Main area Clinical Psychologist; CBT Therapist; Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist; Systemic Family Therapist; Counselling Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (we have a total of 1.55 sessions to offer so these can be split between a full time and part time, or all part time roles) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-3055
Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern Health Centre Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 01/05/2025 23:59
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Job overview
We have 1.55 WTE fixed term sessions available within the CAMHS Therapies Team (CTT) and The Community CAMHS Schools Service. These jobs are suitable for part time working and may work well with other sessions across Islington CAMHS depending on candidate applications and service needs.
We are looking for proactive, creative and skilled colleagues to join a combination of our Schools and CTT, depending on interest and experience. The successful applicant(s) will be passionate about both clinic based and community working, promoting emotional well-being through evidence based practice, accessible service provision and about improving health and wellbeing outcomes for some of the most vulnerable families in our borough. Some experience of working in a CAMHS service and school settings is desirable.
We are committed to providing a service that is representative of our local community and welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are also a borough that values a trauma informed approach to our work and supporting our staff.
Main duties of the job
The post will involve delivering evidence-based interventions within the CAMHS Therapies Team and the Schools Team.
The CAMHS Therapies Team provides mental health assessment and treatment to children & young people, and their families, where there is a significant concern about their emotional or psychological well-being. These may be diagnosable mental health conditions that are often severe and enduring. The team offers evidence based treatments including CBT, Child Psychotherapy, IPT-A and Family Therapy. It is a vibrant multi-disciplinary team, with regular team and case discussion meetings, individual and group supervision spaces with senior clinicians, and opportunities for joint working.
Every school in Islington has a CAMHS clinician attending weekly or fortnightly.
In the Schools Team, the post holder will be joining a well-established integrated multidisciplinary mental health team. Islington has a CAMHS clinician attached to all Islington's primary and secondary schools. The team offers assessment and treatment to young people, their parents and carers, as well as indirect work such as support, consultation and training to education colleagues. We have been working closely with our education and Local Authority partners for over 20 years and are proud to provide a highly valued, comprehensive offer to local schools. The Schools Team is a supportive and friendly working environment offering fortnightly multidisciplinary meetings, regular supervision, direct support from senior clinicians and termly CPD opportunities.
Person specification
education/qualifications
* Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, CBT Therapy, counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP/BABCP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies.
Skills and abilities
* Skills & Abilities in generic and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of children up to 18 years of age and their families.
* Ability to work autonomously to engage hard to reach families providing an assessment and treatment service within community settings.
* Skills in the assessment of clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.
* Skills in the flexible use of evidence-based intervention and management of children/young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties, their families and carers.
* Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in effectively managing a clinical caseload, completing outcomes measures routinely, updating clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements.
* Skills in screening for, assessing and working with children, young people and families with neurodiversity (ADHD and ASC).
Knowledge and experience
* Experience of providing a culturally sensitive therapeutic service to young people and families in the community.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
* Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.
* Knowledge of or training in trauma-informed approaches with children and young people.
* Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
* Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment.
* Experience of working clinically in community settings e.g. with children’s centres and schools to meet the mental health needs of CYP.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form
* Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
* Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes
* Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
* If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If you require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
* Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
* Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk.
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation.
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name Sian Barnett Job title Sian Barnett - CAMHS Schools team manager Email address sian.barnett@nhs.net Telephone number 0203 316 1824
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