Clinical Psychologist

• To provide a highly specialist psychology service to children & young people families & carers including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in Psychology.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
  
  

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the (service) including (specify service-specialist items, e.g. for assessing/working with psychosis, learning disabilities, personality disorders, offending behaviour, etc., at levels expected

of a psychologist who has achieved the equivalent of a PG Diploma-worth of post-qualification specialist development.)

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

To act as care/CPA co-ordinator, keyworker) taking responsibility for

initiating planning and reviewing care plans, CPA co-ordination and meetings)

To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of client.

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC ‘Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

Lewisham is a borough with very high social needs and high levels of mental illness in adults. The child population of Lewisham aged 0-19 years is now estimated to be 64,000. Nearly 8% live in single parent households, above the inner London average . Children from black and ethnic minority groups represent 37% of the child population of 0-14 year olds. The number of children looked after by the local authority is approximately 480. . Lewisham CAMHs has teams based in three locations. Three teams are based at Kaleidoscope Children’s Centre: Horizon, our generic service, and the Neuro-developmental Team for children and young people with neuro-developmental problems, and the Paediatric Liaison Service that offers a service for children with physical health problems who are being treated by University Hospital Lewisham. Three teams are based at the Lewisham Park site: Symbol, who work with Looked After Children and adopted children; LYPS (Lewisham Young People’s Service) who offer support to adolescents with severe mental health disorders and the Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) who offer a well-being service to children who present with low mood, mild anxiety or behavioural problems that do not reach threshold for mainstream CAMHS. The Adolescent Resource Team (ARTS) which is a service for young people who offend or who are at risk of offending are co-located with the Youth Offending Service.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ingrid-Maye Madzura Job title: Clinical Lead for the Symbol Team Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07860758024