CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in London. This role involves providing specialist psychological services to young people with various mental health difficulties. The successful candidate will support service development and hold leadership responsibilities. Applicants should have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and HCPC registration. The organization offers generous pay and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pay package

Flexible working arrangements

Access to internal training courses

Wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS.
• Experience of delivering teaching/training.
• Knowledge of risk assessment/management in the client group.

Responsibilities

• Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Psychological assessment

CBT pathway development

Consultation skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registration

Training in specialist therapy

Job description

CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS and involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties. The post holder will have the opportunity to take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a CBT pathway or treatment pathway for PTSD. These are just two examples and there will be scope to discuss other leadership options aligning with the post-holder's interests. Other aspects of the role include the following: providing specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising trainee clinical psychologists and qualified psychologists; offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation; and utilising research skills for audit, service development and research projects within the service. In addition, the postholder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold a key role as a senior psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline. There are opportunities for supervision of Band 7 colleagues, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. As a senior psychologist, there are possibilities for service development and quality improvement work.

The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions.

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.

Greenwich CAMHS has close relationships with the wider specialist CAMHS, our cross-borough crisis team for young people, our DBT service and the wider South London Partnership.

We have a large, well-established and supportive Clinical Psychology department that benefits from excellent links with the South Thames (Salomon's) Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities. As Clinical Psychologists, we are well integrated in the multi-disciplinary teams across the service with strong and positive inter-disciplinary relationships.

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 Generic 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 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 as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS
• Experience of consulting to other professionals and agencies
• Experience of working as an 8a
• Experience of supervising
• Experience of delivering teaching/training
• Experience of clinical leadership of an aspect of a service

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.