Senior Clinician Joint Team Lead, Growing Together

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Job overview

Our mission is to create Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (Islington Community CAMHS, Simmons House and Paediatric Mental Health) within Whittington Health Trust that embrace diversity and foster inclusivity at all levels. We strive to empower and support our staff and service users to achieve wellbeing.

We are looking for an 8a Senior Clinician with some experience of management, and leadership alongside clinical experience of working with adults with common mental health presentation. Experience with working with children with common behavioural and emotional difficulties in the context of parental mental health will be advantageous.

Growing Together is a relatively new mental health service which is a partnership between Islington Adult IAPT and CAMHS. Growing Together provides psychological interventions to both parents and children aged 1-5 experiencing emotional distress and difficulties in relationships.

The post-holder will be part of the management and leadership team in Growing Together. They will be expected to take a lead in monitoring clinical outcomes and the delivery of the team's KPIs and to contribute to the annual report. They will provide line management and clinical supervision to Band 7 staff and other junior members of the team.

Main duties of the job

In addition to team leadership, the post holder will offer psychological assessments and interventions to parents with range of common mental health presentations (including depression, anxiety, and emotional regulation difficulties) and their children aged between 1-5 presenting with common young childhood difficulties (including difficulties with behaviour, feeding, toileting, separating, attachment, etc.). They will see clients in community settings, e.g. Children's Centres, Health Centres and client's homes. A range of evidence based interventions will be offered by the clinician from at least one therapeutic modality including CBT , Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, and family work. Training for group work that the team undertakes will be provided. For the suitable candidate support will also be offered to develop skills in working with young children if required.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post involves doing outreach work in the community and linking with partnership agencies to provide consultation and training. The clinician will link to some specific Children's Centres and need to build positive relationships with staff to facilitate joint working. This post would suit someone dynamic, confident, flexible and tenacious with interest in the mental health of adults as parents and the impact of their emotional difficulties on their children's wellbeing and development.

We especially welcome applications from candidates with Adult mental health experience at a senior level within an IAPT service and an interest in developing expertise in working with young children.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in Clinical/ Counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP or other recognised professional registering body OR qualification in another mental health profession (e.g. mental health nursing, occupational therapy) and qualification in CBT and registration with the BABCP.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions for Adult Mental health including assessment and evidence based therapies for depression, anxiety and emotional regulation difficulties.
• Skills in the use of methods of mental health assessment, intervention and management of children under five years of age, including safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Skills in the assessment of developmental, family, intrapersonal and mental health factors for adults and children under five years of age and their families.
• Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
• Knowledge and skills in a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health.
• Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• Ability to manage clinical staff on band 7 and band 4.
• Ability to type own notes /enter data to Adult and Child electronic patient records such as RIO and Iaptus.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to chair team meetings and support the CAMHS Early Years Service Managers in general team tasks as required.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of generic and discipline specific mental health assessments, treatments and safeguarding of Adults, children and families within the age range of 1-5 years.
• Substantial experience of multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment.
• Substantial experience of supervision of clinical staff
• Working knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialist psychological therapy.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of monitoring clinical outcomes.
• Experience of contributing to service activity reports.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

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4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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

• Job description for Growing Together Senior Clinician (PDF, 184.4KB)
• Person spec (PDF, 240.4KB)
• Job advert for Growing Together Senior Clinician (PDF, 272.4KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)