CAMHS Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship Band 7-8a

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a CAMHS Clinical or Counselling Psychologist for a band 7-8a preceptorship. The role involves providing specialized psychological assessment and intervention as part of a multi-disciplinary team, with opportunities for supervision and service development. Candidates should hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration. The position offers competitive benefits and training opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous pay and leave package

Agile and flexible working arrangements

Access to internal training courses

Wellbeing services

Qualifications

• HCPC registration is required.
• Experience with children and young people in NHS settings.
• Training in supervision beyond basic induction training.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services to clients in the Greenwich Adolescent team.
• Supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.
• Provide evidence-based psychological assessment and interventions.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Supervision

Consultation

Research skills

Teamwork

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registration

Training in specialist therapy

Job description

CAMHS Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship Band 7-8a

Greenwich CAMHS are pleased to offer a band 7-8a preceptorship post with guaranteed funding for further training. We welcome applications from trainees qualifying later this year and current Band 7 colleagues wishing to expand their experience. Please see attached information regarding preceptorships.

The post holder will provide a clinical psychology service to clients within the Greenwich Adolescent team providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment. The multi-disciplinary team works within an Adaptive Mentalization based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) framework providing a team approach for working with the client, the team, the family and professional networks. This approach supports the work of the team with young people who present with a range of complex mental health needs. The post holder will provide supervision to trainee clinical psychologists and assistant psychologists, as well as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care across a range of disciplines. There will be opportunities to develop leadership skills and lead on service development.

The post-holder will be part of a large psychology team. We offer excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for CPD. There are established links with psychology across the three Oxleas boroughs with joint psychology CPD events. There will be opportunities for individual training, for example MBT-A, EMDR and CFT.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached Job Description for a detailed description of duties.

The post holder will hold a key role as a psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline, and working within an MDT. There are opportunities for supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. There are opportunities for service development and quality improvement work, as well as the development of leadership skills.

The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for young people and families accessing the service.

The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Detailed Job Description is attached. Main responsibilities include:

• Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to clinical psychologists/psychological therapists and trainees.
• Providing initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the Adolescent Team.
• Offering supervision to more junior staff.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
• Utilising research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Womans Network's.

The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued and offer benefits including:

• Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (life assurance) and leave package
• Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
• Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)

Benefits include a cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare. Staff are able to access wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) & vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.

We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to providing all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• HCPC registration
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Other relevant qualification (eg MSc, Post Grad diploma)
• Training in specialist therapy relevant to post
• Training in supervision (beyond basic induction training)

Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people in NHS settings
• Experience of consulting to other professionals and agencies
• Experience of MDT working in the NHS
• Experience of supervising
• Experience of delivering teaching/training

Knowledge & Skills

• Appropriate skills and knowledge of risk assessment/management in the client group
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Demonstrates knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
• Demonstrates knowledge of wider policy context relevant to post
• Possesses transferable skills from other posts (not already scored) which are relevant to the post
• Demonstrates awareness of power and diversity issues
• Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.