Dr Brian Murray

Supporting the member network in contributing to the society's strategic plan and achieve the objectives set out by the society, and being the 'voice' of the member network.

Provide leadership in the development and implementation of the overall strategy for the Member Network in line with the Society Strategic Plan and play a role in Society-level corporate decision-making on an ongoing basis.

Working with the EDI Lead to ensure all activities are accessible and inclusive.

Assisting the committee in delivering the activities outlined in their annual Activity Plans.

• Ensuring the systematic provision of a highly specialist clinical psychology service operating at the
highest level of quality and best practice to clients of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
(CAMHS).
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CAMHS.
• Ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other psychologists within the team, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs.
• Developing supervision relationships in the team.
• Contributes to the systematic governance of psychological practice within the CAMHS, and to
contribute to systems for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other
psychologists/counsellors.
• Acting as a highly qualified expert, providing psychological advice and consultation to clinical teams, other professionals, other services and agencies on clients with extremely complex needs.
• Responsible, in collaboration with the Clinical Lead, for the identification of CPD needs for psychologists in the CAMHS.
• Contributes to service developments and projects within the CAMHS, in collaboration
with the Clinical Lead.
• Participating in the design and delivery of audit, policy and service development and research
and training activities and/or programmes.
• Providing training and education to colleagues both on specialist clinical skills.
• The post holder deputises for the Clinical Lead to provide clinical direction and advice to the Manager of the CAMHS.
• As required, taking on the Clinical Lead role in making decisions regarding ongoing care of complex patients, particularly where such clients are in an inpatient setting.

Senior Practice Tutor for Interpersonal Therapy for Adolescents pathway, supporting trainees on the Postgraduate Diploma (Pg Dip) in CYP IAPT Therapy course funded by NHS England (NHSE).

Role components:
Delivery:
• Support development and delivery of teaching on the programme – particularly
skills-based workshops;
• Review student feedback, meet with the Course Tutors (and other staff if necessary to discuss student feedback.
Assessment:
• Mark assignments across modules in line with UCL regulations and timeframes;
• Attend marking workshops/calibration meetings for staff to ensure marker feedback is consistent across markers.

Practice Tutor Groups:
• Facilitate skills practice tutor group sessions of approximately 6 trainees,
where case material is presented, with the aim of developing clinical practice;
• Prepare content for each group session as necessary;
• Monitor levels of trainee progress and bring any concerns to the notice of the
Programme Director;
• Be aware of policies on child protection and Anna Freud procedures for reporting any such concerns;
• Contribute to the running of the Pg Dip CYP IAPT Therapy Programme team and
attend weekly Practice Tutor group meetings as well as other Postgraduate
Studies (PGS) Committee meetings and staff meetings as required.

• Operationally manage team of 11 therapists (including trainees).

• Solely responsible for clinical governance and clinical innovation, ensuring creative solutions via existing

evidence base and piloting needs based solutions in a safe yet trailblazing fashion.

• Lead on clinical components of bid writing and clinically responsible for data reporting to stakeholders and

commissioners.

• Consult on governance to third sector council, statutory services and commercial projects.

• Specialist in therapy provision, and collaborating on inter-agency neurodevelopmental assessment

process.

• Ensure digital innovation and alternatives to face to face is present in therapy and assessment offering.

• Consult on local radio and podcasts on therapeutic theory and innovations.

• Provide supervision, teaching, training to a range of therapists and non-clinical professionals.

• Oversee clinical content of schools programme from schools team; and Mental Health First Aid provided

by workplace team.

• Operationally manage Community Disorder Team consisting of: Psychiatry, psychology, nursing, family

therapy, dietitian, occupational therapy, CAMHS practitioner.

• Lead on recruitment strategy and staff development.

• Chair Local Care Quality and Performance Management Group.

• Manage Key Performance Indicators.

• Conduct appraisals for the psychology team.

• Organise supervision, reflective practice and training for the team.

• Maintain links with Adult ED Team (inpatient, liaison, day programme and community)

• Consult clinically on innovation and strategy e.g. links with Third Sector, Digital Development.

Providing psychology lectures on the West Thames Postgraduate Psychiatry Training Course, which is a

partnership between Central Worth /est London WHS foundation trust, West London Mental Health Trust and

Imperial College London.

• Consulting on referrals into the inpatient ward, alongside a Consultant Psychiatrist.

• Lead on recruitment decisions for MDT staff.

• Lead on staff wellbeing, and training and career plans of MDT staff.

• Allocate care management across the team.

• Ensure KPIs met.

• Consult to Provider Collaborative (CNWL/WLMHT commissioning), on staffing training, wellbeing and QI.

• Developing Leading QI projects.

• Line management and supervision of MDT staff.

• Represent team, alongside Matron, and Wurse Consultant at Care Quality and Performance Management

meeting (involving 5 boroughs, and Tier 4 services), as well as Tier 4 equivalent meeting.

• Chair Therapies Team meeting, Senior Management Team meeting, and Problem Solving Meeting.

Borough Lead Therapist Role:

• Responsible and accountable for the local borough CAMHS overall service performance.

• Ensure provision of high-quality, evidence-based, cost-effective care for CYP accessing the service.

• Implement and embed the CAMHS clinical model of brief intervention following deUned care pathways.

• Design and implement initiatives to meet KPI targets.

• Responsible for effective line management, case management and therapy supervision within the service.

• Ensure effective evaluation of clinical outcomes at patient, individual staff member, and team levels.

• Create a culture of effective continuous Quality Improvement within the service.

• Active member of the borough senior management team.

• Provide leadership of the local Care Quality and Performance Group.

Lead Psychologist Role:

• Responsible for supervising psychologists 8a and below, as well as trainees and assistant psychologists.

• Conducting assessments and reports on complex cases as part of the Enhanced Treatment Team (Complex

Trauma, EUPD).

• Responsible for recruitment for psychology.

• Teach psychology modules for CT1q2 and advanced teaching for SpRs.

• Manage all therapies waiting lists

• Improve use of Routine Outcome Measures in the service.

• Improve efficiency and creativity in service through the use of Quality Improvement (QI).

• Liaise with participation worker and wellbeing lead to ensure services are service user-led and staff wellbeing is prioritised.

• Be an active member of the CAMHS ED Care Quality and Performance Management Group.

• Review and manage overall service skill mix and recruitment to most effectively deliver service objectives.

• Contribute to strategic planning and ongoing service development in line with commissioning requirements and the service development plan.

• Contribute to the local borough partnership agenda for children and young people.

• Attend and contribute to local Commissioner meetings.

Providing a specialist psychology service to children and young people with mental health problems across

all sectors of care providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to them and their

families/carers, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on their psychological care to

non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional

guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

Other duties:

• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by

the service of relevance to young people their families and carers.

• Responsible for providing highly specialist assessments to children with complex mental health

presentations such as ASD, depression and OCD.

• Implementing case formulation which leads to treatment plans involving evidence􀀀based interventions and

outcome measures routinely to inform practice.

• Offer specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people with learning disabilities who require CAMHS support.

• Providing advice and consultation to non-psychologists in the service on psychological interventions by, for

for example, being involved in running a CBT supervision group.

• Actively involved in service user participation.

• Provide clinical supervision to trainee and less experienced psychologists and non psychologists.

• Assess, formulate, diagnose, and implement interventions for young people up to the age of 18 for neurodevelopmental or mental health disorders.

• Working within the Neurodevelopmental Team: Safeguarding management, Active liaison with Social Care for

LAC, CIN, CP conferences, planning and ongoing management of care.

• Work integratively to provide therapy that suits individual needs.

• Joint work with non-therapy staff to skill up and provide therapeutic goal-focused support.

• Designing and facilitating therapeutic groups (CBT, DBT, integrative)

• Providing consultation on common mental health problems and child protection issues.

Overall responsibilities are to improve the content of the charity's website whilst increasing the awareness and

relevance of services provided.

Duties:

• Providing workshops and training to local services.

• Presenting the clinical face of the charity to local and national organisations.

• Working with local schools and other organisations to increase awareness and relevance of the charity's website.

• Developing research projects alongside local NHS teams.

• Facilitating production of relevant funding bids.

• Liaising with NHS organisations to facilitate Shifting

Settings of Care from Secondary to Primary Care services.

• Standing in for CEO at research, clinical and third-party meetings (e.g. NHS CCG meetings) in order to

provide feedback on the charity's progress and present clinical findings.

• Designing relevant procedures and measures to improve the Quality and efficacy of the counselling service.

• Supporting the clinical team in the recruitment of counsellors.

Trainee Placement at Student Psychological Services and Private Cancer Clinic to complete additional 200

clinical hours for Doctoral Training.

Older Adults Day Hospital Community Mental Health Team and Inpatient Service.

• Conducting time limited CBT therapy on adults primarily over the age of 65 (became an all-age service in final

year).

• Completing neuropsychological assessments and reports.

• Co-Leading research study on impact of behavioural activation on 􀁌Older Adults􀁌 with depression.

• Completing assessments and protocol interventions for children under the age of 12 in Day School.

• Completing observational assessments to aide in overall formulation and care planning.