This post sits within the children and young people's mental health service (CYPMHS) at Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. The core work is delivering and supervising therapeutic interventions, from parent work and group work to school observations and specialist treatment. The post holder is responsible for specialist assessments and treatments within their expertise and supervises assistant psychologists across locality teams. Applicants need postgraduate clinical training and eligibility for registration with a professional body such as HCPC, AFT or ACP.
What the job involves
- Provide a specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers and families
- Deliver and supervise therapeutic interventions, including parent work, group work, school observations, short-term CYPMHS input and specialist treatments
- Be responsible for all specialist psychological assessments and treatments within professional expertise in CYPMHS
- Supervise assistant psychologists across locality teams where appropriate
- Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families
- Undertake clinical work, assessment work and parenting support
- Contribute to audit and research
- Monitor treatment outcomes, including normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT
- Work in clinical practice using supervision, within the CYPMHS framework and Trust policies and procedures
What’s required
Qualifications
- Successful completion of post-graduate training, such as clinical psychology, family therapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy
Registration & licences
- Eligibility for registration as a full member of an appropriate professional body, such as HCPC, AFT or ACP
Experience
- Working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children and young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
- Working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma
- Therapeutic work with parents, carers and families of children with complex mental health problems
- Using observation, such as in school settings, to contribute to assessments of children
- Carrying out generic assessment with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team
- Carrying out specialist assessment autonomously to determine the most appropriate treatment plan
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of short-term and long-term clinical interventions in CAMHS
- Knowledge of legislation for children and adolescents, and safeguarding procedures and policies
- Knowledge of NHS, social care and education structures, national policy, and evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines
- Knowledge of risk management, including monitoring and assessing risk and acting to ensure safety
- Knowledge of research and outcome research methodology, and ability to critically interpret findings
- Specialist skill in communicating complex, technical or clinically sensitive information verbally and in writing to clients, families and professionals
Checks & eligibility
- Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes, unless disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010
Other
- Personal resilience and aptitude for challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work
Nice to have
- Experience in quality improvement projects
- Experience delivering reflective practice
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary team
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
