Job summary
Islington Children's Social Care are recruiting an Assistant Psychologist to the Adolescent Multi-Agency Specialist Service (AMASS).
The post holder will be employed by Whittington Health within the Children in Need Provider Services.
AMASS provides specialist, intensive outreach services to young people (10-17 years) and their families where there is high risk of the young person becoming looked after.
AMASS has developed over the last 16 years as a highly regarded and successful multi-agency intervention service with staff from Social Care, Health and Education, located within Islington social services. Individuals referred to AMASS present with a range of social and mental health needs and can find help challenging to access. The families AMASS work with often present with complex and interacting problems and a mentalisation-based approach underpins the teams' practice.
We are looking for an innovative, resilient and experienced practitioner who will work independently according to agreed plans developed with the team CAMHS Clinician and/or Social Care manager. The applicant will work jointly with their multi-agency and multi-disciplinary colleagues in a flexible, organised and responsive way within a changing environment. We offer a stimulating and highly supportive working environment.
Include all evidence where you meet the essential requirements on the person specification.
Main duties of the job
Please See Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
The post holder will join a small, experienced team dedicated to working with children and families who are considered to be on the edge of care. They will engage with individuals from various cultural backgrounds and age groups, utilising interpreters as necessary, and must be deeply committed to promoting equal opportunities.
The role involves working directly with families and young people who often face challenges in trusting health services. To effectively support these individuals, the post holder will use an assertive outreach approach, incorporating evidence-based interventions where appropriate. Evening work will occasionally be required to accommodate the needs of the assertive outreach model.
In addition to these responsibilities, the post holder will be responsible for accurate record-keeping and, under the supervision of the AMASS CAMHS clinician, will take the lead in implementing the team's service evaluation programme including data gathering and analytics.
We seek a resilient, flexible, and optimistic worker who can maintain hope for the families they support.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for full details.
To support and enhance assessments and intensive interventions delivered in families homes and the community to families working with AMASS, via individual outreach and joint multi-agency work.
To provide a range of assessments and interventions under supervision of the AMASS Senior CAMHS Clinician
To contribute to group supervision (a weekly multi agency meeting), multi-disciplinary reports and meetings as appropriate.
To support the completion of outcome measures and help implement the services programme of evaluation.
To work independently according to plans agreed within the overall framework of the teams values, policies and procedures, drawing on psychological theory and core engagement techniques.
Your application form
- Provide only business email address for your referees we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
- Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes
- Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
- If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
- Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
- Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information
- Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
- In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for full details.
To support and enhance assessments and intensive interventions delivered in families homes and the community to families working with AMASS, via individual outreach and joint multi-agency work.
To provide a range of assessments and interventions under supervision of the AMASS Senior CAMHS Clinician
To contribute to group supervision (a weekly multi agency meeting), multi-disciplinary reports and meetings as appropriate.
To support the completion of outcome measures and help implement the services programme of evaluation.
To work independently according to plans agreed within the overall framework of the teams values, policies and procedures, drawing on psychological theory and core engagement techniques.
Your application form
- Provide only business email address for your referees we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
- Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes
- Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
- If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
- Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
- Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information
- Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
- In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology, with entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adolescents with complex needs and challenging behaviour, preferably in an assertive outreach capacity
- Experience of working in a multi-agency or multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of undertaking service evaluation or research
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to interventions with young people and families
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to young people, families and professionals
- Experience using computers for databases or data analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
- A working knowledge of the key principles of legislation and policy impacting on children and young people relating to safeguarding and child protection and the provision of service to children in need and children looked after.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology, with entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adolescents with complex needs and challenging behaviour, preferably in an assertive outreach capacity
- Experience of working in a multi-agency or multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of undertaking service evaluation or research
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to interventions with young people and families
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to young people, families and professionals
- Experience using computers for databases or data analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
- A working knowledge of the key principles of legislation and policy impacting on children and young people relating to safeguarding and child protection and the provision of service to children in need and children looked after.
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.
