Assistant Psychologist Lewisham CAMHS Intake

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Client Care

To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems

To conduct psychological assessments of clients accessing the service. This may include clinical interviews, self-report measures, neuropsychological tests, and structured observations.

To support the delivery of protocol-based individual psychological interventions for young people and families as agreed within clinical supervision.

To support the delivery and running of therapeutic groups

Support liaison with other agencies in young peoples professional network.

To prepare assessment reports and clinical letters.

To assist in the development of clinical resources or training materials

Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To attend and contribute to appropriate multi- disciplinary meetings.

To contribute to the effective working of the service by creating and updating databases to track processes / pathways

To contribute to the training and support of other staff in developing and providing psychological care of clients.

To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To participate in the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

Policy and service development

To follow policies and procedures in own area of work

To participate in the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting supplies as needed.

To be responsible for safe keeping of equipment or stock provided to the post holder and informing the supervising psychologist or manager when stock requires replenishing (may apply to psychometric tests, specialised stationery etc.).

Teaching and Training

To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations or published articles.

To arrange, schedule and co-facilitate training to employees of the Trust or employees of partner agencies in order to support service improvement.

KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

To maintain data bases and enter data and perform analyses and produce reports.

Research and development

To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the service, Psychologists and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision and research activities.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programs.

To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development in the Trust of evidence-based practice.

Under guidance to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision.

Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines

To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.

To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.

To undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.

General

To travel to home visits, community placements, psychology meetings and other locations as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to offer peer support others involved in such situations.

To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics, within the overall Job Plan.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
• Postgraduate training relevant to mental health
• A First-class or Second-class Bachelors degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of awareness/understanding of the needs of people with mental health problems
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, information to clients, families and colleagues
• Skills in providing support to teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups

Desirable

• Paid experience in a service providing psychological therapies

Skills & abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles
• Ability to use supervision
• Ability to use outcome measures, Passion for using data to improve performance and outcomes
• Ability to work independently, to a consistently high standard, reliably meeting deadlines
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to colleagues (and potentially clients and relatives) in a way that promotes understanding and action

Desirable

• Ability to manage occasional emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour

Experience

Essential

• Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs in mental health to be able to work clinically with close direct supervision
• Experience of forming therapeutic relationships
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience

Desirable

• Post-graduate experience of conducting research projects or audits

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Lewisham Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service

Kaleidoscope Centre | 32 Rushey Green | London | SE6 4JF

London, Catford

SE6 4JF

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)