Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mai 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £30,963 - £34,338 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7228874/294-CAMHS-7228874-FZ |
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A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
18.75 hours per week Fixed term post - Maternity Cover until June 2026
Our Wandsworth Social Care CAMHS team is looking for a motivated, skilled, and adaptable Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join us for this exciting opportunity. If you are passionate about improving the mental health of young people in the care of the local authority or with allocated social workers and have experience of providing supervision, leadership and service development, we would love to hear from you.
We are a team of Clinical Psychologists and are a valued resource within the local authority, dedicated to implementing trauma-informed practices and offering specialised mental health consultations and interventions to young people, families and their professional networks, to enhance the outcomes for children open to Social Care.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with young people facing a range of systemic challenges. In this role, you will be undertaking complex assessments, offering individual therapy, providing consultations to social workers and foster carers, facilitating groups and delivering training. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience and training in Evidence-Based Trauma Focused interventions and ideally additional training such as NVR, DDP.
We work in collaboration with our colleagues in the Access Assessment service, Tier 3 CAMHS and the neurodevelopmental team to provide a comprehensive mental health services to children involved with social services.
Wandsworth CAMHS Teams
Wandsworth CAMHS teams serve a diverse London borough. We value inclusivity in our service and are actively working in partnership with community organisations to reach young people who find ‘traditional’ routes of mental health services not accessible to them. We recognise the importance of staff development and career progression and there are trust- wide CPD opportunities available (e.g., EMDR; IPT-A; DDP, NVR). We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
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.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Clinical
1. Toprovide specialist assessments ofyoung children and their parents/carersreferred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complexdata from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertakerisk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. Tocommunicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. Tomonitor progress during the course of interventions,ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025
18.75 hours per week Fixed term post - Maternity Cover until June 2026
Our Wandsworth Social Care CAMHS team is looking for a motivated, skilled, and adaptable Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join us for this exciting opportunity. If you are passionate about improving the mental health of young people in the care of the local authority or with allocated social workers and have experience of providing supervision, leadership and service development, we would love to hear from you.
We are a team of Clinical Psychologists and are a valued resource within the local authority, dedicated to implementing trauma-informed practices and offering specialised mental health consultations and interventions to young people, families and their professional networks, to enhance the outcomes for children open to Social Care.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with young people facing a range of systemic challenges. In this role, you will be undertaking complex assessments, offering individual therapy, providing consultations to social workers and foster carers, facilitating groups and delivering training. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience and training in Evidence-Based Trauma Focused interventions and ideally additional training such as NVR, DDP.
We work in collaboration with our colleagues in the Access Assessment service, Tier 3 CAMHS and the neurodevelopmental team to provide a comprehensive mental health services to children involved with social services.
Wandsworth CAMHS Teams
Wandsworth CAMHS teams serve a diverse London borough. We value inclusivity in our service and are actively working in partnership with community organisations to reach young people who find ‘traditional’ routes of mental health services not accessible to them. We recognise the importance of staff development and career progression and there are trust- wide CPD opportunities available (e.g., EMDR; IPT-A; DDP, NVR). We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
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.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Clinical
1. Toprovide specialist assessments ofyoung children and their parents/carersreferred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complexdata from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy,to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertakerisk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. Tocommunicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. Tomonitor progress during the course of interventions,ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025