CAMHS Clinical Specialist

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated 3 years fixed term -part-time (3 days a week) Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Clinical Specialist to join our muti-disciplinary CAMHS service for Children Looked After and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. The role involves undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, monitoring outcomes, and providing consultation and specialist advice to social care, health, education and CAMHS colleagues to support the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of this vulnerable client group.

Applicants must hold either a Doctoral qualification (or equivalent) in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, or a recognised professional qualification in Nursing, Child Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Creative Therapy, or Social Work with relevant professional registration. Applicants will also be required to demonstrate experience of delivering trauma-informed interventions to children, young people, and/or families.

Main duties of the job

The role has a primary focus on direct clinical work and includes responsibility for culturally sensitive and trauma informed assessment, care planning, implementation of therapeutic interventions (individual, family and group), risk management, and outcome monitoring. In addition, the post holder will contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, audit, research, training and clinical supervision, supporting the continuous improvement of service delivery and outcomes for children and young people.

The post holder will be a member of the multi-disciplinary Lambeth Children Looked After Mental Health Team (CLAMHS) which is a specialist team within Lambeth CAMHS. The team is located with other Lambeth CAMHS teams at St John's Angell Town School which is a 10 minute walk from Brixton Underground and Train Station (Zone 2). Lambeth is a vibrant, inner city, ethnically diverse community.

About us

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Entry-level qualification: appropriately registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist, Child Psychotherapist, Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Creative Therapist
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC/UKCP/RCN/SWE/ACP
• All applicants will require a professional training with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Social Work England (SWE), Health and Care Professional's Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP

Desirable

• Formal training in supervision
• Ability to deliver trauma interventions such as Trauma focused CBT, EMDR, NET

Experience

Essential

• Experience of mental health assessment, formulation and treatment/intervention of children with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in child and adolescent mental health
• Experience of mental health assessment, formulation and treatment/intervention of children with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in child and adolescent mental health
• Evidence of having worked as a clinical practitioner under supervision in CAMHS
• Experience in chairing/leading multi-disciplinary meetings
• Experience in working with diverse populations

Desirable

• Experience of supervising junior clinical staff
• Evidence of teaching, training and presenting clinical information to a range of client groups, stakeholders and professionals
• Experience of facilitating groups for children, young people and / or their families.
• Experience of improving patient experience of the clinical environment

Knowledge

Essential

• Skills and knowledge of the theory and evidence base relevant to work with child and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or neurodevelopmental disorder (including Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD), and additional mental health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
• To select and administer a broad range of assessment tools and frameworks to evaluate outcomes and progress of children and families.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities including the Children Act, child protection procedures, Human Rights Act and the Mental Health Act.
• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in challenging to treat groups (including children with complex trauma, attachment difficulties, multiple placement breakdowns and/or difficult migration journeys).
• Knowledge of the application of specific therapeutic models to different needs

Skills

Essential

• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups
• Consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups within own service
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision
• Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions and specialisation in at least one model of therapy
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour

Desirable

• Experience working with children who are looked after and/or unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
• Experience of presenting own research/audit