Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in an 8a development role as a Clinical Psychologist within our Children and Young People\'s Mental Health Services (CYPMS, formerly known as CAMHS) multidisciplinary team. The successful post holder will work within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway which includes Forest House General Adolescent Unit (FHAU), Home Treatment Team, DBT and the Eating Disorders Service. The role involves delivering a high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families within our Enhanced Specialist Pathway (previously Tier 4 services). The post holder will have HCPC registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent service within the Enhanced Specialist pathway, providing both core work and specialist work. HPFT has been at the forefront of national developments in CYPMHS and service developments. The Enhanced Specialist services are a dynamic, caring, supportive and hard-working team that prides itself on collaborative working with young people and stakeholders in service delivery. There are opportunities to take a lead in areas of service delivery and specialist areas of interest.
Responsibilities
* To ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service to young people within FHAU and across the Enhanced Specialist Pathway, working collegially within a multidisciplinary Therapies Team and the wider MDT.
* To manage a team of therapists, ensuring adequate skill mix and cover for the services; provide support and supervision to the team in line with need and Trust policy.
* To provide highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment, and to offer advice and consultation on young people\'s psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and to carers and parents.
* To provide case management around a subset of young people within FHAU, ensuring safe, joined-up care across hospital, home and involved services/agencies; direct and guide Therapy Team members to do the same.
* To work autonomously as a member of the FHAU multidisciplinary team and the Enhanced Specialist Pathway, delivering a high standard of service to young people and their families.
* To participate in pre-admission work, onboarding, assessment and treatment of young people and families, addressing highly complex emotional, psychological or behavioral problems, and to enable safe transitions back into the community.
* To provide an appropriate range of highly specialist psychology services within the pathway and to provide clinical/professional supervision to less experienced practitioner psychologists, psychological practitioners and trainees.
* To provide specialist advice to other professionals and carers, and to contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all young people in the service.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual young people and to advise other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
* To act as case manager where appropriate, coordinating care with the young person, family, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
* To communicate assessment, formulation and treatment plans clearly and sensitively, and to monitor and evaluate progress during unit- and multidisciplinary care.
* To ensure staff have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care through advice, consultation and dissemination of psychological research and theory.
* To provide professional supervision and support to staff, oversee recruitment, appraisal and performance management, and line management within the Therapies Team as required.
Clinical Responsibilities
* Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of young people admitted to FHAU and the Enhanced Specialist Pathway, based on the interpretation of complex data from tests, self-report measures, observations and interviews.
* Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and management of a young person\'s mental health problems, employing evidence-based interventions and collaborating with the wider team.
* Deliver a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting formulations using multiple explanatory models.
* Make skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
* Exercise professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge within psychologically based care plans.
* Provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals contributing to young people\'s formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
* Contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all young people in the service and ensure colleagues have access to this framework.
* Undertake risk assessment and risk management and provide guidance on psychological aspects of risk.
* Facilitate the FHAU Therapies Team in case management and coordinate care with the young person and network of care.
* Communicate progress and treatment plans effectively to young people, families, carers and other professionals.
* Provide expertise and support to enable effective psychological care by core team members.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Relevant training and professional registration as per person specification.
* Post-Doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT.
* Post-registration experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment with clients with complex needs.
Desirable Criteria
* Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT; experience in neuropsychological assessment; supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists.
* Experience in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations; usually 2+ years post-qualification experience.
* Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems across life span; professionalism under distressing conditions; teaching, training and supervision experience.
* Ability to provide consultation, knowledge of mental health interventions for children, child protection procedures, and full clinical responsibility within multidisciplinary care.
* Good presentation and teaching skills; ability to use multimedia for large group presentations; experience in a multi-cultural framework.
* Desirable: service quality monitoring, clinical audit or evaluative research; publications; strong communication skills; ability to work in a team; driving license; IT skills; leadership qualities.
About HPFT
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission. Our family of over 4,000 staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering services in the community and inpatient settings. Our values emphasize choice, independence and equality, with a compassionate, values-driven culture. We are proud of our staff and the care we provide.
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