Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-SS-9075-D
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peace Children's Centre, Peace Prospect, Watford, WD17 3EW
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the HPFT CAMHS South and shape service delivery.
You will be based in a multi-disciplinary community CAMHS covering the South quadrant of Hertfordshire. There are two main sites, one in Watford and one in Borehamwood. CAMHS South is a welcoming and developing team that prides itself on providing excellent evidence-based interventions. You will have the opportunity to work alongside side other systemic psychotherapists, child psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and psychiatry.
You will have HCPC registration and provide a highly specialist child and adolescent service within the context of the principles of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach) and CYP-IAPT, providing both Core work and Specific/Specialist work including contributing to provision of a specific model of evidence-based therapeutic intervention across the CAMHS South clinics.
You will also have strong links with professional colleagues in the wider CAMHS. In addition to the inpatient unit, our CAMHS includes a Tier 4 Home Treatment Team, four community clinic Tier 3 teams, a Targeted Team for looked after children, a specialist Eating Disorder Team, a Crisis Team and a DBT team.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and
consultation work with children, adolescents and their families, with
problems of behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues, providing Core work (as defined by CAPA) and in addition contributing to Specific/Specialist work (as defined by CAPA) as agreed with Community CAMHS Managers and Professional leads.
To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and
adolescent mental health services for the quadrant, in line with the
principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of
families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire NHS Partnership Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibility
- To assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual
children and young people, carers and families with complex
behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues. - To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children
and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the
network of significant relationships. - To be responsible for a defined caseload selecting and using
appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals
privileging core skills as appropriate. - To develop, implement and manage specialised interventions within
the child/young person’s context, employing evidence based practice. - To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
- To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
- To carry out assessments and interventions jointly with co-workers
from the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate. - To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local
policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and
mental health
Person specification
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
- Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate 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
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
- Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
- Positive problem solving approach
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lumi Henshaw
- Job title
- Consultant Lead Psychological Therapies
- Telephone number
- 01923 470 610
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