Band 5 Senior Assistant Psychologist CAMHS Eating Disorders | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, NW3 1DU |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6380629/391-RFL-6380629 |
Summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a psychology graduate, with good experience of working in clinical settings, to join our busy community CAMHS Eating Disorder service. We have a team of counselling and clinical psychologists, including trainee clinical psychologists, working within the wider multidisciplinary team, and there is good opportunity to develop broad experience of the role of clinical and counselling psychologists in CAMHS eating disorder teams.
The successful candidate will play a key role in our referral, triage and assessment processes, under supervision and in conjunction with the wider MDT. This will involve contacting families, young people and referrers to collect triage information when a young person has been referred to us, arranging assessments, providing initial service information to families, attending assessments with the MDT, writing assessment letters, and overseeing the collection of initial and follow-up routine outcome measures. Other tasks include assisting the team with other aspects of our work, for example the running of our Family Support Package, and contributing to other evaluation and development projects. Where appropriate there is opportunity to gain clinical intervention experience through observing clinical work, joint work with psychologists and others in the MDT, and individual psychology work with young people.
The majority of the role will be based in the Hampstead site, with opportunity for some remote working.
The ideal candidate will be confident in a tier 3 NHS setting, and in working with families and young people at a very difficult time in their lives. They will be a good communicator and team player, self-motivated, and also have good skills in clinical data collection. Main duties are:
• Triage of referrals to the service, under supervision and in conjunction with the MDT, including interagency liaison
• Participation in the team's MDT assessment clinics, with particular focus on formulation, reports, and collection of routine outcome measures
• Overseeing collection of follow up routine outcome measures
• Supporting the team's Family Support Package
• Psychological interventions jointly or independently as appropriate
• Other research, evaluation and development tasks as needed by the team
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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For full description please see attached document. Responsibilities include:
• Being first point of contact with families for newly referred young people and introducing the service
• Independently collecting information to screen and triage all referrals
• Discussing safety plans with parents/carers and signposting to resources prior to assessment.
• Assisting the duty clinician to help patients and families in crisis
• Collecting clinical information to assess risk and urgency and booking into multi-disciplinary assessments.
• Implementing triage decisions in conjunction with daily duty clinician
• Liaising with healthcare professionals such as GP’s and community CAMHS teams to discuss potential referrals to the team.
• Liaising with the paediatric ward to manage patients who have been admitted.
• Assisting in conducting multi-disciplinary initial assessments.
• Overseeing the collection of initial and follow up routine outcomes measures
• Writing clinical assessment letters and formulating impressions with the multi-disciplinary assessing team.
• Assisting in the delivery and development of psychoeducation groups for parents.
• Delivering guided self-help interventions under supervision
• Attending and contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings
• Contributing to outcome monitoring, auditing and service evaluation.
• Assisting in service research projects
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jul 2024