Job Summary
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.
Please see our CAMHS Mission Statement attached to this vacancy.
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.
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.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address: Northern Health Centre, 580 Holloway Road, London, N7 6LB
Employer's Website: Whittington NHS Trust
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