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.

Working for our organisation
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., For full details please see the full job description which will include the following.
+ Clinical and Client Care
+ Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
+ Policy and service development
+ Care or management of resources
+ Management and supervision
+ Teaching and Training
+ Record-keeping and Information Governance
+ Research and development
+ Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.