Main area: Psychological therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)
Job ref: 395-BD027-25
Site: Child & Family Consultation Service
Town: Barking
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Plus HCAS per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/04/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. nurse, clinical psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, UKCP, ACP) or a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. mental health/ Learning disability nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. NMC, Social Work England). Plus an additional post-graduate qualification in either psychological therapies (e.g. CYP IAPT post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy) or other post-graduate qualification relevant to CAMHS and mental health.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within their professional sphere of expertise in B&D Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS), Front Door Team. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement and the extensive clinical supervision of junior clinicians.
They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the CAMHS team. The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider education, mental health, wellbeing and learning disability support services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the CAMHS team.
The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering and supervising a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term input and specialist behavioural and psychological treatments. They will be responsible for all specialist assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise within CAMHS practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist service for children and adolescents with mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
* To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
* To undertake a range of highly specialist clinical work, urgent assessment work, parenting support and specialist cases.
* To provide extensive expert supervision and consultation on cases to other multi-disciplinary staff within B&D CAMHS, including junior medical staff where appropriate to do so.
* To contribute to quality improvement project, audit and research.
* To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures adapted for the client group
* To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework B&D CAMHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.
* To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. clinical/counselling psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified healthcare professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist)
Knowledge
* Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access Electronic diary, e-mail and office management systems
* Excellent knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
* Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Skills
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients
* Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation
* Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information
* Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor.
* Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work.
* Ability to undertake quality improvement projects and audits
Experience
* Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.
* Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children
* Experience of carrying out generic and specialist assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings
* Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with the client group within the service and within related agencies.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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