Senior Clinical Psychologist / Senior CAMHS Practitioner

Job responsibilities

1. Clinical:

To provide assessments, formulation, and specialist intervention to promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families/care networks with timely and effective decision making and communicate this to the referrer.

To provide psychological expertise, advice and consultation to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by other professionals working with the client group from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to service provision. This will include by attendance at planning meetings and multidisciplinary and multiagency reviews and where appropriate, convening meetings.

To provide psychological training, advice, and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work, specifically with foster carers, residential staff, and social workers, in relation to cared for children.

To ensure high standards of intervention, safeguarding and risk management in work with children, young people, and families with a diverse range of complex needs.

To communicate sensitive, complex information to families who may be in a high degree of distress, maintaining a high degree of professionalism and respecting cultural diversity.

To provide an immediate response and interventions where required to children and young people and be confident to safety plan, risk assess and understand when children and young people need a crisis response and how to manage this appropriately.

To utilise, in collaboration with the child, young person and family, assessment and outcome measures throughout all clinical activity and supervision, maintaining up to date records of such in clinical notes.

To implement, co-ordinate and regularly review further assessment and a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions, including risk management, utilising the skills and expertise of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies where appropriate.

Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of assessment and treatment.

To actively participate in regular clinical supervision.

To supervise junior staff, maintaining up to date records of such.

To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary team meetings and multi-agency meetings.

To support the duty core team where appropriate, offering CAMHS liaison services to paediatric staff and the assessment of emergency referrals.

Provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals, individual and groups across the service, Trust, and other agencies, in particular offering targeted support to Trafford Childrens Services and attend and contribute to professional meetings.

To provide written reports as required and within timescale.

Demonstrate excellent communication skills.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Training and qualification

Essential

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS
• Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH
• Social Work (CQSW/DipSW)
• Occupational Therapy

Desirable

• ADOS trained
• Certificate in supervision skills
• Additional post graduate training in psychological therapies and interventions e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT / Family Therapy

Registration

Essential

• Professional registration - E.g. NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BACP

Experience

Essential

• Experience in working with Looked After Children and multi-agency working
• Experience in assessment and therapeutic work with children and families across the age range
• Experience of consulting with health care and other professionals
• Proven experience of working effectively with children and young people .with mental health difficulties, including autonomous management of a complex caseload which frequently deals with distressing and emotional circumstances
• Experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
• Experience of developing and providing evidenced based assessments, formulations, and care plans and effective use of ROMS
• Experience of hard to reach diverse community groups and individuals with emerging complex needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and safeguarding
• Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals, including managing difficult conversations and differences of opinion
• Experience of mentoring and supervision of others, including supporting the mental health and wellbeing of junior staff and trainees
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures

Desirable

• Experience of providing a variety of interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families/carers
• Community mental health experience across a variety of settings

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

Essential

• Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation
• Advanced knowledge and skills in delivery of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
• The ability to assess, formulate and manage care appropriately, ensuring discharge is timely
• The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family
• Ability to integrate psychological theories and outcome data with clinical practice and service provision
• Ability to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate therapeutic interventions with children across the age range and their parents/carers
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information and overcome barriers to acceptance with children, parents and professionals
• To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies i.e., social workers, education, GP's, maintaining positive working relationships. The ability to work with people from a range of different backgrounds, cultures and or different ages
• To be able to provide feedback and constructive guidance to junior members of the team and trainees to facilitate their personal and professional development
• The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance
• To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner
• Ability to manage and organise own time and diary, and work flexibly and creatively in a clinical context and pressurised situations
• The ability to follow policy and make proposals for change
• The ability to work independently with the support of clinical and management supervision
• The ability to maintain clinical records both written and electronic
• The ability to cope with stressful situations including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the case of highly emotive and distressing problems

Desirable

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of audit and research
• Delivery of group work and workshops
• Advanced IT skills
• Experience of supervising junior staff

Personal Attributes

Essential

• A commitment to undertake further relevant training and self-directed study
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
• A commitment to the inclusion of young people's, parent/carer views in service delivery, development and design
• Willingness to contribute to team functioning, performance and the ongoing development of the service

Work Related Circumstance

Essential

• Use of a car or access to a means of travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).