Bromley CAMHS are pleased to offer a full time Clinical Psychology post available at band 7 – 8a preceptorship within the Bromley CAMHS Generic Team. This post comes with guaranteed funding for further professional training attached. We seek to appoint an enthusiastic clinical psychologist to join our friendly and dynamic multidisciplinary team. Please see attached information regarding the preceptorship.
The role provides opportunities for brief and long-term therapeutic work, group therapy, as well consultation within the team and to partnership agencies. In addition, the role offers opportunities to supervise more junior staff and take a lead on areas identified as priorities for service development, evaluation and quality improvement. The successful candidate will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service in line with the service’s policies and procedures.
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 post holder’s profession and service manager.
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines in CAMHS.
Psychology Discipline
The post-holder will be part of a larger psychology team within Bromley CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for CPD and progression. CPD opportunities are linked to personal development review processes and are funded by the Psychological Therapies Department. There is a strong and well led network of CAMHS psychologists across Oxleas, providing opportunities for networking, to attend joint events, special interest groups, supervision groups, and twice annual conferences (for psychologists across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich and colleagues from specialist Oxleas DBT CAMHS services).
This role includes a varied workload and responsibilities including clinical work, teaching, training, supervision, evaluation, audit and research, service development and quality improvement.
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
To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Generic Team, providing specialist psychological assessment and evidence based treatment intervention.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To act as a care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care (including use of routine outcome measures) including collaboration with clients, their family, and the involved network.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner orally and in written reports.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and line management from the identified line manager.
Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to more junior 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.
To contribute to internal and external training programmes.
Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. 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 the service and professional management on aspects of the service where psychological / organisational matters need addressing.
To help supervise and manage the workload of assistant psychologists within the framework of the team / services policies and procedures.
To support appropriate recruitment processes within the wider service.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Nov 2024
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