# Clinical or Counselling Psychologist/ CAMHS Practitioner

**Company**: Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are a successful and forward thinking Tier 2 early intervention service in Hackney that works with children and young people (aged 0 - 18) and their families.

We are looking for motivated clinicians with qualifications in the area of either clinical/counselling psychology, child psychotherapy, systemic and family therapy or other equivalent training, who are interested in working within a CAMHS early intervention setting.

You will be responsible and accountable for the provision of an autonomous and accessible Child and Family Mental Health Service in Hackney. You will use specialist knowledge, skills and experience to offer a range of psychological interventions to children and adolescents and their families/carers in the community, presenting with mild to moderate emotional difficulties.

The salary for this position is £58,133 to £65,261 a year p.a. inc. pro rata.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide an autonomous and accessible Child and Family Mental Health Service in Hackney

- Offer a range of psychological interventions to children and adolescents and their families/carers in the community

- Work with children, young people and families within a child and adolescent mental health framework

- Experience of working with multi-ethnic populations and with interpreters

**Requirements:**

- Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical or equivalent

- HCPC registration or equivalent

- High level communication and facilitation skills with regards to clients and professionals

- Skills in working with staff and clients from diverse ethnic communities in providing a culturally competent service

- Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base

- Ability to organise own workload within competing demands

- Competence in basic IT and keyboard skills

- Ability to work autonomously or collaboratively within a team and systems

## Skills

### Required
- clinical/counselling psychology
- child psychotherapy
- systemic and family therapy
- high level communication and facilitation skills
- culturally competent service
- broad theoretical knowledge base
- organisational skills
- basic IT and keyboard skills
- autonomous or collaborative teamwork

### Nice to have
- relevant post-qualification training
- experience of working in a primary care setting
- experience of clinically supervising trainees or assistant psychologists
- familiarity with a culture or ethnic group minority
- knowledge of major ethnic language

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