Job summary
This exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified clinical psychologist, CBT therapist or CAMHS clinician with post graduate CBT qualifications to join our dynamic and supportive Wellbeing Team within Camden CAMHS.

You will provide training, supervision, and leadership to band 4-6 wellbeing practitioners and will support the team manager with service development. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of CBT practitioners in training and the wellbeing pathway.

The Wellbeing Team supports with intake, provides individual and group CBT and parenting interventions to children, young people, and families with mild to moderate mental health and behavioural difficulties within Camden.

The Wellbeing Team work closely with North and South Camden Community Teams who support Camden young people's (0-18) with evidence-based therapeutic interventions, from assessment to treatment. These multi-disciplinary teams are staffed by experienced CAMHS clinicians including psychologists, child psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, nurses and family therapists. CAMHS work closely with Schools, GP's, Social Care and Third Sector organisations.

We have a strong focus on the wellbeing, supervision, and development of our staff. We will accept flexible working and secondments. Must be able to work on Wednesday.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical duties, supervision and leadership
• The post holder will hold their own highly complex caseload within the team including risk management and clinical governance
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and less experienced practitioners
• Provide consultation as required to external agencies, for example to GPs/Schools/Local Authorities
• Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities such as [provide examples]
• To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the team lead/manager
• To formulate specialised programmes for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient's psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical differences and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
• Arrange reviews and communicate effectively and sensitively with the patient/service user to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
• Post graduate qualification in Children and Young Person CBT or CBT training as part of Clinical Psychology qualification.
• Registration with HCPC or relevant body as a Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist; Social Worker, Nurse or CBT Therapist

Desirable

• Supervision Qualification

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population. 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 Some experience of clinical supervision

Desirable

• Some experience of clinical supervision of staff
• Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement

Skills
Essential

• 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
Essential

• Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
• Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments

Personal Attributes
Essential

• Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
• Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
• Flexible approach to working hours to meet Services needs

Other
Essential

• Ability to travel
• Keyboard / IMT skills

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.

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.