Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HCPC registration

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within its CAMHS services. The role is a full-time Band 7 post focusing on high-quality psychological assessment and therapy across care sectors, with responsibilities in supervision and MDT collaboration.

The post involves contributing to best practices, maintaining CPD, and working within HCPC standards and Trust policies. A strong emphasis on reflective practice and professional development is expected.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology are required.
• MSc or Postgraduate Diploma may be considered as relevant qualification.
• Training in specialist therapy relevant to the post is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments and therapy.
• Offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologists and carers.
• Maintain high standards of clinical record-keeping and professional governance.

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

HCPC Registration

MSc / Post Grad Diploma

Training in specialist therapy

Job description

Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Bexley CAMHS are pleased to be able to offer a full time Clinical or Counselling Psychology post which is available at band 7.

The post holder willprovide a qualified specialist clinical / counselling psychology service to clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder's professional and service manager(s).

To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.

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 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 clients care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• HCPC Registration
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Other relevant qualification (eg MSc, Post Grad diploma)
• Training in specialist therapy relevant to post

Experience

• Experience of working as a band 7 clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS.
• Specialist (3rd year) placement during training in CAMHS
• Experience of in exact field of post
• Experience of working as an assistant psychologist in CAMHS
• Experience of consulting to other professionals and agencies
• Experience of delivering teaching/training

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrates knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
• Demonstrates knowledge of wider policy context relevant to post
• Possesses transferable skills from other posts (not already scored) which are relevant to the post
• Demonstrates awareness of safeguarding & risk as relevant to the post
• Demonstrates awareness of power and diversity issues
• Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised

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.