Practitioner Psychologist inGreater London inGreater London PUBLISHED
MON 23 DEC 2024
The Practitioner Psychologist will be responsible for delivering highly specialized psychological assessments, interventions, and leading the integration of a psychologically informed framework within both services. The role emphasises collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to address various issues, including trauma and developmental disorders, while also involving supervision, teaching, training, and research. Applicants are encouraged to specify their preferred focus area in their supporting information.
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The South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to appoint a Band 8b psychologist to join the new Children & Young People's Gender Service (London).
This is an exciting new blended role that will work within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and an allocated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The CAMHS elementof this role will ideally be a good fit with the Children and Young People'sGender Service and the experience, skills, and preference of the applicant. Please specify in your supporting information your preferred choice. The post will be full time for 2 years (fixed term contract).
This post reflects the Cass Review recommendation that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services to embed the care of childrenandyoung people with gender-related distress within a broader childand adolescent health context.
Practitioner Health and Educational Psychologists will also be considered for this role if they are able to demonstrate significant experience within a children and young people's mental health setting and document the equivalent level of training in an appropriate therapeutic model, either as a core part of training, additional qualification, or substantial number of short courses.
The Children and Young People's Gender Serviceprovides assessment and therapeutic support for children and young people that are gender questioning or experiencing gender incongruence. Many of these young people will have co-morbid difficulties including developmental disorders, trauma, low mood and family conflict.
The post holder will work 0.5 wte within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and 0.5wte within an agreed CAMHS - to develop, coordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychology service across both areas.
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The post holder will work within the Children and Young People's Gender Service and an agreed CAMHS to
- provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people including trauma, self-harm and neurodevelopmental disorders.
- To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically informed framework for both services
- take an active role in supervision teaching, training and research.
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