Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Bromley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking a dynamic clinical psychologist to join the Bromley Adolescent Team, offering a specialist service to young individuals facing severe mental health challenges. The role involves clinical assessment, intervention, and the opportunity to contribute to service development while working in a supportive multidisciplinary setting.

Qualifications

• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment across care settings.
• Knowledge of child protection legislation and procedures.
• Verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology service to clients in the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team.
• Offer psychological assessments and interventions to young people.
• Supervise clinical psychologists and trainees.

Skills

Communication

Risk Assessment

Psychological Assessment

Consultation

Supervision

Education

Doctorate training in clinical psychology

Current HCPC registration

Training in research methods

Job description

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic clinical psychologistto provide a specialist service for young people in the Borough of Bromley within our Adolescent Team.

The Bromley Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions, including groups, for young people between the ages of 11-18 years and their families who are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The young people we meet experience significant/acute mental health conditions, including those who may be at risk of inpatient admission, who require a rapid response, intensive intervention, crisis and risk management. The role provides opportunities for brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies. In addition, the role offers opportunities to supervise more junior staff and take a lead on areas identified as priorities for improving our service. The successful candidate will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.

Main duties of the job

Bromley Service Overview

Bromley CAMHS is part of Oxleas Children and Young Person Directorate. The Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

Bromley CAMHS is large and comprises of the following teams:

• Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway
• Generic Team
• Looked After and Adopted Children Team
• Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities Team

Bromley CAMHS service opening hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and utilises hybrid working incorporating virtual, telephone and in person appointments.

Psychology Discipline

The post-holder will also be part of a larger psychology team within Bromley CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. CPD opportunities are linked to personal development review processes and funded by Psychological Therapies Department.

This role includes a varied workload and set of responsibilities including clinical work, teaching, training, supervision, 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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing 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.

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 for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Doctorate training in clinical psychology, accredited by the BPS
• Current HCPC registration
• Training in research methods and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment across care settings
• Knowledge of child protection, child in need and looked-after children legislation and procedures
• Well-developed verbal and written communications skills

Knowledge & Skills

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Skills and knowledge of risk assessment
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Evidence of supervision skills and/or experience

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.