CYP Clinical Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist

at  Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The Havens is London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre. The Havens provide comprehensive forensic, medical and aftercare services to clients who have experienced serious sexual assault within the past 12 months. We are a longstanding partnership initiative between the Mayors’ Office for Policing and Crime and NHS England.
The Children and Young Persons (CYP) Psychology Service at the Havens provides CYP and their families, presenting with psychological difficulties post-sexual abuse with specialist psychological assessment and short to medium term interventions (individual and group programmes). Additionally the service provides forensic interviewing of CYP, alongside being active in audit, research and training.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Practitioner Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC and/or Senior CBT therapist registered with BABCP with experience of working therapeutically with CYP who have experienced sexual trauma. Experience of assessing and managing risk in the context of mental health and safeguarding is vital as well as experience of providing evidence-based short to medium-term therapy. You will need the ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
We are a warm and supportive therapies team who prioritise Trauma-informed care and encourage creativity, welcome diversity and always appreciate ideas on how to improve our service.
You will provide a highly specialist psychology service to CYP who have experienced rape and/or sexual assault, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. You will have clinical responsibility for managing your caseload, waitlists, safeguarding responsibilities, report and letter writing, collection and collation of outcome measures and activity.
You will contribute to enabling other staff and service users from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. You will also help develop the Havens Therapies’ service and ensure the development of strong inter-agency relationships is established.
You will utilise psychological knowledge in initiating and undertaking the development, implementation and review of services for patients and staff. You will provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate (including to clinical psychology trainees and assistants) to promote psychosocial knowledge in the Havens.
You will contribute to audits, research and training in addition to carrying out liaison work with local agencies. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are therefore essential. A willingness to rise to the challenges presented by this area of work and a commitment to providing an excellent service to survivors of sexual assault are also necessary.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Clinical Responsibilities
To manage the psychology waiting list and the psychology provision at one of the Havens’ sites, which offers medical care and other follow up services including psychological interventions, to those who have been raped and sexually assaulted.
To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the CYP Psychology Service at the Havens including:
o Specialist assessment and clinical formulation of children and adolescents who have experienced sexual assault, rape or who have been sexually exploited. To include psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured / semi-structured and unstructured observations and interviews with the client, family members and others involved in their care.
o Specialist evidence-based, medium term, intervention for children and adolescents traumatised by sexual abuse, monitoring outcomes and modifying / adapting intervention as required and drawing on a range of theoretical options, and supporting their transition to local services where appropriate.
Undertaking liaison psychology with The Havens and borough services, including:
Advocates; local borough CAMHS teams; local charity and third sector services; local early support services; and local IAPTS and school counsellors.
To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess risk using standardised tools, and to develop and implement risk management plans on the basis of this information.
To communicate skilfully, complex and sensitive information with clients, parents, carers, and colleagues taking account of sensory, developmental and cultural barriers to communication.
To prepare written reports.
To work as an autonomous professional within Health Professions Council (HPC), BPS and/or BABCP guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
To attend regular clinical supervisio

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