Specialist Clinician: Psychotherapist/Psychologist/Social Worker/Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Specialist Clinician Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 Sessions in NCCT & 5 Sessions in SCCT) Job ref 260-TP-854
Site Tavistock Centre Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 23/02/2025 23:59
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an experienced, motivated and flexible band 7 Specialist Clinician. You will work across the North Camden Community Team (NCCT) and South Camden Community Team (SCCT), in a dual role offering assessment and clinical interventions to young people aged 0-18 and their parents. You will join two large teams consisting of Clinical, Educational and Counselling Psychologists, CBT therapists, Family and Systemic Psychotherapists, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses and Consultant Psychiatrists.
Main duties of the job
This role is open to applications from Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Systemic Family Psychotherapists, Social Workers and Nurses. The successful applicant will join their respective discipline, be supervised by a senior clinician and hold a treatment caseload from within their discipline. The successful candidate will also offer CAMHS assessments and consultation and outreach to schools.
The post is 0.5 WTE (2.5 days) in each team. Thursday is an essential working day.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
* Registration with HCPC as a Psychologist, ACP as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, UKCP as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist, registration as a Social Worker, registration as a Mental Health Nurse
* Further training related to mental health interventions with 0-18s
Experience
* Evidence of clinical experience of working with relevant client population (Child and Adolescent Mental Health 0-18s).
* A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
* A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
* Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
* Expertise of managing and treating the client group 0-18s
* Some experience of clinical supervision
* Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
* Some experience of working with schools or community based clinical work
Skills
* High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
* Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
* Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
* Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
* Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
* Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
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.
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.
Name Charlotte Cavanagh Job title Principal Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist Email address CCavanagh@tavi-port.nhs.uk Telephone number 0208 938 2232
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