CAMHS HTT Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Job overview
We are looking for a highly skilled and committed Clinical Psychologist to join the NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team (Tier 4). This post will be based at St Ann’s Hospital delivering specialist home treatment service for children and adolescents (12-18 years) across the NCL’s five boroughs of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington.
NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team is an innovative project pioneering delivery of highly intensive multidisciplinary community care to young people within the NCL area. Objectives of this team are to providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way, such as by preventing admissions, or to shorten the length of inpatient admissions by providing a pathway for discharge to home. The team is multi-disciplinary and offers a therapeutic and risk management brief intervention (up to 12 weeks). This post is an exciting opportunity not only to utilise a range of clinical skills while working with young people and complex systems, but also to be actively involved in team development.
We need a candidate with a ‘can do’ and flexible attitude so that they can successfully integrate and contribute to our dynamic service. They will have experience of working with children and young people, offering psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions within a community CAMHS service or Tier 4 CAMHS setting.
They will provide a specialist clinical psychology service to clients served by the NCL CAMHS Home Treatment Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy to clients and offering advice, consultation and supervision on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. They will need to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will receive supervision in line with BPS guidelines and will have access to the free Psychology CPD programme running in the Trust.
They will be expected to provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non-psychologists, as required.
They will make positive contributions to any future service developments and the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care pathways.
Please contact Dr Shona Lavey-Khan Clinical Psychologist and Lead Psychologist for CAMHS Risk Pathway and or Christopher Ashogba CAHMS HTT Team manager for further information
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
To engage young people and their families with evidence based psychological assessment and treatment, which is bespoke and formulation driven.
To work within a multi-disciplinary team and support team formulation. To contribute to care plans which mitigate risk and improve outcomes for young people.
To engage in risk assessment and risk management plans in conjunction with the team, involving other agencies or services as appropriate to ensure patient safety, in the midst of crisis’ or emergency.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. This may include systemic methodologies, psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To provide an understanding of best practice and the evidence base in relation to working with this client group.
To engage in consultation, teaching and training as appropriate. To liaise with colleagues across the systems around young people.
To support with team development on an individual and system wide level, and to build relationships with related teams.
To provide supervision for more junior psychology colleagues, as appropriate.
To engage in regular CPD to keep your knowledge up to date, within the trust’s CPD offer.
To embody Compassionate Leadershi

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