About this role
Job summary
We are currently recruiting for a full time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in our Richmond Tier 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the London Borough of Richmond.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with experience of working in CAMHS to work in a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team to undertake assessments, and deliver interventions with children, young people, their families and the wider network.
Richmond CAMHS is an established Tier 3/Getting More Help service that supports children, young people and their families with moderate to severe mental health difficulties. Our multi-disciplinary service is made up of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, family therapy, nursing, CBT therapists and child psychotherapy.
This role includes 1 working day's provision (0.2 wte; 7.5 hours) as an ERSA (Emotionally Related School Avoidance) CAMHS Clinician within the Kingston & Richmond CAMHS ERSA pathway. This role is to support and enhance the collaborative framework between CAMHS, education & social care for children & young people with an ERSA Plus (persistent & severe) profile.
We have a range of CAMHS services within the Trust including Mental Health in Schools Teams, an Adolescent Outreach Team, an adolescent unit, Deaf CAMHS services, Learning Disabilities and Youth Offending CAMHS teams as well as a DBT service and a range of eating disorders services.
Main duties of the job
Carry out high quality assessments; Provide evidence-based treatment; Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels; Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload; Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures; Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures. Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience. To undertake the equivalent of 1 day's work (0.2 wte; 7.5 hours) as an ERSA (Emotionally Related School Avoidance) CAMHS Clinician within the Kingston & Richmond CAMHS ERSA pathway.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our location:
This post will be based at Richmond Royal Wellbeing Centre
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Job description Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications Essential
Qualified Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist Where an applicant is in the final stages of training and has not yet obtained registration, an applicant will only be made an offer conditional upon successful registration within a time-scale that is specified.
Desirable
Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
Experience Essential
Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings Experience of multi-disciplinary team working Experience of inter-agency working Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection
Desirable
Experience of leading case reviews Experience of working in the NHS Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address Richmond Royal Wellbeing Centre
Evelyn Road
London, Richmond
TW9 2TF
Employer's website https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)