Clinical Psychologist/ Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

• To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• Where appropriate to supervise assistant psychologists across the locality teams in CYPMHS.
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families.
• To undertake a range of clinical work, assessment work and parenting support.
• To contribute to audit and research.
• To actively engage in treatment and outcome monitoring, including the use of normed measures associated with CYP-IAPT.
• To work in clinical practice, making use of supervision, within the overall framework CYPMHS and the Trust's policies and procedures.

Essential

• Successful completion of a post-graduate training (e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy)
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, AFT, ACP)

Essential

• Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs. (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autistic spectrum disorders and trauma)
• Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
• Experience of using observation (e.g. In school contexts) to contribute to assessments of children
• Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of specialist assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term in clinical interventions in CAMHS
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines
• Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings
• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside CAMHS
• Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work Desirable criteria Maximum score 2