needs (A/I)
* Strong ability to assess and manage risk and to liaise appropriately with the multi-disciplinary team. (A/I)
Abilities
* Commitment to continuing professional development, to partnership working, and to reflective clinical practice. (A/I)
* Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentation in public, professional, and academic meetings.
The Trust is committed to providing services that embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, welcoming applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity while promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice.
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment.
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Please note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* Once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* If you are successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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