Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 x Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to join the Generic CAMHS team in Haringey, North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). The post holder will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to children and young people referred to Haringey CAMHS providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. Other responsibilities include the following: To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research. To provide consultation, teaching, advice and training to other professionals, and staff working with children and young people.

Main duties of the job

• To provide mental health and specialist therapy assessments of a significant and complex nature with a view of formulating and implementing plans for the treatment and management of a child and adolescent's mental health difficulties within the context of family and other systems.
• These assessments will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and will employ evidence-based practice and information from appropriate rating scales, self report measure, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care and service user feedback.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual child/young person, family, or group.
• To use appropriate psychological models to treat range of presentations including trauma and attachment issues, drawing upon different models to develop a formulation and treatment plan.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children, adolescents and families whose problems and formulate effective care plans in collaboration with the client and family.To work jointly and collaboratively with other multidisciplinary team members to enhance and develop work with families by providing specialist knowledge and skills.To provide specialist consultation, advice, and guidance to other professionals at all levels working with children, young people and their families both within the service and in partner agencies. This will include liaison and work with professional networks involved with complex issues, such as those involving child protection and Looked after Children and adolescents.To work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. This includes an ability to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, blended families, same sex couples and their wider family networks, accommodated children and their network of care, children who are on the At-Risk register and parents with mental health difficulties.To communicate effectively verbally and in writing, and to provide reports. To communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of children, young people and their families/carers.To include and consult service users at all stages of assessment, care planning and treatment.To lead on innovative service development in consultation with the discipline lead, addressing waiting times and ensure that the priorities are in line with the long-term plan. Working with key stake holders from other sectors in designing care plans and discharge To work in accordance with CAMHS teams objectives by adhering to Trust and Directorate policies, including risk assessment in all work, ensuring care plans are in place, recording on RIO up to date, attending, and contributing a psychological view in case discussion and team meetings.

Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
• Professional registration with the HCPC

Desirable

• Additional training or qualifications in any of the major psychological therapies including CYP-IAPT training.

Experience
Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of work in a multidisciplinary team, multi-agency contexts.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of working in a CAMHS setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required for professional registration with the HCPC
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.

Desirable

• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
• Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists.

Other
Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation.

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).