Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7108596
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Rutter Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Specialist Practitioner (N&S MCCAED - ITP)
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
• We are inviting applications from enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists / Family Therapists / Clinical Nurse Specialists for a full-time Band 7 post with our ITP Team. Are you someone who enjoys working with young people, is a team player, can bring experience of working with young people & families or eating disorders, and is willing to be flexible according to client need? Do you love to learn and want to make a real contribution to developing excellent standards of care? If so, we are keen to meet you!
Main duties of the job
• We are a friendly, welcoming, fast developing, innovative, national and specialist ITP day programme team working with young people (11 - 17 years) and their families. We offer an inclusive and supportive team environment and are keen to support your professional development and wellbeing.
• To deliver specialist applied psychotherapeutic service in the MCCAED Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP day hospital). Working collaboratively to assess the needs of the service users, planning, implementing and evaluating the care given in ITP.
• To provide clinical work as required by the service. This will involve facilitation of therapeutic groups, and individual and family therapy sessions.
• To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager as needed.
• To provide daily therapeutic meal support to young people. This involves staff eating snacks and lunch alongside young people. Meals within the programme are timed, with the expectation that staff are able to eat what is required within the time frame (10 minutes for snacks, 15 minutes for lunch, 20 minutes for dinner). For lunches, a vegetarian and meat option are available daily, however where possible staff should be able to eat what the young people eat.
• Due to the nature of the service, the role will be primarily face-to-face, with the occasional option to work from home during half terms.
Working for our organisation
About our location: The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders is based at the Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, Maudsley Hospital, which is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). Our Trust headquarters is also located at Denmark Hill.
Flexible working: As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (The hours may include working early mornings, late evenings or some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical and Client Care
• To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within the day programme (ITP). This will include specialist interventions for young people with anorexia nervosa including group facilitation, therapeutic meal support, and individual and family therapeutic work.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within the MCCAED outpatient team (small caseload alongside ITP). This may include specialist interventions for young people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders.
• Assessment and treatment of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, self-harm and OCD.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management, including drawing up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as care coordinator taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.
• To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To contribute to the effective working of MCCAED and to a psychotherapeutic framework for the service.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations.
Policy and service development
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
Management and supervision
• To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of trainees / assistants if required, under supervision from a more senior clinician.
• To supervise trainees within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Training Course’s Supervision Training.
• To take responsibility for seeking supervision and support for yourself and not going beyond your scope of practice.
• Provision of consultation or training to other professionals.
Teaching and Training
• To provide occasional specialist training in psychotherapeutic approaches to care to other professions as appropriate.
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
Research and development
• To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to professional regulations and Trust guidelines.
General
• To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to work some hours outside of normal office hours (e.g. until 6.30pm on one or two evenings per week), within the overall Job Plan. It is expected that you may need to work some hours outside of normal office hours and be flexible in your ability to change your working pattern frequently and at short notice to meet the needs of the service. This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or MSc PG Diploma or Doctorate in Counselling Psychology or equivalent nursing or family therapy qualification . (A/I) OR First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RNLD
- Training in clinical supervision. (A/I)
- Post Grad Diploma Specialist Training (A/I)
- Registration (or eligibility for registration) with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or equivalent professional registration with AFT, UKCP, NMC. (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients with a range of mental health needs of a complex nature. (A/I)
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience. (A/I)
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects. (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of a wide range of psychopathology and the evidence base for relevant treatment. (A/I)
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. (A/I)
- Knowledge of research methodology and complex statistical analysis. (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria
- To deliver psychotherapeutic interventions across diverse client groups. (A/I)
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I)
- To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers, and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews. (A/I)
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I)
- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self. (A/I)
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 Lucinda Gledhill
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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