Principal Clinical Psychologist & MHST Clinical Lead

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health provider in the UK is looking for a Clinical Lead to enhance their mental health and wellbeing service for children and young people. The role involves supporting teams and collaborating with various agencies, focusing on early intervention. Strong leadership, clinical skills, and communication abilities are essential. Candidates should have a passion for improving mental health care within educational settings. This position plays a crucial part in delivering quality care across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Experience with mental health service provision to children and young people.
• Ability to work in partnership with agencies.
• Skills in relationship building within the Mental Health Support Team.

Responsibilities

• Support the team in providing a safe mental health service.
• Liaise with partner agencies and NHS colleagues.
• Contribute to the management team of a CAMHS MHST.

Skills

Strong clinical skills

Leadership skills

Excellent communication

Management skills

Passion for early intervention mental health

Job description

As Clinical Lead, you will be responsible for supporting the team to provide a clinically safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to CYP and families within several local primary and secondary education settings. You will work in close partnership with partner agencies as well as having an outward facing role of liaison and relationship building with our local and National MHST colleagues. Following recent expansion, an Oxleas CAMHS MHST management team has been developed which the postholder will be part of. 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 CYP and families.

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