We seek to appoint an enthusiastic CAMHS Senior CBT Therapist to provide a specialist service for young people in the Borough of Bromley within our Generic Team.
The Bromley Generic Team is a friendly, dynamic 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 as 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.
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 Teams:
1. Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway
2. Generic Team
3. Looked After and Adopted Children Team
4. 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.
Psychological Therapies:
The post-holder will also be part of a larger psychological therapies 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.
To provide a Senior CBT CAMHS 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-psychological therapies colleagues and to other, non-professional carers and providing supervision to the wider team colleagues 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.
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