CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to provide essential clinical psychology services. This role includes supervising staff, conducting assessments, and contributing to service development. The provider offers a generous pay package, flexible working arrangements, and numerous benefits to promote staff wellbeing and development.

Benefits

Generous pay with outer-London weighting

Flexible working arrangements

Access to training courses

Cycle-to-work schemes

Wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience in providing clinical psychology services.
• Ability to supervise clinical psychologists and trainees.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology services and conduct assessments.
• Offer advice and consultation on psychological care.
• Lead audits and service developments within the team.

Job description

CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Detailed Job Description is attached. Main responsibilities include:

• Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, including highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
• Providing supervision to clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, and trainees.
• Conducting initial assessments and care coordination for a defined number of young people within the team.
• Offering supervision to junior staff.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines, aligned with CYP-IAPT principles, within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to service delivery.
• Utilising research skills to lead audits, policy, service development, and research within the team/service area.

Oxleas is committed to fostering an inclusive environment, actively working towards positive change for all staff, especially BAME, disabled, and LGBT+ staff. Initiatives include:

• Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) program to promote fair recruitment and career progression, and enhance cultural understanding.
• Resources and staff networks such as BAMEx, LGBTQ+, Disability, Mental Health Staff, and Women's Network.

The Trust offers benefits including:

• Generous pay with outer-London weighting, pensions, and leave packages.
• Flexible working arrangements such as remote work, part-time, job sharing, and hot-desking.
• Access to training courses like Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership.
• Additional benefits including cycle-to-work schemes, lease cars, electric vehicle charging, and funding for school holiday childcare.
• Wellbeing services, staff networks, and opportunities to participate in service development initiatives through the Trust's Qi framework.