Provide a comprehensive psychology service as the lead for the Camden Vanguard.
Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, consultations, and interventions to young people aged 18-25 years old.
Collaborate with the Camden Vanguard team and young people to design and develop activities/opportunities aligned with the project's overall aims, such as empowering young people to participate in discussions about safety in their community.
Manage the day-to-day safety of the Vanguard team, particularly concerning clinical governance and safeguarding, with support from the Operational Lead for Young People services.
Work closely with health, local authority, and VCS partners to strategically develop Camden Vanguard, focusing on its effectiveness in supporting young people in the area.
Consult with partners and relevant agencies in Camden (e.g., youth provisions, probation, police, mental health teams) to make professional services more accessible to young people.
Provide advice and support to mental health teams regarding young adults who have been stepped down from secondary care/intensive community mental health services and may have experienced community-based violence.
Support GPs and practice staff in managing and treating service users through case discussions, joint consultations, and bespoke training.
Triage potential and new referrals sent to the team, providing consultation, information, and advice to young people and partners, as well as allocating new work to appropriate MDT colleagues.
Maintain effective communication with GPs, primary care staff, service users, and their carers.
Provide clinical input for multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex presentations managed solely in primary care and as part of the wider integrated health and care networks.
Engage with local service user participation models.
Provide clinical and professional leadership and participate in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service.
Play an integral role in the team's performance, further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and priorities.
Promote respect for all professional groups within the MDT, focusing on coherent and integrated teamwork.
Provide reports and communicate sensitively regarding the assessment, formulation, and treatment offered to service users/young people.
Manage and supervise youth workers, assistant psychologists, clinical associates, apprentices, and other staff as appropriate.
Provide professional and clinical supervision of other members of the multi-disciplinary team and trainee clinical and counselling psychologists.
Offer advice, consultation, training, and supervision to other health and social care staff working with service users.
Utilize evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual, family, and group work.
Undertake appropriate research and provide research support to other staff.
Participate in clinical audit and service evaluation to improve service provision, proposing changes to working practices as required.
Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical or counselling psychologist.
Engage in a program of training and continuing professional development, maintaining active engagement with current developments in psychological practice related to the post.
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