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Job overview
Clinical Psychologist / CBT Therapist / CAMHS Clinician and Supervisor
1.6 Permanent and 1 Fixed Term (12 months) post (2.6 WTE total) are available in Islington's School Wellbeing Service. Part-time or job-share applications will be considered.
Islington's School Wellbeing Service is part of the national Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) initiative, aiming to improve access to help and the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools. The service is delivered as a partnership between Whittington Health and LB Islington. The teams deliver preventative and early intervention mental health work to all the boroughs mainstream schools.
We are recruiting proactive, creative and skilled colleagues to join our thriving team. The successful applicants will be passionate about mental health in schools, widening access to services and enjoy inter-agency working.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will join one of our two locality teams in Islington's School Wellbeing Service. The role will include helping to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions within schools including direct psychological interventions with children, young people and their carers as well as groups, workshops and staff training as part of a whole-school approach to mental health. Alongside the team leads they will contribute to service development and evaluation and support the development and embedding of the SWS within Islington's schools.
The post holders will have some responsibility for the supervision of qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) in the team. Depending on experience there will be the opportunity to attend the one-year PG Cert Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Services de. This training is delivered in collaboration with UCL at Anna Freud in North London.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job description
Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification attachments for full details of this role.
Key aspects:
* To provide highly specialist mental health assessments of children of school age and their families, using individual, parent and family interviews, formal developmental, psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate
* To provide specialist generic and discipline-specific preventative and treatment interventions for referred clients including school age children, adolescents and their families
* To oversee the formulation and intervention plans for schools, parents, children and young people being supported by the EMHPs using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service; individual and group.
* Working in partnership with schools, to support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
* Provide a range of information and support to schools for evidence based psychological interventions, including guided self-help and signposting to other services where appropriate.
* To provide clinical supervision to EMHPs along with other clinical supervisors in the team.
* Support EMHPs/CWPs in the co-delivery of training sessions, group and individual interventions in schools.
* To support the EMHPs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
* To support EMHPs in meeting their training requirements, and to fulfil requirements of any supervisor training that may be part of the job role.
* To support the management and screening of referrals into the MHS
* To help manage the day-to-day running of the MHST at an operational level.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, educational psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies including qualified CBT Therapists
Desirable criteria
* Specific training in an area related to CYPIAPT e.g. CBT, systemic, parenting or supervision
SKills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for children with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties and challenging behaviour, their families and carers.
* Skills and abilities in delivering preventative and early-stage mental health interventions
* Skills and abilities in delivering whole-school interventions for social, emotional and mental health
* Ability to work autonomously to engage hard to reach families providing an assessment and treatment service.
* Skills in the assessment of clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.
* Skills in the flexible use of evidence-based intervention and management of children/young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties, their families and carers.
* Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly and sensitively with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
* Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in effectively managing a clinical caseload, completing outcomes measures routinely, updating clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements
* Ability to type own notes on our RIO electronic patient records.
Desirable criteria
* Skills in supervising clinicians in CBT based interventions
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions
* Knowledge and experience of individual, group and organisational interventions for preventing mental health problems and early intervention
* Experience of working with children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
* Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment.
* Experience of working clinically in community settings e.g. with schools to meet the mental health needs of CYP.
* Experience of providing a culturally sensitive therapeutic service to young people and families.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of or training in trauma-informed approaches with children and young people.
* Experience of delivering parenting programmes e.g. webster Stratton, Triple P, NVR
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* SWS CAMHS Clinician and Supervisor Job Description (PDF, 264.4KB)
* SWS CAMHS Clinician and Supervisor Person Specification (PDF, 384.4KB)
* Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
* Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)
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