Lead Clinical Psychologist - Evergreen, CAMHS Tier 4

East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) has embarked on a very exciting journey to develop our specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). In 2021, NHS England confirmed additional funding to develop an interim acute mental health inpatient unit for Children and Young People in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, called Evergreen.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Senior Clinical Psychologist.

They will lead on the psychological therapies provision within the unit. Although this post is banded at 8b and may typically involve more management responsibilities, the successful postholder will predominantly be ensuring the development and direct provision of an autonomous and systemic highly specialist clinical service for adolescents with complex mental health needs and their families, including highly specialist assessments.

We have been innovative in developing pathways with our Crisis and Home Treatment teams which provides a quality service to deliver treatment in the community and focus is on helping young people achieve their potential and thrive. You will work alongside these established teams to ensure essential in patient treatment is seamlessly and efficiently delivered and continued when the young person is discharged.

About us

The development of the new service has been done in conjunction with children, parents and carers who have experience of inpatient admission. Young People have helped us plan the ethos of the unit, recruit the staff and think about how we can deliver the best care. We're really proud of the co-leadership with young people to improve mental health services. If you join us you will have a unique opportunity to truly collaborate to improve their outcomes.

The unit will provide specialist, short-term care for children and young people aged 13-17 with severe or complex mental health difficulties. You will be working alongside a diverse multi-disciplinary team that reflects the population that we serve. Our vision is to make a positive difference in young people's lives by providing the highest quality mental health service to our local communities, to help them overcome some of life's challenges.

In the long term, a dedicated and permanent CAMHS unit will be developed in the proposed new build that the trust is developing in Luton/Bedford. This post is substantive, as staff recruited into this role will have the opportunity to transition into the permanent unit.

Job responsibilities

This post will be based at Evergreen Tier 4 Unit for Children and Young people in Luton, and is 0.6WTE.

Please see the job description for more information on this particular role.

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Person Specification Education/ Qualification/ Training

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Post doctoral training in supervision.
• Post Doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Management training.
• Breakaway training.
• Post qualification training in Early Interventions with psychosis; Complex Mental health presentations in adolescence and / or Cognitive or neurodevelopmental assessments with children and adolescents
• Post Doctoral Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Experience

• Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent clinical psychology
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
• 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator / care manager and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
• Experience of the application of psychology and delivering services in different cultural contexts

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,455 to £74,896 a yearper annum, pro rata