Senior CBT specialist and or Clinical Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

This is a permanent post for a clinician (Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or other profession with recognised CBT training) with specialist CBT skills who is keen to support the continuing development of CBT practice within our service. The successful candidate will have evidenced, specialist skills in CBT with children and young people, expertise in supervision and an interest in service development. The role includes offering individual supervision and facilitating a CBT peer supervision group, supporting or leading clinical discussion forums within generic CAMHS and maintaining a caseload. The post holder will contribute to the overview of CBT within the service. The post holder will also have responsibilities as a senior clinician within the generic team and the service as a whole. The candidate will have experience of working in CAMHS as a clinician and a supervisor.

• To provide leadership; ensuring the delivery of high-quality evidence-based CBT Assessment, Formulation and Treatment to children and young people within the Lewisham CAMHS Service.
• To provide clinical supervision of CBT and specialist consultation to other members of professional staff within the service.
• To contribute to the training and development strategy for CBT across the service in line with Evidence Based Pathways for treatment within SLAM.
• To support the oversight and management of the waiting lists and provision of CBT to children and young people in the Horizon (generic) Team.
• To provide direct clinical care to the children and young people seen by the Horizon Team (Core tier 3 CAMHS Team) in Lewisham CAMHS.
• To manage a caseload as a Care Coordinator, monitoring experiences and evidence-based treatment of children and young people using outcome measures and service user feedback to inform care planning, to monitor and support 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 lead and participate in service improvement and quality improvement projects as necessary.
• To work as an autonomous professional within your professional body's and codes of conduct guidelines (eg HCPC).
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. Clinical and Client Care
• To provide highly specialist CBT assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people in CAMHS
• To provide culturally appropriate professional interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To select and deliver evidence based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a broad spectrum of models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans and meetings.
• To provide psychological support to clients who are emotionally distressed. Either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives.
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues taking account communication needs.
• To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up CAMHS and at all times to work in ways that are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds, and to be aware and sensitive to the different contexts that different families may be acting out of.
• To provide psychological support to clients and their families who are emotionally distressed, either due to the serious consequences of their illness or due to other traumatic events in their lives.
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
• To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a CBT informed framework for the service area.
• To provide consultations to other clinical staff on the use of CBT techniques and, where appropriate, to jointly work with other team members in the provision of therapeutic interventions
• To provide consultation and facilitation to multi-disciplinary staff in case discussions, planning and decision making.
• 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 contribute towards the provision of advice and consultancy to local teams/services for clients. In this respect, to advise on the development and integration within the team of CBT based assessment and intervention techniques that might at a systems level be incorporated within the team's operational policy, and be applied on a routine basis by other team members
• To advise other members of the service on specialist CBT care of clients.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice and/or currently understood best practice-based evidence, in individual work and work with other team members.
• To participate in helping develop services to family and carers of service users
Policy and service development
• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
• To participate in clinical governance initiatives as agreed by the Directorate clinical governance committee.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.