Job Description

We are delighted to be advertising this Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist role within our Lewisham CAMHS Core Tier 3 Team (Horizon). We welcome applications from final year Trainee Psychologists and CBT Therapists with provisional accreditation with the BABCP where it looks likely they will achieve their full accreditation within the year (please see person specification).



We strongly advise contacting us if you are interested in applying for this role.



To provide psychological and/or psychotherapeutic assessment, formulation and treatment service within the Horizon Team (Core tier 3 CAMHS Team) in Lewisham CAMHS.



To manage a caseload as a Care Coordinator.



To utilise outcome measures and service user feedback to inform collaborative care planning, monitoring and supporting the journey of young people through the Lewisham CAMHS Service.



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 to assistant psychologists and, depending of experience, band 6 qualified staff.



Consultation as appropriate.



To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.



To work as an autonomous professional within BABCP/HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

Flexible working:

Although these are full time posts, we would be happy to consider part time work / job shares in line with service need.



As one of the few Trusts in London we are happy to talk about flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.



Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides a diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, including those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems. The service's Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams include: Horizon (generic); Neuro Developmental Team; Symbol (Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (severe and enduring mental health problems); ARTS (at risk forensic); Paediatric Liaison Service; MHST (Mental Health in Schools); CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners); Intake; and Crisis. Lewisham CAMHS focuses on providing high quality mental health support to young people locally. We continually identify and address any potentially barriers or inequalities in regards to access to, and input from, our service, as well as continually improving areas of staff wellbeing and equality within the staff group.



This post is clinically based within the generic team (Horizon) and the leadership component extends to the rest of Lewisham CAMHS. Horizon is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in the Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford, an award-winning purpose-built building that brings together specialist community services for health, disability, mental health, education and social care.



KR 1 Clinical and Client Care



To provide psychological/ CBT assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Horizon Team.



To provide culturally appropriate services and to promote equality and access to all.



To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.



To act as care coordinator for a full caseload, taking responsibility for initiating care planning and reviewing care plans and outcomes, offering collaborative care co-ordination and coordinating / attending meetings appropriate professional network meetings as required.



To support the Duty Services we offer to children and young people accessing the Horizon team.



KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning



To contribute to the effective working of the Horizon Team 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 liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.



KR 3 Policy and service development



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.



KR 4 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 or ordering supplies as needed.



KR 5 Management and supervision



To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior staff if required, under supervision from a senior within the Horizon Team / Service.



KR 6 Teaching and Training



To provide occasional specialist training in psychological / CBT/psychotherapeutic approaches to care to other professions as appropriate, including interagency training.



To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.



KR 7 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.



KR 8 Research and development



To undertake regular service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.



KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development



To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to HCPC/ BABCP and Trust guidelines.



To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC/ BABCP '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/ BABCP 'Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics' and 'Standards of Proficiency', and ensure professional development in line with these.



To adhere to the Trust policies and procedures.