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We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Site Ash Tree Clinic Harrow CAMHS Town South Harrow Salary £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum incl. HCAS pro rata if PT Salary period Yearly Closing 21/07/:59

Job overview Whatwearelooking for?

Harrow CAMHS is looking for a Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychologist (Full time, band 7) to join our friendly, supportive, and experienced multi-disciplinary specialist mental health service. The post involves workinginourEnhancedTreatmentSub-Team(ETT)andalsoprovidingDialecticalBehaviourTherapy(DBT) in Harrow CAMHS for 2.5 days a week. Time in DBT is guaranteed.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled clinician who is able to maintain clinical curiosity and keen to engage in reflective practice as well as be able to be an advocate for children, young people and families' needs.ClinicianswhohavepreviousexperiencewithinCAMHSsettingsandworkingwithyoungpeoplewho have complex needs associated with a diagnosis of "emerging personality disorder" would be of benefit. We will be accepting applications from final year Clinical Psychology trainees.

Main duties of the job Whatdoesthepost entail?

Youwillhelptheserviceprovidespecialistmentalhealthandneurodevelopmentalassessmentsalongsidea variety of psychological interventions (e.g. CBT, ACT, TF-CBT, DBT, parenting work, groups and family / systemic work) for a broad range of complex mental health concerns and neurodevelopmental differences experienced by children, young people and families within a socially, economically and culturally diverse London borough.

InyourroleasHarrowDBTTherapist,youwillattendregularconsultteammeetings,holdacaseloadofat least 4 DBT individual cases, co-facilitate the DBT-A Multi-Family Skills group, provide telephone consultation to DBT cases, and provide consultation to the network where needed. Specialised DBT supervision will also be provided.

Whatwillweprovide you?

The post provides an excellent opportunity for clinicians to develop their skills and knowledge via regular clinical supervision, being part of Quality Improvement (QI) projects, CPS opportunities as well as multi- disciplinary working within experienced team of Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Nurses, Child WellbeingPractitioners,PsychiatristsandClinical/CounsellingPsychologists.FoundationalDBTtrainingwill also be fully funded for the successful candidate.

Working for our organisation We'repassionateaboutdeliveringfirst-classpatient-centred,safeandeffectivecareinacommunitysetting or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providing top quality care dependsonourabilitytoemploythebestpeople.Wearealwayslookingtorecruitoutstandingpeoplewho will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

Withevery new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Enhancement Treatment,learningdisabilitiesandmorewhateverstageofyourcareeryou'reat,there'salwaysaplacefor you at CNWL.

You will work from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm service for young people experiencing mental health problemsinHarrowarea.ThepostwillbebasedwithintheAshTreeClinic,SouthHarrowandthepostholder will be expected to maintain the close links with the Hospital.

The Ash Tree Clinic (Harrow CAMHS) is easily accessible by train from Kings Cross station, Oxford Circus, Euston, and Victoria, within around 45 minutes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To join the multi-disciplinary CAMH Service in the delivery of mental health care to children and young people and their families, including involvement in the multi-disciplinary assessment pathway.
• Toworkautonomously,withsupportfromthestaffinthe EnhancedTreatmentTeaminHarrowCAMHS, as well as 2.5 days dedicated to the DBT Team in Harrow for CNWL CAMHS.
• Toworkwithcolleagueswithinthepathwaytoensuresystemicandhigh -quality provisionofassessment andbothindividualandgrouptreatments.Thisrolewilljoinupreferralandsupportforclientsidentified in the inpatientsetting to be suitable for DBT orother relevant care and support as they are discharged intothecommunity.Toliaisewithcolleaguesfromotherpathwaystoensureseamlessdelivery of services.
• To work as part of the DBT team developing the DBT based ethos within the team and to facilitate training, supervision and development as required.
• Toprovidespecialistclinicalpsychologyinputtochildrenandyoungpeopleandtheir families.
• To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy including specialist assessments for neurodevelopmental concerns (e.g. ASD and ADHD).
• To offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues from all disciplines and to individuals external to CAMHS working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• To support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other professionals and to offer supervision as agreed per job plan.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and researchwithin the areas served by the services.
• Toworkautonomouslywithinprofessionalguidelinesandexerciseresponsibilityforthe systematic governanceofone'spsychological practice.

Person specification Education and Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, or counselling psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Training should include specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist: Clinical Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice especially relevant to complex CAMHS. In particular: Research CYP-IAPT Therapy Training Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) ADOS-2
• Specialist training in CBT, DBT or MBT for personality disorders

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 within a multidisciplinary Specialist CAMHS team and of proving specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
• Experience of delivering evidence-based treatment using a range of modalities in a number of cultural contexts
• Experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other therapies to young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other neurodevelopmental differences (e.g. Learning Disabilities).
• Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
• Supervised experience of evidence based treatment in relation to children with mental health concerns

Knowledge and Skills

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
• Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration, in particular as applied to complex problems including cognitive behavioural methods
• Knowledge of the theoretical evidence base for understanding, formulating and providing interventions for mental health concerns experienced by children and young people.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Experience of working therapeutically with people with Personality Disorder or challenging behaviour
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