Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (Band 8a) - Children & Young People - Oxlea[...]

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for the Greenwich Adolescent team. The role involves providing specialized psychological assessments and treatments for clients, supervising trainees, and contributing to service development. This position promises professional growth within a supportive multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology required.
• Experience in specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
• Skills in supervision and complex methods of assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.
• Supervise trainee and assistant psychologists.
• Conduct risk assessments for clients.

Skills

Specialist psychological assessment

Psychological intervention

Supervision of trainee psychologists

Autonomous working

Research skills

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Band 8a

Main area Children & Young People Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday flexible hours) Job ref 277-7276434-CYP

Site Highpoint House Town London Salary £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 14/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

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, assistant psychologists, and qualified clinical psychologists, as well as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care across a range of disciplines. There will be opportunities to take up leadership responsibilities around an area of clinical care or pathway and/or service development.

The post-holder will be part of a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS. We offer excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. 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

• To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the CAMH service.
• Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment.
• Supervising trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists qualified clinical psychologists, and disciplines outside of psychology when appropriate.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Working for our organisation

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 Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
• T o provide clinical supervision and professional guidance to qualified psychologists, assistant psychologists, psychology trainees and non-psychology disciplines.
• T o receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
• To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.

Person specification

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life span presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• CAMHS clinical experience
• Experience of the application of practitioner psychology in different cultural contexts
• Knowledge of the theory of attachment and developmental trauma

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience of other audit or service development work.
• Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertise
• Experience of CYP IAPT
• Experience of working with young people
• Experience of audit or service developement
• Years of experience

Experience

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process. We also discourage overuse of AI during the application process because this can negatively impact the quality of your application and may hinder your chances of being shortlisted. Thank you.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Vanessa Ibuakah Job title Team Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 020 3260 5211 Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:

Vanessa Ibuakah - Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team Manager

[e-mail]

or

Dr Clare Chivers - Consultant Clinical Psychologist [e-mail]

Telephone: Greenwich CAMHS – 020 3260 5211