Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Psychologist (0.8WTE) to join our South East Forensic CAMHS service; a specialist communitychild and adolescent mental health service for children and young people who present with a serious risk of harm to others and have a range of complex needs, across the South East of England.
Our multidisciplinary service is made up of three locality teams in 1) Kent & Medway, 2) Surrey and 3) Sussex who work closely together in a single professional network, to share knowledge and experience and provide supervision and support. This post is to join Nursing and Psychology colleagues in Kent & Medway.
Main duties of the job
We run a predominantly liaison and consultation service, offering advice, support, structured consultation and training to multiagency colleagueswho are working with young people whose behaviour is causing significant concern for their families, community and others involved in their care. In some cases we may offer specialist assessment and intervention.
The successful applicant will benefit from a varied job role that will include specialist direct work, consultation, developing and delivering training and offering supervision to colleagues in the team. There will also be opportunities to drive research and audit and access specialist training.
The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership to the Kent and Medway locality and will have the opportunity to further shape the role and contribute to service development and delivery.
The Kent & Medway locality team offer a flexible and accessible service across the entirety of the county. The post holder will have some flexibilityto negotiate a nominal base most suitable to them, but will be expected to work in an agile way, supporting the team and multiagency colleagues across the county.
About us
The service is run in partnership by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT), North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The employing Trust for this post is SPFT and the successful applicant will have an honorary contract with NELFT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post offers opportunities for:
- Contributing to the strategic and operational development of Forensic CAMHS locally and regionally across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
- Consultation and training for clinicians within the organisation and with other stakeholders within the geographical patch.
- Direct clinical work with children, young people and their families.
- Access to bespoke training and supervision.
Key skills will include:
- Excellent clinical knowledge and experience across a range of approaches, presentations and age ranges.
- Excellent skills in case formulation including management of risk and multi-agency planning.
- Excellent skills in multi-agency consultation.
- Be able to talk confidently and knowledgeably to a wide audience including young people and their families as well as a range of professionals.
- An excellent ability to communicate with clinicians inside the service and with external stakeholders including; school, childrens services and youth offending teams.
- An ability to represent the profession while working collaboratively with colleagues.
- The successful applicant must be able to work well within a team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post offers opportunities for:
- Contributing to the strategic and operational development of Forensic CAMHS locally and regionally across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
- Consultation and training for clinicians within the organisation and with other stakeholders within the geographical patch.
- Direct clinical work with children, young people and their families.
- Access to bespoke training and supervision.
Key skills will include:
- Excellent clinical knowledge and experience across a range of approaches, presentations and age ranges.
- Excellent skills in case formulation including management of risk and multi-agency planning.
- Excellent skills in multi-agency consultation.
- Be able to talk confidently and knowledgeably to a wide audience including young people and their families as well as a range of professionals.
- An excellent ability to communicate with clinicians inside the service and with external stakeholders including; school, childrens services and youth offending teams.
- An ability to represent the profession while working collaboratively with colleagues.
- The successful applicant must be able to work well within a team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to clinical area.
- HPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working directly with children and young people posing a risk to others
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for c&yp's' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to clinical area.
- HPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of working directly with children and young people posing a risk to others
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for c&yp's' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
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).
