This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Bromley CAMHS Outcomes Clinical Lead. This post will lead on further embedding the use of a clinical outcomes-led approach across Bromley CAMHS and take forward the CYP-IAPT principles into Bromley CAMHS services. The post-holder will work closely with other CAMHS borough Outcomes leads, the cross-borough Clinical Outcomes Group, the Bromley operational and clinical leads, and report into the Bromley CAMHS Leadership Group. Developing strong relationships with team managers and clinical leads to support clinical outcomes will be a key part of this role. The role will involve leading addressing issues affecting engagement and reporting. This will include developing and delivering induction and training packages, ensuring that services have access to support with clinical outcomes work via their local Assistant Psychologists, and meeting local and national reporting requirements, to support service development and quality assurance.
This post is based in the multidisciplinary NDLD team in Bromley CAMHS. The team provides specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for children, young people and their families with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to co-morbid mental health difficulties. The NDLD team works closely with education, social care and other agencies within the network to support young people.
The role provides senior clinical leadership, working closely with NDLD leadership colleagues and operational management to support all aspects of multidisciplinary CAMHS work. The postholder has specific responsibility for psychological therapies and outcomes delivery and leading quality initiatives within the pathway.
Bromley CAMHS is the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Bromley.
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
Key Task and Responsibilities
· To lead, manage and plan the delivery of outcomes measurement and reporting across all teams in Bromley CAMHS.
· To lead on the operational and clinical use of POD in Bromley CAMHS as an electronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHS outcomes lead to support POD development and adaptation of processes where required.
· To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to clinicians for their utilisation of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
· To provide specialist outcomes focused supervision to Assistant psychologists working within teams to support and improve the use of outcome measures, providing feedback within teams and in the assimilation of data to be fed-back through a variety of means and in different settings.
· To lead on the assimilation and appropriate presentation of outcomes data, including report writing for presentation in a variety of forums
· To manage the workload of the data collecting group. To report on progress of data collection and quality to Operational and Clinical leads, and CAMHS-wide and contribute to Directorate level Annual Plan and produce other reports as requested by Commissioners.
· To be responsible to the Bromley CAMHS Service Manager for the monitoring and implementation of clinical standards in relation to clinical outcomes
· To develop and support initiatives to improve the meaningful use of outcome measures across the service
· To deliver highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions as a senior clinician within CAMHS, supporting on clinical pathways and service developments as required.
Management responsibilities
· To lead on the operational and clinical use of POD in Bromley CAMHS as an electronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHS outcomes lead to support POD development and adaptation of processes where required.
· To ensure appropriate systems are in place for the clinical and professional supervision of Assistant Psychologists within the service. To actively work to support the professional development of assistant psychologists employed within the service, in conjunction with the psychology team, in their progression to clinical psychology training
· To provide professional, clinical and management supervision to less senior practitioners, assistants and trainees and the work of other professions as appropriate and having completed the relevant training.
· To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
· To manage the workloads of clinical psychologists, assistant and graduate psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
· To manage the workload of the data collecting group. To report on progress of data collection and quality to the Bromley Management Group and CAMHS- wide clinical outcomes group (COG) providing written reports as requested. To contribute to Directorate level Annual Report and Plan and to produce other reports as requested by Commissioners.
· To ensure the timely delivery of requested reports, including but not limited to, the Bromley CAMHS annual report, the Tri-Borough Annual report, and 6 monthly borough reports.
Leadership
· To work with team managers, clinical leads and the service manager to embed the use of clinical outcomes within teams and the service, including the use of POD
· To provide leadership on how outcomes data can be used to shape service delivery and improvement
· To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence- based practice in individual work and work with other team members
· To coordinate and organise multi-faceted outcomes activities service-wide and contribute to chairing the Three Borough Clinical Outcomes group as required.
· To lead on recruitment of assistant psychologists supporting outcomes work within the service, in liaison with team managers and the lead clinical psychologist
· To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to clinical psychology and mental health.
· To support the development of psychology and non-psychology colleges, both directly in supervision and PDR, and indirectly.
· 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 postholder’s professional and service manager(s).
Clinical
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of children and young people 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 client’s care.
· To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems and other relevant issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of 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.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
· To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
· To contribute to overall service delivery and development as required.
· To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
· To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025
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