An exciting career opportunity has arisen for two full time enthusiastic and motivated clinical practitioners who are either a clinical/counselling psychologist and/or systemic therapist to join in our expanding and developing integrated in-house clinical (CAMHS) Service within the London Borough of Barnet’s Family Service. We are a strong, supportive, friendly department and welcome for a highly experienced clinical psychologist to join us.

Barnet is one of the most diverse boroughs in London which provides opportunities and challenges that are rewarding, both professionally and personally. We are focussed on making Barnet an even better place to live for all families, we call this ambition “Family Friendly Barnet”. At the heart of this vision is our aim of helping families, children and young people to become resilient so they can thrive and achieve.

The purpose of your role will be to work alongside Social Care colleagues in the Assessment, Intervention and Planning Teams. You will provide highly specialised clinical assessments and therapeutic interventions, working as part of an integrated clinical team delivering wrap-around services to children, young people and adolescents presenting with complex risk and vulnerabilities and their immediate families and wider support systems. You will be working alongside Social Care colleagues, drawing from expertise as a mental health professional, providing consultation to professionals, as well opportunities for clinical supervision and reflective practises may arise.

We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with leadership from the Clinical Lead, supervision from the Clinical Manager and peer support from the other clinical practitioners. We offer excellent specialist CPD and training opportunities. The department has established strong working relationships with colleagues in Children’s Social Care. In addition, you will have ample opportunities to work with partner agencies such as Barnet’s Tier 3 NHS Specialist CAMHS, other community and voluntary services. We also have links with the Hertfordshire Clinical Psychology Training Scheme.

We would like to invite applications who like working in the community and integrating with agencies creatively to improve the experiences and outcomes of the children, young people and their families in the borough.

If shortlisted you will be required to bring photographic ID to your interview to prove your identity.

Barnet is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures.

Please note that the interviews for this post will take place on Tuesday December 10^th 2019.

For further details / informal visits contact: Dr Anindita Sarkar (Interim Clinical Lead) either by email (anindita.sarkar@barnet.gov.uk), or on 02083592942 or on 07849623243.