Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Project Lead

• Deliver highly specialist ADHD and neuro-developmental assessments within Tower Hamlets CAMHS.
• Provide expert consultation, formulation and intervention for complex presentations.
• Support clinical triage and pathway decision making across CAMHS and ASDAS.
• Lead the development and implementation of an integrated ADHD and neurovariance pathway across ELFT and Barts Health.
• Collaborate with education, social care, primary care and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes for children and young people.
• Deliver training, consultation and clinical leadership across services.
• Contribute to reducing ADHD waiting times and improving access for one of the most diverse and deprived boroughs in England.

• A Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration.
• Significant CAMHS experience with children and young people.
• Expertise in ADHD and neurodevelopmental assessment.
• Experience of working with complex mental health presentations.
• Proven service development, quality improvement or project leadership experience.
• Excellent partnership working and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A passion for reducing health inequalities and improving access to care.
• The ability to influence and work across organisational boundaries to deliver meaningful change.

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent qualification recognised by HCPC)
• HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of substantial post-qualification continuing professional development relevant to CAMHS and neurodevelopmental practice
• Additional specialist training in ADHD assessment and intervention
• Additional specialist training in neurodevelopmental assessment, autism and/or complex developmental presentations
• Formal training in clinical supervision

Essential

• Significant post-qualification experience within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Experience of undertaking highly specialist ADHD assessments in children and young people
• Experience working with neurodevelopmental conditions including ADHD, autism and co-occurring mental health difficulties
• Experience managing highly complex and high-risk clinical presentations
• Experience of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
• Experience of working with children, young people, and families from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds
• Experience of providing specialist consultation to professionals and teams
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to qualified staff and trainees
• Experience of exercising autonomous clinical responsibility for assessment, treatment planning and risk management
• Experience of leading service development initiatives and implementing change
• Experience of project leadership, pathway redesign or transformation work
• Experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting service performance data
• Experience of influencing service delivery beyond own team
• Experience of managing competing clinical and service priorities
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' therapeutic care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan

Desirable

• Experience of developing neurodevelopmental pathways
• Experience of leading cross-organisational service developments
• Experience of partnership working across NHS providers
• Experience of Quality Improvement methodology and implementation
• Experience of contributing to business cases, service reviews or commissioning discussions
• Experience of presenting at regional or national forums
• Experience of facilitating complex stakeholder engagement processes

Essential

• Ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive, and potentially distressing information to children, young people, families, and professionals
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior clinicians, managers, and system partners
• Advanced consultation skills
• Advanced negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to develop and maintain productive partnerships across organisations
• Ability to present highly complex information in written and verbal formats
• Ability to produce high-quality reports, business documents and presentations
• Ability to facilitate meetings and workshops involving multiple stakeholders
• Ability to provide a culturally competent service
• Competent IT Skills e.g., MS Office, keyboard skills
• Ability to write coherent, clear, and relevant reports
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Able to record and report on clinical information as required
• Ability to develop content and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings
• Up to date knowledge of research and national guidance relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice with this client group
• Record of providing training and supervision to others Evidence of continuing professional development
• Ability to be flexible and adapt approach according to need
• Ability to accommodate disruption to plans owing to the often crisis nature of CAMHS work