Child and Adolescent Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Are you passionate about working with young people and families? Are you looking for a Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, developmentally-sensitive, person-centered, trauma-informed and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the generic Barnet CAMHS Teams, at the Oak Lane clinic in East Finchley. The post is located within the multidisciplinary CAMHS 0-18 service, delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to families living within the borough of Barnet.
Main duties of the job:
* Offer specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting, under the supervision of a senior psychologist.
* Contribute to the work of Barnet CAMHS neurodevelopmental service.
* Offer supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists.
* Work alongside MDT colleagues and represent Psychology in MDT meetings, and CAMHS in multi-agency contexts as appropriate.
* Work autonomously within professional Psychology guidelines and exercise responsibility for their continuous professional development.
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
About Us: North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
* We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
* With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
* We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
* We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
* We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
* We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
* NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
* Excellent internal staff network
Person Specification:
Essential:
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with the HCPC as a clinical or counselling psychologist.
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of young people and adolescents with mental health difficulties and learning difficulties across the full range of care settings.
* Skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Desirable:
* Additional therapeutic training ADOS trained
* Experience of working in consultation and collaboratively with Social Care Teams.
* Experience of working within a specialist learning disability service.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working in the NHS.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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