Job Description

The CAMHS Enhanced Treatment Service (ETS) team is an innovative and friendly team that is passionate about improving care for the young people that we work with. The aim of the service is to improve the quality of care for young people by providing a care pathway back to outpatient services for young people who have been admitted as inpatients or to provide an intensive treatment package as an alternative admission for cases where treatment in Tier 3 CAMHS is not viable. We offer both day care and outreach models of intervention.



We aim to reduce A&E presentations and hospital admissions and offer the least restrictive interventions to provide consistent access to rapid,

effective interventions, support and recovery - including crisis services. This includes better use of resources and investing to develop more local,

community-based services and support.



We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to be part of a pioneering team which is vital to our plans to transform CAMHS Tier 4 services across South London. The service will work in collaboration with the South London Partnership (SLP) Crisis Service and will link with the three mental health trusts in the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership. South London Partnership's CAMHS New Models of Care Programme aims to transform services through partnership-working; delivering best practice consistently to support young people and their families.



To provide a highly specialist psychology service to children, young people and families under the care of the Enhanced Treatment Service including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, with oversight by a senior Psychologist To undertake service evaluation, audit and research. To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.

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 i mportant to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service. Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing. Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes. Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars. Accommodation. Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites. NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services

Wellbeing events

Long service awards

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Childcare vouchers

Staff restaurant



To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Enhanced Treatment Service, including working with young people with complex mental health needs, behaviour that challenges and high levels of risk. This will be based on the post holder's good theoretical knowledge of psychological theories, up to date knowledge of literature and evidence-based practice and informed by Doctoral level training. This would be within the limits of a Band 7 role. To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. To be responsible for a specialist caseload of young people, often who have complex mental health needs and/or behaviour that challenges. This may also include a care-coordinator role where the post holder will take responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA coordination, leading meetings and assessing/monitoring risk and drawing up appropriate risk management plans. To participate and lead in specialist assessments and care plans for a wide range of children and young people who present with mental health difficulties to the Enhanced Treatment Service or the Centralised Crisis teams. To provide specialist clinical psychology skill, assessments, therapeutic input and consultation. Children and young people accessing the service will have a range of presentations including anxiety, low mood, behavioural, emotional, and developmental and neurodevelopmental concerns which may not be diagnosed. To offer specialist therapeutic group work to parents and young people referred to the service To undertake specialist standardised cognitive assessments, producing psychometric reports, as and when required, to contribute to the formulation of a child or young person's difficulties from a neuropsychological perspective. Responsibility for the management of restricted test materials; interpretation of findings of neuropsychological assessments and the provision of culturally appropriate reports of the findings and the implications of these. To conduct occasional observations of children in school. To use self-report and other screening measures to assess for comorbid difficulties or aid in differential diagnosis. To teach and support parents and carers in building skills in managing and coping with mental health concerns, to improve the parent-child relationship. 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 challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations. E.g leading debriefs. To contribute to the effective working of the Enhanced Treatment service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service. To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes. To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities. To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects. 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 or ordering supplies as needed. To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists, under supervision from a more senior psychologist. To contribute to the appraisal of more junior psychologists, as appropriate. To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Training Course's Supervision Training. To provide supervision for the psychological work of other multi-disciplinary staff as appropriate. To provide occasional specialist training in psychological approaches to care to other professions as appropriate. To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the ETS team by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and crisis services and by implementing specialist knowledge gained in practice To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. 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 undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs. To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines. To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC 'Standards for Continuing Professional Development'. To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies. To comply with the HCPC 'Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics' and 'Standards of Proficiency', and ensure professional development in line with these. To adhere to the BPS's Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures. To travel to home visits, community settings and psychology meetings 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 such as challenging behaviour and to support others involved in such situations.