Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead

Sutton CAMHS is a friendly and experienced MDT CAMHS team in South West London. All CAMHS clinicians are trained and experienced in understanding and treating young people and their families. The team works together to try and think about what professional best meets the child’s needs.

The team includes:

• Child & Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrists.
• Clinical & Counselling Psychologists:
• Systemic Family Psychotherapist:
• Risk Management Nurse
• Service Manager
• Administrators

Sutton CAMHS offers a range of evidence-based interventions in line with the young person’s needs and as agreed with the family through care planning. Our work is time-limited, targeted, and goal-focused, and treatment progress is reviewed regularly. The services provide assessments for children and young people presenting with moderate to severe mental health conditions, formulation, diagnosis, and recommendations for treatments including:

• Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT),
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Compassion Focused therapy (CFT)
• Trauma Focused CBT and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Family/Systemic therapy
• Pharmacotherapy (medication) with advice and monitoring
• Consultations and network meetings with other professionals

Main duties of the job

The Consultant Psychologists and Professional Lead will be responsible for co-ordination of the below, and leadership oversight in relation to the Sutton SPA, the Tier 2 provision in Sutton and Merton, and the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team (NDT):

• Clinical delivery including assessment, intervention, consultation, and training
• Clinical Governance systems, including safe and effective practice, demand and capacity management, and supervision of staff
• Liaison with the relevant staff in the local authority, voluntary sector partners, and education partners, to ensure close multi-agency working.
• Supervision and oversight of Psychology and Psychotherapies provision across Place

Clinical hours will be situated in the Sutton CAMHS SPA services.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history, and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ – we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our locations:

Jubilee Health Centre, Wallington

Our community hub in Sutton is based at the Jubilee Health Centre in Wallington, close to a vibrant high street with easy walking distance from Wallington station.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Within a delineated area of the CAMHS and Eating Disorders Service Line:

• To lead in the development and the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology and psychotherapy service to children and young people.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to exercise delegated responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological and psychotherapy practice.
• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychologists and psychotherapists, and to support the CAMHS Head of Psychology and Psychotherapies in ensuring that all children and young people receive high quality psychological therapies.
• To establish and maintain clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs.
• To carry out audit, policy, service development, and research activities relevant to a designated area of service.
• In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, to develop and implement policy and practice within a designated area of service.
• In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, to propose and implement service developments within CAMHS.
• To lead on areas of quality improvement and service development delegated by the CAMHS Head of Psychology and Psychotherapies.
• To lead on liaison with adult services psychology and psychotherapy staff to ensure good transition processes are in place.
• To provide clinical work to the highest standards of practice. To provide guidance regarding formulation where children and young people’s needs are particularly complex.
• To have up-to-date knowledge of research relating to a wide range of presentations and disorders in children and young people.
• To contribute to the development of CAMHS Services regionally and nationally.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Experience

Essential

• Significant, demonstrable, and evidenced experience of working as a qualified psychologist in child and adolescent mental health services including significant post-qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient, and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of the application of psychology and psychotherapy in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychotherapists and clinical psychologists.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty.

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Jubilee Health Centre

Wallington

SM6 0HY

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