Job description

Job responsibilities

1. 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 including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, when and where appropriate.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.

Job responsibilities

1. 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 including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, when and where appropriate.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

• The post holder must have a core profession and as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Systemic Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Desirable

• Training in an area related to CYP IAPT, for example - CBT, Systemic or parenting approaches. This may be covered within the primary therapeutic training qualification or supplement it.

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Candidates will need evidence working therapeutically/ clinically or consultatively within a CYP Education or Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.

Desirable

• Previous experience of supervising clinicians

Skills And Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
• Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RiO) and database/statistical applications e.g. Excel, SPSS)

Desirable

• Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities

Essential

• A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation
• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Education & Qualification

Essential

• The post holder must have a core profession and as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Systemic Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Desirable

• Training in an area related to CYP IAPT, for example - CBT, Systemic or parenting approaches. This may be covered within the primary therapeutic training qualification or supplement it.

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Candidates will need evidence working therapeutically/ clinically or consultatively within a CYP Education or Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.

Desirable

• Previous experience of supervising clinicians

Skills And Abilities

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
• Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RiO) and database/statistical applications e.g. Excel, SPSS)

Desirable

• Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities

Essential

• A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation
• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Baytree House

Christchurch Close

Enfield

EN2 6NZ

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)