Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 to 8a preceptorship Clinical Psychologist / Team lead to join a highly-regarded Mental Health Support Team in Ealing.
The Ealing MHST is a well-established schools-based early intervention mental health offer for mainstream schools, mainly offering interventions for mild-to-moderate low mood, anxiety and behaviours that challenge.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced clinical professional to bring a breadth of clinical psychologist skills into a leadership role, and to contribute to service development initiatives within the team.
Main duties of the job
- Provide day-to-day senior operational management and leadership for the clinical functioning of the MHST's whilst working alongside service leaders to develop and implement a wide range of interventions and projects with local schools.
- Lead on and directly provide comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.
- Work with school staff and cultures in developing school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and wellbeing.
- Contribute to creative thinking and service development initiatives, and take a lead in particular areas for the team.
Person Specification
- Qualifications:
+ Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas. + Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical / Counselling) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council. + Training in supervision.
- Experience:
+ Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings. + Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity. + Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families as a qualified Clinical Psychologist in CAMHS.
- Knowledge & skills:
+ Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. + Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £55,524 to £70,887 per annum.
- Permanent, full-time position.
Additional information
- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.