Assistant Psychologist

We have exciting opportunities for three enthusiastic and highly motivated assistant psychologists to join our team at Bromley CAMHS.

We have three 2 year fixed term roles to offer as detailed below:
1 x Part Time (15 hours a week) post is available to support the CAMHS Crisis Data Evaluation Project. This role is to support the evaluation of how young people present in acute services due to mental health crisis. Highly proficient skills in IT (excel), data management, data analysis and report writing are desirable. There may also be opportunities to support clinical work and wider projects in the service.
- Having good IT skills and knowledge of Excel and SPSS would be an advantage to support data gathering, analysis and presentation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are necessary to be able to liaise and support clinical staff and teams.
- An interest in working with children and young people is essential.
- A comittment to continued professional development and reflective practice under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist.
- Attendance to MDT Team, Psychology Department and Service wide meetings.
- Although the primary task in these roles is to support data collection, there will be opportunities to undertake clinical work under supervision.

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
- To help support the data collection processes for Children and Young Peoples IAPT (CYP-IAPT) within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service.
- To assist in clinically related administration, completion of audits, and development of evaluation and/or research projects, teaching and quality improvement / service development project work.
- There will be opportunities to undertake clinical work under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Please see attached Job Description for further information