Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic clinical psychologistto provide a specialist service for young people in the Borough of Bromley within our Generic Team.

The Bromley Generic Team is a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions, including groups, for young people between the ages of 0-18 years and their families who are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The role provides opportunities for brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies. In addition, the role offers opportunities to supervise more junior staff and take a lead on areas identified as priorities for improving our service. The successful candidate will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.

Main duties of the job

Bromley Service Overview

Bromley CAMHS is part of Oxleas Children and Young Person Directorate. The Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

Bromley CAMHS is large and comprises of the following teams:

Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway Generic Team Looked After and Adopted Children Team Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities Team

Bromley CAMHS service opening hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and utilises hybrid working incorporating virtual, telephone and in person appointments.

Psychology Discipline

The post-holder will also be part of a larger psychology team within Bromley CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. CPD opportunities are linked to personal development review processes and funded by Psychological Therapies Department.

This role includes a varied workload and set of responsibilities including clinical work, teaching, training, supervision, and service development.

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 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 description

Job responsibilities

To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Generic Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and intervention.

Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to clinical psychologists/psychological therapists and trainees.

Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Doctorate training in clinical psychology, accredited by the BPS Current HCPC registration

Desirable

Training in research methods and/or other fields of applied psychology

Expereince/Knowledge/Skills

Essential

Experience of psychological assessment and treatment across care settings Knowledge of child protection, child in need and looked-after children legislation and procedures Well-developed verbal and written communications skills

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management

Desirable

Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Evidence of supervision skills and/or experience

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