We are pleased to advertise an exciting opportunity for an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS as aClinical Psychologistwithin theLooked After and Adopted Children's Team at Bromley CAMHS, ThisBand 7role is suitable for new/recently qualified Clinical Psychologists.
As a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Bromley CAMHS you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. This will include contributing to initial assessments which will be robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions. In addition, you will be providing formulation driven, evidence based psychological therapies. You will also be care co-ordinator for some young people, involving working with the family and wider professional network. You will contribute to the provision of a robust Duty service in partnership with service wide colleagues and seniors. You will contribute psychological thinking to the work of this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary service and will supervise the clinical work of assistant psychologists, trainees and other professionals. You will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives to meet the needs of the population. You will be supported to develop areas of specialist skill. You will have the opportunity to meet regularly with a supportive, inclusive psychology department.
The successful applicant will join a vibrant & experiencedmulti-disciplinary CAMHS teamproviding a variety ofevidence-based interventions, drawing on your professional skills values, for children & young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. This includes specialist assessment, CBT, DBT, IPT, EMDR & other evidence-based therapeutic interventions, in addition to developing & delivering consultation, training & supervision for other professionals working with children & young people in other settings.
We are committed to developing our workforce & supporting progress into many other roles available within the Trust – including offering a range of internal & externalbespoke CAMHS training/CPD opportunities.
We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to provide all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead inservice development initiativesthrough the TrustQuality Improvement(Qi) framework.
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 Tasks and Responsibilities
Clinical:
• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients 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, 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 care plans.
• 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.
• To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, training, andsupervision:
• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues, as well as line management from the identified line manager.
• To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical / counselling psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.
• To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychology staff and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of individual cases for trainee clinical psychologists.
• To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
• To contribute to external and internal training programmes.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development:
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
• To help manage the workloads of assistant psychologists, within the framework of the team/service’s policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of assistant psychologists/graduate psychology staff.
• To be involved in service development projects as agreed by the professional lead.
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Apr 2025
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