South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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WTE: 0.6 (3 days a week)
Job Overview
An opportunity has arisen for a band 8a clinical psychologist to work with young people and families in the boroughs of Kingston and Richmond who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of the CAMHS provision provided into Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service (YJS).
The postholder will be joining a passionate team in an established and valued role which will contribute to the development and delivery of services that seek to transform mental health delivery for marginalized young people involved in or at risk of offending.
The role offers a balance of direct clinical work, specialist consultation, training delivery, service development, and supervision and is embedded within Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service. Candidates will also have access to relevant specialist training as per their development plan.
The service is informed by systemic, trauma-informed and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System.
The postholder will be working within a multi-disciplinary context to deliver creative and adapted evidence-based care, including direct psychological assessment and treatment to young people and families. This would include cases where there are forensic risks and contextual harms such as child criminal exploitation. These are often complex and require engagement and support from several agencies which provides opportunities for creative multi-agency joint working.
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Alongside direct clinical work, there will be an expectation to provide leadership, consultancy, and training to CAMHS and partner agencies to embed psychological and trauma informed care. The role also includes providing specialist consultation around forensic risk and harmful sexual behaviour, and the ability to undertake cognitive assessments where appropriate. There will also be opportunities to contribute to policy work, wider service development, and become involved in co-produced projects including a psychology-led team formulation pathway.
There will also be opportunities for the postholder to provide clinical supervision to qualified staff.
Candidates will be committed to partnership working, hold excellent communication, engagement, and people skills, and have experience of working with marginalised young people in Youth Justice and/or social care contexts.
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
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We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nicholas Wilson
- Job title: Clinical Manager
- Email address: Nicholas.Wilson@swlstg.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 02082548061
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