Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6828105
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Rutter Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum Incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Specialist Practitioner (N&S MCCAED ITP)
NHS AfC: Band 7
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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 Ìýin 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology Ìýto 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.ÌýWe therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.Ìý
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.
Job overview
We are inviting applications from enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists / Family Therapists / Clinical Nurse Specialists for a full-time Band 7 post with our ITP Team. Are you someone who enjoys working with young people, is a team player, can bring experience of working with young people & families or eating disorders, and is willing to be flexible according to client need? If so, we are keen to meet you!ÌýÌý
We are a friendly, welcoming, fast developing, innovative, national and specialist ITP day programme team working with young people (11 - 17 years) and their families.Ìý
ÌýThe Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP) of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) is an intensive day programme for young people with restrictive eating disorders who have not been able to make progress in outpatient treatment and who may be at risk of being admitted for inpatient treatment.ÌýÌý
ITP is a therapeutic group programme, with groups taking principles from CBT for Eating Disorders, Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Remediation Therapy, and Art Therapy, as well as CBT for comorbid difficulties (anxiety, low mood, perfectionism etc).Ìý
ÌýYou will contribute to the provision of services to meet the needs of these young people in the MCCAED ITP Service – this includes but is not limited to therapeutic meal supervision, facilitation of therapeutic groups, facilitation of individual therapy sessions and family-therapy for Anorexia Nervosa. Ìý
Main duties of the job
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To deliver specialist applied psychotherapeutic service in the MCCAED Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP day hospital). Working collaboratively to assess the needs of the service users, planning, implementing and evaluating the care given in ITP.ÌýÌý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide clinical work as required by the service. This will involve facilitation of therapeutic groups, and individual and family therapy sessions.Ìý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager as needed.Ìý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide daily therapeutic meal support to young people. This involves staff eating snacks and lunch alongside young people. Meals within the programme are timed, with the expectation that staff are able to eat what is required within the time frame (10 minutes for snacks, 15 minutes for lunch, 20 minutes for dinner). For lunches, a vegetarian and meat option are available daily, however where possible staff should be able to eat what the young people eat.ÌýÌý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Due to the nature of the service, the role will be primarily face-to-face, with the occasional option to work from home during half terms.ÌýÌý
Working for our organisation
About our location:
The Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders is based at the Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, Maudsley Hospital, which is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). Our Trust headquarters is also located at Denmark Hill.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (The hours may include working early mornings, late evenings or some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical and Client Care
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within the day programme (ITP). This will include specialist interventions for young people with anorexia nervosa including group facilitation, therapeutic meal support, and individual and family therapeutic work.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients within the MCCAED outpatient team (small caseload alongside ITP). This may include specialist interventions for young people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other eating disorders.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Assessment and treatment of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, self-harm and OCD.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide culturally appropriate psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management, including drawing up appropriate risk management plans.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To act as care coordinator taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management
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Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To contribute to the effective working of MCCAED and to a psychotherapeutic framework for the service.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations.Ìý
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Policy and service development
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
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Management and supervision
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of trainees / assistants if required, under supervision from a more senior clinician.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To supervise trainees within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Training Course’s Supervision Training.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To take responsibility for seeking supervision and support for yourself and not going beyond your scope of practice.Ìý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Provision of consultation or training to other professionals.
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Teaching and Training
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide occasional specialist training in psychotherapeutic approaches to care to other professions as appropriate.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.
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Research and development
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.
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Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to professional regulations and Trust guidelines.
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General
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to work some hours outside of normal office hours (e.g. until 6.30pm on one or two evenings per week), within the overall Job Plan. It is expected that you may need to work some hours outside of normal office hours and be flexible in your ability to change your working pattern frequently and at short notice to meet the needs of the service.ÌýThis may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or MSc PG Diploma or Doctorate in Counselling. Psychology or equivalent nursing or family therapy qualification (A/I) OR First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RNLD
- Training in clinical supervision . (A/I)
- Post Grad Diploma Specialist Training.
- Registration (or eligibility for registration) with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or equivalent professional registration with AFT, UKCP, NMC . (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs. (A/I)
- Experience of psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of clients with a range of mental health needs of a complex nature. (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Theoretical knowledge of a wide range of psychopathology and the evidence base for relevant treatment. (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I)
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lucinda Gledhill
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3228 2545
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