The postholder will be co-lead of the multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities sub-team, embedded within the Harrow CAMH Service. The Learning Disabilities team delivers high-quality, evidence-based and effective psychological care to individuals with moderate to severe learning disabilities with co-occurring mental health and behavioural difficulties.
The role also includes the provision of specialist psychological assessment, therapy, advice, and consultation on children and young people’s psychological care. The postholder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
The postholder will utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Key Responsibilities:
* To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to children with learning disabilities and their families across all sectors of care; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
* To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service area.
* To provide supervision and training to others, both within Clinical Psychology and the CAMHS LD Team and external partners to the service, working with the client group.
* To liaise and consult with other health care professionals, both within and external to the team, including Paediatricians, Physiotherapists, OT’s, Psychiatrists, Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Specialist Teachers, Children’s Social Care Workers, voluntary sector groups and others.
The Harrow CAMH service is based at Ash Tree Clinic in South Harrow. The team is well established and is staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians.
We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work as well as Positive Behaviour Support.
Job Details:
* Job Title: Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist – Harrow CAMHS
* Grade: Band 8A
* Hours: 22.5 hours per week / 0.6 WTE (Permanent)
* Salary: Agenda for Change
* Location: Harrow CAMHS, South Harrow
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