Clinical Psychologist Adolescent Treatment Team

The Adolescent Treatment Team (ATT) has a vacancy for a full time clinical psychologist in the team. ATT supports the mental wellbeing of complex and high risk young people based in the London Borough of Lewisham, we need a clinical psychologist/CBT therapist who can work in a team to stabilise, formulate, offer evidence based treatments and discharge these vulnerable young people. We support young people who have mental health issues such as first episode psychosis, bipolar, emotional instability, trauma, autism, learning challenges, anxiety and depression.

The team require a candidate with some experience of working in CAMHS and knowledge of managing risk and safeguarding. There will be some care coordination for a small number of children and the provision of evidence bases treatments. The team is mostly based in the clinic but occasionally there will be home visits and some outreach.

The team is made up of psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing, family therapy and social workers. The team are supportive and caring, we work together to manage the needs of vulnerable children, we provide supervision and training and an opportunity to develop specific interests. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experince in CAMHS within a supportive, caring environment.,

• To provide a specialist CBT, and, if qualified, Clinical Psychology service to CAMHS including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.


• To have a balanced caseload of care coordination and therapeutic intervention.


• 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.


• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.


• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS (if appropriate) and HCPC/BABCP 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.
  
  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has the largest child and adolescent mental health service in the country. National leaders in their field, working in both the Trust and associated Universities have a profound influence on our understanding of mental health problems in childhood, on the development of treatment approaches and on service development and evaluation. The service is made up of five clinical units: National & Specialist and the boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth and Croydon.


Staff within the CAG provide the main national training programmes for under and post-graduate trainees from all the key mental health professions, it is important to ensure that academic, and service interests work in a collaborative and mutually beneficial way. Child and adolescent mental health services have a history of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working and it is important to nurture these different perspectives to effectively contribute to the national policy of cross-agency collaboration.