8a CBT Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Specialist CAMHS Clinician London, England
Job description
Islington CAMHS’s Adolescent Assessment + Outreach Team are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior CBT Therapist, Clinical Psychologist or other specialist CAMHS clinician. This post is a 1 year, fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. It is an excellent opportunity for an experienced band 7 CAMHS clinician, who is ready for a step-up to 8a responsibilities, and can be offered as a secondment or similar, and can be flexed around other roles.
AAOT is a specialist multidisciplinary team working with 12–18-year-olds, who have high-risk, acute, chronic, and complex difficulties. We provide a rapid assessment, treatment, and sign-posting service for young people in crisis and for the most urgent referrals into the service. We engage with and provide active discharge planning to all young people experiencing a Tier 4 admission, aiming to offer a seamless and highly supportive discharge package. We also provide long-term, high intensity support for young people who have complex, severe and enduring mental health problems, using a flexible, community and home-based approach. We work closely with a wide range of other professionals and agencies in order to provide joined-up interventions to this high risk, vulnerable client group and their families.
The Senior CBT Therapist/Clinical Psychologist/specialist CAMHS Clinician role involves providing specialist therapeutic input into the AAOT, through both direct clinical work with young people and their families, and by supporting and supervising AAOT clinicians in their clinical work. The post holder will be part of the senior clinical and management team in AAOT, helping to support, develop and shape the work of the team, and in particular the development of our specialist therapies offer. The post holder will hold a small caseload, with a mixture of long and short-term, acute, and chronic cases, working as care co-ordinator in assessing, planning, and providing care and treatment to individual cases and their families. There will also be many opportunities for joint working with other team clinicians and across the disciplines, and being an active member of the AAOT MDT, supporting the whole team approach in the management of our high-risk and complex caseload. There will be opportunities for 1:1 interventions, family, and group work; using a range of therapeutic models including CBT, DBT and Mentalisation. The post holder will also be involved in outcome monitoring and service evaluation.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
3.1 Clinical
3.1.1 To provide specialist generic and discipline specific treatments of referred clients.
- To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventionsusing a range of generic and discipline specific models appropriate to the service area
- To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis, and treatment of clients
- To hold and manage a caseload of clients
- To work autonomously and independently in undertaking assessments and treatments, with the support and guidance of the MDT
- To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary and joint assessments and treatment, when appropriate and agreed by the MDT
- To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients
- To liaise with other health, social care, and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service
- To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients’ homes to best meet the clients needs and in line with service practic
3.2.1 To continue to develop skills in the area of training and clinical supervision.
- To supervise, mentor and support the clinical team within AAOT as required
- To provide training, advice, and consultation where appropriate, to other health, social care, voluntary sector, and education staff working with the client groups
3.3.1 To contribute to the development, evaluation, implementation and monitoring of the operational policies of Community CAMHS and specifically AAOT.
- To participate in the duty and crisis rota for the DSR
- To oversee and develop the clinical psychology treatment offer in AAOT, and to be involved in developing the wider treatment model, approach and offers of the team
- To manage the workloads of assistant and trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures
- To support Team Manager and Deputy Manager in AAOT recruitment processes
3.4.1 To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and family work and with other team members and inter-agency colleagues.
3.5 General
3.5.1 To ensure the development and maintenance of the highest personal standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service managers.
- To work flexibly and with initiative to meet the core aims of service delivery to clients
- To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice within the service areas, by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the post holder’s area of specialism and in child mental health and related disciplines
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with Service and Trust policies and procedures
3.5.5 To undertake such other duties and responsibilities, appropriate to the grade of the post, as may be agreed with the service managers.
3.5.6 To attend Community CAMHS and Discipline specific meetings as may be agreed with the Head of Discipline and Service Manager.
