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Site Kaleidoscope Town Catford Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum Incl. of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 14/01/2025 23:59
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 provide high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already 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 get 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 recognises 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 as 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
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced CAMHS clinical practitioner/psychologist with an interest and specialism in working with young people who are neurodiverse and their families. This is a senior post and you will have the opportunity to work clinically with the client group, providing assessment, formulation and intervention plans/therapy, as well as supporting colleagues within the team and wider service.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide highly specialist assessment and intervention, and monitor outcomes for young people within a multidisciplinary Tier 3 CAMHS team. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
2. To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist for children and young people with learning disability.
3. To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
4. To work as an autonomous professional within Professional Body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
5. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
6. Where appropriate, to provide professional leadership of a discipline.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Service Responsibilities
1. Lead, with other senior colleagues, on delivering and maintaining the quality of clinical care, good multi-professional practice, inter-disciplinary work and interagency liaison.
2. Manage clinical risk across the service, with other senior staff, and participate in an on-call/duty system for risk management and emergency cases as required.
3. Contribute to the introduction and monitoring the performance of new clinical systems for accepting new referrals into treatment, delivering appropriate care pathways and discharging patients from treatment.
4. Contribute to ensuring that evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used within and across the teams to meet the needs of the client groups and ensure that staff are adequately trained and supervised to deliver these.
5. Contribute to monitoring the quality of CAMHS assessments and treatments conducted by CAMHS clinicians within the teams and the clinician’s skills in diagnosing mental disorders and formulating care plans.
6. Contribute to monitoring and performance management of the clinical standards of practice of identified junior members of staff. Contribute to measuring outcome of treatment within and across teams and make changes when necessary to maximise clinical effectiveness.
7. Supervise case managers and maximise their therapeutic skills across the range of treatments required to treat young people with a moderate to severe learning disability and/or a neurodevelopmental disorder including behavioural treatments and modified CBT interventions.
8. Contribute to the recruitment of a safe and proficient workforce.
Clinical Individual Responsibility
1. Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who require a specialist CAMH service linked with their learning or neurodevelopmental disability. Provide standard and specialist CAMHS clinical assessments; standard and specialist risk assessments to identify and diagnose the cause of mental health, emotional and behavioural problems in children and young people with LD/NDD.
2. Formulate care plans, based on the standard and specialist CAMHS assessment.
3. Carry out the care plan selecting from the appropriate evidence-based interventions and deliver these to a high standard in conjunction with the broad range of CAMHS clinical practice. Conduct individual therapy with the child and work with the parents/carers and family members to enhance their skills to reinforce treatment and increase the resilience factors in their children.
4. Use advanced skills in two or more evidence-based interventions which are generally considered effective in the treatment of this client group.
5. Deliver all interventions in accordance with NICE guidance or recognised good practice.
6. Lead and participate in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies. Provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required including 'witness of fact' court reports where appropriate.
7. Assess safeguarding issues for own cases, provide second opinions for other members of the team, and provide clinical advice to colleagues on referring concerns to Child Protection Teams.
8. Maintain good working relationships and clear lines of communication with all colleagues, professionals, agencies and departments. Develop own skills and advise colleagues on good practices for integrated working.
Healthcare Governance Responsibilities
1. Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of individual clinician and clinical team performance management.
2. Contribute to the ongoing development of clinical governance mechanisms across teams and the process of conducting audits and implementing service improvement as an outcome of these audits.
3. Liaise with service users and carers, to ensure that their experience influences the way in which individual CAMHS clinicians and teams practice.
4. Work with complaints, incidents and Child Protection services inside the Trust and with external agencies (e.g. Safeguarding Boards). This may include contributing to standard supervision of clinical practice, monitoring standards of practice, investigating and producing reports for internal and external inquiries.
Person specification
Qualifications & Registration
* Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy
* First level nursing qualification/registration RMN, RN LD or RSCN
* First level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience or
* First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/learning disability problems
* All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
* Formal training in supervision of other practitioners
* Additional training in therapeutic skills
Experience
* Substantive experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health, including specialist practitioner and clinical performance management work
* Experience of working with young people with a moderate to severe learning disability, with additional mental health problems and case severity from early intervention through to specialist case management.
* Experience of providing professional support for practitioners including supervision, appraisal and recruitment.
* Experience of multi-agency collaboration.
* Experience of training of professionals from a range of mental health and non-mental health professions.
* Experience of health services research, evaluation, and audit, and dissemination through teaching, training and publication.
Knowledge & Skills
* Advanced knowledge of subjects relevant to child mental health and learning disability including two or more evidence-based therapies.
* Sound knowledge of policy and legislation and its implications for the clinical practice and professional management (e.g. Children’s NSF, Children Act; Mental Health Act and London Procedures for Child Protection).
* Proven skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment and case management.
* Able to communicate complex and clinically sensitive information effectively to children and young people, their parents, families, carers and a wide range of lay, professional and academic persons within and outside the NHS orally and in writing.
* High level knowledge of research and policy for child and adolescent mental health conditions associated with learning disability, and associated social care or educational studies relevant to the area of work of the clinical teams.
* Proven skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome 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 and in promoting equality and human rights.
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you 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
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That 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
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be 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
* That 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.
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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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