Principal Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Lead for their Mental Health Support Team in Bexley. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team, ensuring high-quality mental health services for children and young people. You will collaborate closely with educational settings and various agencies to enhance the wellbeing of young individuals. The position demands strong clinical and leadership skills, alongside a passion for early intervention in mental health. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to improving lives through exceptional care and support.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training in Clinical Psychology is essential.
• Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality and safe service delivery for mental health support.
• Develop strong working relationships with education and clinical leads.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Communication Skills

Management Skills

Knowledge of Psychological Practices

Teamwork in MDT

Education

Post-graduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology

Professional registration with HCPC

Training in clinical supervision

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available to join our dynamic and energetic service as Clinical Lead of Oxleas CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST) within the London Borough of Bexley.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government's Green Paper: Transforming children and young people's mental health provision.

Main duties of the job

As Clinical Lead, you will be responsible alongside the Team Manager for ensuring high quality and safe service delivery, supporting the team to provide a clinically safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to children, young people and families within a number of local primary and secondary education settings.

You will work in close partnership with education colleagues, local authority and partner agencies and will develop strong working relationships with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within Oxleas CAMHS and the wider Trust.

The service has recently expanded and is developing as a service in its own right in Oxleas CAMHS. The Clinical Lead and Team Manager will be leading the team through this change to achieve its ambitious goals and continue to improve the MHST service in Bexley.

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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Experience of strong clinical and leadership skills are essential for this role. You will also need to have excellent communication and management skills with a passion for early intervention mental health support for children, young people and families.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC.
• Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Completed training in clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Further training in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to children and young people's mental health, through formal qualification (post-graduate diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice in specialism.
• Completed CPD in clinical leadership.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, including working within schools in CAMHS teams or equivalent.
• Experience of undertaking leadership responsibilities e.g. further supervision courses/training.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to qualified and non-qualified Psychologists, Psychological Professionals and clinicians from other disciplines.

Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of the theory of relevant psychological practice/processes and their therapeutic application to working with children and adolescents.
• Ability and skills to work effectively within an MDT, including clinical and management leadership joint working, contributing to effective team functioning.

Desirable

• Ability and skills in developing effective clinical pathways that include evidence-based psychological care of children and young people.
• To plan delivery of psychology and psychological services to the client group and carers, involving internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced skills in clinical supervision.
• Advanced skills in working within complex systems, managing the highly complex relationships within and between parts of the system in ways which maximise the potential for good outcomes.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address
Bostall House
Goldie Leigh, Lodge Hill
Abbeywood
SE2 0AY

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