Barnet CAMHS Lead Psychologist

This 12-month Band 8b post sits within Barnet's community CAMHS service at Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital, part of North London NHS Foundation Trust. The post-holder leads on psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions alongside the part-time Psychology Lead, and takes delegated responsibility for appraisals and supervision of psychology staff. The role sits within a multidisciplinary 0-18 service, covering generic and neurodevelopmental assessment for families across the borough. Doctoral clinical or counselling psychology training and HCPC registration are needed.

What the job involves

• Lead development of psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions for children, young people and families, jointly with the part-time Psychology Lead and senior clinicians
• Hold delegated management responsibility for appraisals and ensure supervision arrangements are in place for psychology staff
• Offer supervision to trainee and qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists
• Deliver generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions for families in the borough
• Exercise responsibility for systematic governance of psychological therapy practice, in collaboration with the Clinical Lead and Head of Therapies
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines
• Co-lead the monthly Psychology Meeting and oversee the continuous professional development of psychologists in the service
• Deputise for the CAMHS Consultant Counselling/Clinical Psychologist in their absence
• Use research skills for audit, policy and service development
• Propose and implement policy changes within the borough CAMHS service and Trust-wide CAMHS forums

Qualifications

• Doctoral clinical psychology training accredited by the BPS, or equivalent for those trained before 1996, covering psychopathology, psychometrics, neuropsychology, two or more psychological therapies and lifespan…
• Completed recognised clinical or counselling psychology supervisor training

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration, with evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC or another professional body

Experience

• Substantial experience as a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in community CAMHS, including extensive psychological therapy with children, young people and families across a wide range of mental health…
• Working with children, young people and families across the full range of clinical severity and care settings, including maintaining professionalism with emotive problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care within a multidisciplinary team or care plan
• Teaching, training and consultation
• Offering clinical supervision to clinical psychologists, trainees and other disciplines delivering psychological therapy

Skills & knowledge

• Complex psychologically based assessment, intervention and management, often requiring sustained concentration
• Communicating technical and clinically sensitive information orally and in writing to clients, families and professionals inside and outside the NHS, and consulting with professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral-level research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Knowledge of legislation on children, young people, safeguarding and mental health
• Containing, exploring and formulating high levels of distress, directly with patients and indirectly through supervision of staff

Other

• Identifying and promoting support for children, families, carers and staff exposed to distressing situations, and applying clinical governance mechanisms to sustain practice
• Developing complex multi-media materials for public, professional and academic presentations
• Interest in developing and delivering new models of service delivery

Nice to have

• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice
• Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and families across the full range of care settings
• Experience of administering and interpreting CAMHS psychometric measures, including ADOS-2 and 3Di
• Experience of applying psychological therapies in different cultural contexts
• Experience of service development
• Experience of representing psychology within multidisciplinary care
• Well-developed knowledge of specialised child and adolescent therapies and assessment, such as autism, OCD and PTSD presentations

What’s offered

• NHS discounts
• Generous annual leave
• NHS pension scheme
• Support for flexible working
• Health and wellbeing initiatives
• Leadership behaviours and managers programme
• Other development opportunities
• Excellent internal staff network

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