About this role
Job summary
An Exciting Opportunity to Shape the Future of Neuro-developmental Care
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Clinical Psychologist to join Specialist Services - Child and Adolescents Mental Health Service, Tower Hamlets in a unique Band 8b leadership opportunity. This role combines highly specialist clinical practice with service transformation and system leadership to improve outcomes for children and young people with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental needs.
Funded through the Tower Hamlets Health Inequalities Fund, this post has been created to address significant health inequalities, improve access to ADHD assessment and intervention, and lead the development of an integrated neurovariance pathway across East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) and Barts Health.
The post holder will provide specialist ADHD assessments for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health difficulties, whilst also leading strategic work to strengthen pathways, improve system integration and enhance the experience of families accessing care.
The role will be based at Greatorex Street, Tower Hamlets CAMHS, with cross-site working at Barts Health ASDAS, Mile End Hospital.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
You will
- Deliver highly specialist ADHD and neuro-developmental assessments within Tower Hamlets CAMHS.
- Provide expert consultation, formulation and intervention for complex presentations.
- Support clinical triage and pathway decision making across CAMHS and ASDAS.
- Lead the development and implementation of an integrated ADHD and neurovariance pathway across ELFT and Barts Health.
- Collaborate with education, social care, primary care and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes for children and young people.
- Deliver training, consultation and clinical leadership across services.
- Contribute to reducing ADHD waiting times and improving access for one of the most diverse and deprived boroughs in England.
About You
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist who has:
- A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration.
- Significant CAMHS experience with children and young people.
- Expertise in ADHD and neurodevelopmental assessment.
- Experience of working with complex mental health presentations.
- Proven service development, quality improvement or project leadership experience.
- Excellent partnership working and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A passion for reducing health inequalities and improving access to care.
- The ability to influence and work across organisational boundaries to deliver meaningful change.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Why Join Us?
Tower Hamlets CAMHS is an ambitious and innovative service committed to improving outcomes for children, young people and families. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to influence pathway development at a system level while maintaining direct clinical practice.
You will work alongside experienced multidisciplinary colleagues across ELFT and Barts Health and play a key role in shaping the future of neurodevelopmental services for children and young people in Tower Hamlets.
At ELFT we are committed to inclusion, anti-racist practice, staff wellbeing and continuous improvement. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and communities and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details.
For further information and/or an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Dr Ruksana Ahmed, Associate Clinical Director, Tower Hamlets CAMHS
Join us and help transform neuro-developmental care for children and young people across Tower Hamlets.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification/Training
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent qualification recognised by HCPC)
- HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
- Evidence of substantial post-qualification continuing professional development relevant to CAMHS and neurodevelopmental practice
- Additional specialist training in ADHD assessment and intervention
- Additional specialist training in neurodevelopmental assessment, autism and/or complex developmental presentations
- Formal training in clinical supervision
Desirable
- Qualification or training in Leadership, Service Improvement, Project Management or Quality Improvement methodology
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Experience of undertaking highly specialist ADHD assessments in children and young people
- Experience working with neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD, autism and co-occurring mental health difficulties
- Experience managing highly complex and high-risk clinical presentations
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
- Experience of working with children, young people, and families from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds
- Experience of providing specialist consultation to professionals and teams
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to qualified staff and trainees
- Experience of exercising autonomous clinical responsibility for assessment, treatment planning and risk management
- Experience of leading service development initiatives and implementing change
- Experience of project leadership, pathway redesign or transformation work
- Experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting service performance data
- Experience of influencing service delivery beyond own team
- Experience of managing competing clinical and service priorities
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' therapeutic care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Desirable
- Experience of developing neurodevelopmental pathways
- Experience of leading cross-organisational service developments
- Experience of partnership working across NHS providers
- Experience of Quality Improvement methodology and implementation
- Experience of contributing to business cases, service reviews or commissioning discussions
- Experience of presenting at regional or national forums
- Experience of facilitating complex stakeholder engagement processes
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive, and potentially distressing information to children, young people, families, and professionals
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior clinicians, managers, and system partners
- Advanced consultation skills
- Advanced negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to develop and maintain productive partnerships across organisations
- Ability to present highly complex information in written and verbal formats
- Ability to produce high-quality reports, business documents and presentations
- Ability to facilitate meetings and workshops involving multiple stakeholders
- Ability to provide a culturally competent service
- Competent IT Skills e.g., MS Office, keyboard skills
- Ability to write coherent, clear, and relevant reports
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
- Able to record and report on clinical information as required
- Ability to develop content and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings
- Up to date knowledge of research and national guidance relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group
- Record of providing training and supervision to others Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to be flexible and adapt approach according to need
- Ability to accommodate disruption to plans owing to the often crisis nature of CAMHS work
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
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tower Hamlets CAMHS
18 Greatorex Street
London
E1 5NF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)