Job Title: CAMHS Clinical Psychologist for Looked After Children
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £73,304.59 to £80,567.67
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date:31/01/2025
Whatever you want from your career, you have the scope to find it here. We foster a work approach based on mutual support and collaboration, where everyone feels empowered to empower others. You’ll find countless opportunities to learn, develop and grow a rewarding career where we recognises the importance of your personal and professional well-being. By considering moving internally across the Public Service, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey.
Job Overview
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of vulnerable children?
CAMHS are building on our offer for children in care on the island; the psychologist will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, specialised psychological services to our island's most at-risk youth and their families.
As a Clinical Psychologist, you will conduct highly specialised assessments, develop tailored care plans, and implement evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. Your expertise will be crucial in conducting high-level risk assessments and managing associated risks, ensuring each child receives the comprehensive support they need.
In addition to direct clinical work, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including teachers, social workers, and voluntary sector workers, fostering a holistic approach to care.
You will also provide clinical consultation and supervision to team members, ensuring the highest standards of psychological practice. Providing training to the system in aid of supporting the young person.
CAMHS is expanding its services to enhance support for the island's most vulnerable children. This includes developing and coordinating intensive multi-agency care packages and extending our services to children in residential and foster care settings. Your role will be integral to this exciting development, offering the opportunity to be at the forefront of service innovation and delivery.
Job Purpose
- Deliver a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to children and families in the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. This will involve providing highly specialised assessments, formulations, and interventions to young people and their families who are presenting with highly complex needs and presentations, utilising a range of psychological approaches and interventions.
Job Specific Outcomes
- Provide highly specialised psychological assessments for young people, based on the use, interpretation and integration of complex data in order to formulate complex plans for psychological intervention and make highly skilled evaluations about treatment options.
- Implement, monitor and evaluate a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals and groups across a variety of settings and in partnership with other therapists when necessary, to provide high-quality, timely and tailored support to all clients.
- Develop and co-ordinate intensive multi-agency care packages and therapeutic interventions for young people and their carers with complex and acute presentations, necessitating intensive outreach, intensive client support and high-level risk management to ensure that each individual client receives the support they need when they need it.
- Deliver high-level risk assessments regarding risk of suicidality, harm to self and others for adults across a range of community locations, in order to make complex clinical decisions regarding level of risk and appropriate management of this, taking into account the young person’s presentation and wider systemic factors.
- Provide advice and support to other professionals working with young people with mental health issues e.g teachers, social workers, workers in the voluntary sector, in order to facilitate a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to case management, formulation, and intensive care packages.
- Provide formal and informal clinical supervision to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Lead the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service through the active demonstration of good management and maintenance of a caseload, undertaking appropriate risk assessment and management and providing consultation and support to other professionals and policy/business planning processes, in order to ensure the service meets agreed protocols, legislative requirements and best practice standards.
- Maintain high standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording and report writing, and preparation of materials to meet legislative requirements and to support the dissemination and understanding of psychological concepts and ideas.
- Carry out small scale research projects applicable to service development and carry out audits of service provision, to support the implementation of evidence-based good practice in the clinical work of the service.
- Be involved and support Line managers in service development and delivery of KPI’s.
Statutory responsibilities
- The postholder will have to comply with all relevant States Laws, such as the Health and Safety at Work (Jersey) Law 1989 and any other associated legislation, Standing Orders, Financial Directions, and other relevant Codes of Practice, in respect of managing the key project deliverables of programmes and costs through the active management of procurement, approval, financial and administrative procedures.
- To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work (Jersey) Law, 1989
- To work in accordance with the Data Protection (Jersey) Law;
- This role is politically restricted. The jobholder is not permitted to undertake political activity involving standing for election to the States or as a Parish Constable, or publicly supporting someone who is standing for election or playing a public part in any political manner.
Qualifications
Essential -
- A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology and eligible for chartered status with the British Psychological Society. Registration with the HCPC.
- A commitment to developing specialist training and advanced skill relevant to clinical psychology practice within CAMHS
Knowledge
Essential -
- Demonstrates advanced theoretical & practical knowledge of clinical psychology in specialist area ( CAMHS) to inform assessment of clients.
- Evidence of experience of of applying clinical psychological models to working with common mental health issues and within a professional role.
- Understanding of the supervision of others in a professional and clinical capacity.
- Working knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health/benefits and employment systems.
- Good understanding of medication used in mental health and alcohol misuse.
- Knowledge of how to carry out risk assessments within scope of practice.
- Familiarity with codes of practice of Health and Social Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Good understanding of safeguarding.
Technical Work Based Skills
Essential -
- Able to demonstrate a range of information technology skills i.e. an ability to effectively use IT equipment and role critical software.
- Able to provide clinical supervision to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Well-developed skills for assessing clients in specialist caseload.
General skills / attributes
Essential -
- Strong relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders up to and including at a senior level, and especially to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Able to understand and manage a range of complex facts or situations requiring analysis.
- Strong problem-solving acumen.
- Excellent communication; verbal and written.
-Communicates effectively across all levels and media.
- Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas. Demonstrates empathy towards individual clients.
- Supports the development of and shares learning with other members of staff.
- Able to remain professional and effective under pressure.
- Committed to continuous service improvement and also continued professional development for themselves and their team.
- Self-directed and resourceful.
- Flexible approach to work.
Experience
Essential -
- A minimum of two years experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist with young people and families with mental health issues.
- Experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist within a competency framework.
- Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Facilitation and tutoring of clinical staff and monitoring the caseloads of other staff.
- Experience with routine outcome monitoring.
Desirable -
- Evidence of working with children in care.
Criteria relating to Safeguarding
Essential -
- Relevant training undertaken in relation to adult/child safeguarding. Knowledge of service procedures and protocols
Across the Jersey public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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