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Assistant Psychologist Lewisham CAMHS Intake | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, Catford, SE6 4JF |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7057596/334-CLI-7057596 |
Summary
Working environment
Lewisham CAMHS Intake Team is a multi-disciplinary team within a Tier 3 community CAMHS service for children and adolescents with a range of mild, moderate and severe/enduring mental health difficulties (e.g. psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe depression/anxiety, complex trauma, emotional instability, and severe self-harm / suicidal behaviour. Many of the young people we work with have ongoing safeguarding issues, LAC experience, and/or underlying complex neurodevelopmental conditions.
The team consists of the clinical service lead, psychiatrist, assistant clinical psychologist and mental health practitioners. The team offers triage and assessment at the point of referral into the service. We work closely alongside wider tier 3 CAMHS teams and specialist tier 4 services, inpatient settings, social care, education, residential services, and other healthcare providers.
The post holder will be supervised by a Senior Clinical Psychologist and have access to peer support from the several Assistant Psychologists based within Lewisham CAMHS.
· To support and enhance the provision of triage and initial assessment and short-term interventions for young people referred to Lewisham CAMHS
· To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance and supervision of a clinical psychologist.
· To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
· To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.
The Intake Team is based at Kaleidoscope, Rushy Green, Catford SE6 4JD.
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
Benefits
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Clinical and Client Care
· To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems
· To conduct psychological assessments of clients accessing the service. This may include clinical interviews, self-report measures, neuropsychological tests, and structured observations.
· To support the delivery of protocol-based individual psychological interventions for young people and families as agreed within clinical supervision.
· To support the delivery and running of therapeutic groups
· Support liaison with other agencies in young people’s professional network.
· To prepare assessment reports and clinical letters.
· To assist in the development of clinical resources or training materials
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
· To attend and contribute to appropriate multi- disciplinary meetings.
· To contribute to the effective working of the service by creating and updating databases to track processes / pathways
· To contribute to the training and support of other staff in developing and providing psychological care of clients.
· To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
· To participate in the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
Policy and service development
· To follow policies and procedures in own area of work
· To participate in the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
Care or management of resources
· To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
· To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting supplies as needed.
· To be responsible for safe keeping of equipment or stock provided to the post holder and informing the supervising psychologist or manager when stock requires replenishing (may apply to psychometric tests, specialised stationery etc.).
Teaching and Training
· To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations or published articles.
· To arrange, schedule and co-facilitate training to employees of the Trust or employees of partner agencies in order to support service improvement.
KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance
· To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
· To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
· To maintain data bases and enter data and perform analyses and produce reports.
Research and development
· To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the service, Psychologists and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision and research activities.
· To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programs.
· To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development in the Trust of evidence-based practice.
· Under guidance to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
· To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines
· To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
· To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
· To undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.
General
· To travel to home visits, community placements, psychology meetings and other locations as appropriate and across the Trust 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
· To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to offer peer support others involved in such situations.
· To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics, within the overall Job Plan.
This advert closes on Friday 11 Apr 2025