Highly Specialist Psychotherapist/ Psychological Therapist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for a creative and energetic systemically informed Clinical Psychologist/Family therapist/Psychotherapist with CAMHS experience to join the CAMHS Assertive Outreach Team.
You will work in a multi-disciplinary team contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessments and treatments. You will be responsible for a clinical caseload: assessing, care planning and offering interventions for children and young people with support from the multi-disciplinary team.
Emphasis will be on improving access and outcomes by supporting colleagues to co-ordinate the care of young people presenting with challenging and complex needs, a range of diagnosis, disorganised support networks and an increased risk of harm to self and others who likely have a history of difficult engagement with services which makes them increasingly vulnerable to admission, risk events and crises.
The role involves offering time limited psychological informed crisis management planning to the service user, carer and network of services. The post holder would be expected to guide the work of other mental health professionals with an emphasis on consultation alongside the service user, including coordinating networks of services. Experience and commitment to engaging and working with families across cultures is essential.
There will be opportunities for joint working with a range of professionals within the team and across the service, for delivering teaching and consultation.
Main duties of the job
1. To contribute to the development of this new innovative project aimed at improving access to CAMHS for Children and Young people in partnership with their family and network.
2. To provide a highly specialist systemically informed psychological interventions including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
3. To enable other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
4. To think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of clinical skills in working alongside others to support a complex range of service users and their network.
5. To facilitate network meetings and provide clinical supervision, training and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist.
6. To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
7. To work as an autonomous professional within registration 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.
8. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
9. To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
About us
Southwark CAMHS is responding to the overwhelming evidence base about the impact of inequalities on wellbeing by restating its commitment to anti-racism and addressing long standing inequalities of access to mental health service.
Southwark CAMHS has developed an Assertive Outreach Service alongside the Adolescent Team and now has CAMHS clinicians embedded in YOS and SILLS to support some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people.
The Assertive Outreach Service is a dynamic and supportive team including psychiatry, clinical psychology, nursing, creative therapies and occupational therapy. We provide assessments and evidence-based therapies to children and young people with complex mental health difficulties including depression, emerging psychosis, OCD, PTSD and social anxiety.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist systemically informed psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for Young people where the identified client has complex mental health needs and may require risk support, in collaboration with their families, professional and social networks.
2. To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers, networks or families of referred clients when required.
3. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
4. To act as care/CPA co-ordinator taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.
5. To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
6. To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary.
7. To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred client.
Person Specification
Education/Training with CAMHS experience
* Clinical Psychologist/ Family Therapist/ Psychotherapist with CAMHS experience.
* Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, or with UKCP as a Family Therapist.
* Experience of working with service users that mainstream services have struggled to engage.
* Knowledge and experience in risk management in relation to self-harm and harm to others across a range of diagnostic groups.
* Experience of providing specialist assessment, formulation and interventions with clients across a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
* Experience of delivering Specialist interventions (such as Dialectical behavioural therapy, Attachment Based FT; AMBIT; Mentalisation Based Therapy; Open Dialogue...) or willingness to be trained in this model.
* Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects.
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.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
334-CLI-6948726
Job locations
Mapother House, Maudsley Complex
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