CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS and involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties. The post holder will have the opportunity to take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a CBT pathway or treatment pathway for PTSD. These are just two examples and there will be scope to discuss other leadership options aligning with the post-holder’s interests. Other aspects of the role include the following: providing specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising trainee clinical psychologists and qualified psychologists; offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation; and utilising research skills for audit, service development and research projects within the service. In addition, the postholder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold a key role as a senior psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline. There are opportunities for supervision of Band 7 colleagues, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. As a senior psychologist, there are possibilities for service development and quality improvement work.

The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions.

The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development.

Greenwich CAMHS has close relationships with the wider specialist CAMHS, our cross-borough crisis team for young people, our DBT service and the wider South London Partnership.

We have a large, well-established and supportive Clinical Psychology department that benefits from excellent links with the South Thames (Salomon’s) Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities. As Clinical Psychologists, we are well integrated in the multi-disciplinary teams across the service with strong and positive inter-disciplinary relationships.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed Job Description is attached.  Main responsibilities include:

• Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Greenwich  CAMHS Generic Team, providing highly 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.
• Providing initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the team.
• Offering supervision to more junior staff.
• 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 to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Woman’s Network's.

The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued and offer benefits including:

• Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (life assurance) and leave package
• Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
• Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)

Benefits include a cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare. Staff are able to access wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) & vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.

We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to providing all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.