Job summary
The Helping Families Team is a clinical team within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, which is part of SlaM's National and Specialist CAMHS provision.
The role will interest clinicians who are highly skilled and experienced at engaging with families who are impacted by parental mental health.
The role involves the systematic and ecological assessment of parental mental health and the delivery of a range of specialist evidence-based parenting interventions developed in the Centre.
You will take a role in providing clinical supervision to colleagues and providing expertise in the assessment and management of clinical risk, as well as providing guidance and leadership in regards to child and adult safeguarding.
You will be a strong, compassionate and motivating leader
You take a lead role in enabling staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
You will contribute to the collection of routine outcomes, as well as the coordination of service evaluation, service development, intervention development and research.
Main duties of the job
- Systematic provision of a highly specialist psychotherapeutic service to families impacted on by parental mental health
- Skilled provision of clinical supervision to colleagues and consultation to professionals
- Ability to assess, manage and supervise clinical risk for parents experiencing significant mental health difficulties
- Monitor, manage and communicate child and adult safeguarding concerns with families and professional networks
- Specialist psychological assessment of parental mental health and family functioning
- Highly skilled in the clinical application of the Helping Families Programme to families with complex presentations
- Confident and skilled in engaging with parents who are experiencing significant mental health difficulties and are likely to have had significant input from a range of services over a long period of time.
- Ability to create a supportive, connected, facilitative, influential and purposeful partnerships with families, colleagues and multi-agencies.
- Facilitation of specialist peer-led parenting group interventions
- Service evaluation, audit and research
About us
CPCS is a successful and influential service that has developed and disseminated a number of evidence-based parenting interventions which focus on early life and development, parenting, and families living in complex psychosocial circumstances.
- The Helping Families Team is a multi-disciplinary team within the Centre that provides specialist individual and group parenting interventions to parents who are experiencing mental health difficulties.
- The Helping Families Team works in partnership with families, colleagues and other agencies. We have a clear set of principles and values that guide the way we interact as a team and how we engage respectfully and honestly with families and professionals.
- The Helping Families Programme is a specialist parenting programme that was developed to support multi-stressed parents to address crises and stressors that they themselves and their families face as well as facilitating improvements in their parenting and their relationships.
- About our locations: Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
The HFT are based in the Michael Rutter Centre on the Maudsley Hospital site. Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants. We provide services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Croydon and Southwark.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist psychotherapeutic service to families impacted by parental mental health including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- Clinical application and supervision of the Helping Families Programme, Being a Parent-Enjoying Family Life Group and Baby and Us-Perinatal, as well as other evidence-based interventions designed and disseminated within the Centre.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To act as Senior Clinician, within HFT, taking responsibility for child and adult safeguarding and clinical risk management of families.
- To provide consultation to SLaM colleagues and multi-agency professionals and functioning as a lead specialist in parental mental health.
- To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues within the Helping Families Team and across the CPCS.
- Provision of professional training in the Helping Families Programme, Family Partnership Model and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions.
- To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
- To work as an autonomous professional within relevant Professional bodies and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
- To lead on the implementation of innovative and evidence-based projects within the team to highlight the importance of addressing parental mental health issues affecting families Trust-wide and nationally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist psychotherapeutic service to families impacted by parental mental health including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- Clinical application and supervision of the Helping Families Programme, Being a Parent-Enjoying Family Life Group and Baby and Us-Perinatal, as well as other evidence-based interventions designed and disseminated within the Centre.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To act as Senior Clinician, within HFT, taking responsibility for child and adult safeguarding and clinical risk management of families.
- To provide consultation to SLaM colleagues and multi-agency professionals and functioning as a lead specialist in parental mental health.
- To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists and multi-disciplinary colleagues within the Helping Families Team and across the CPCS.
- Provision of professional training in the Helping Families Programme, Family Partnership Model and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions.
- To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
- To work as an autonomous professional within relevant Professional bodies and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
- To lead on the implementation of innovative and evidence-based projects within the team to highlight the importance of addressing parental mental health issues affecting families Trust-wide and nationally.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline, HCPC or equivalent
- Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline
Desirable
- Training in delivery of Helping Families Programme; Family Partnership Model; Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in parental mental health and child mental health.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature relevant to working with families impacted by parental mental health.
- Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
Desirable
- Experience of providing consultation with multi-agency networks in areas relevant to multi-stressed families
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for adults, children and adolescents with mental health difficulties
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant intervention of parental mental health and families
Desirable
- Advanced understanding of the family Partnership model, Helping families Programme, and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities evidence-base and models.
- Understanding of importance of trauma-informed practice
Skills
Essential
- To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
- To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
Desirable
- To adapt evidence-based models to improve service provision and service user acceptability
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
Desirable
- Ability to understand and work with marginalised communities and families who have experienced significant levels of grief and trauma, including loss of a family member
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline, HCPC or equivalent
- Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline
Desirable
- Training in delivery of Helping Families Programme; Family Partnership Model; Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities group interventions
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in parental mental health and child mental health.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature relevant to working with families impacted by parental mental health.
- Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities
Desirable
- Experience of providing consultation with multi-agency networks in areas relevant to multi-stressed families
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for adults, children and adolescents with mental health difficulties
- Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant intervention of parental mental health and families
Desirable
- Advanced understanding of the family Partnership model, Helping families Programme, and Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities evidence-base and models.
- Understanding of importance of trauma-informed practice
Skills
Essential
- To deliver psychological therapy across cultural and other differences
- To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
Desirable
- To adapt evidence-based models to improve service provision and service user acceptability
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
Desirable
- Ability to understand and work with marginalised communities and families who have experienced significant levels of grief and trauma, including loss of a family member
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Centre for Parent and Child Support, Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital
London
SE5 8AZ
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
