Job Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Psychologist to take on a leadership role within the CAMHS Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. The post-holder, who will have experience working in EIP, will provide high quality specialist assessment, consultation, supervision and evidence based therapeutic interventions for children and young people presenting with Early Onset Psychosis. The post holder will provide leadership to the CAMHS EIP pathway across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley alongside the psychiatry lead and EIP steering group, while working clinically in Greenwich. The role sits within the Adolescent team in Greenwich CAMHS. The Adolescent team is a multi-disciplinary team, developing a mentalisation based approach to working with children and young people experiencing a broad range of complex and persistent mental health difficulties. There will be opportunities to work with young people on EIP pathway and those accessing the Adolescent team.
Psychology Discipline Opportunities
The post-holder will be part of a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS. We offer excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. There are also established links with psychology across the three Oxleas boroughs with joint psychology CPD events. The team offers placements for trainee clinical psychologists and the post holder will have opportunities to supervise psychology colleagues.
Main Duties of the Job
* To provide clinical leadership to the CAMHS Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) pathway across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley.
* To hold overall responsibility for ensuring that the Access and Waiting Time and Treatment targets for First Episode Psychosis set by the Department of Health (2015) are achieved across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley CAMHS.
* To work clinically within the Greenwich CAMHS EIP and Adolescent pathway offering highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment for young people with first episode psychosis and a range of complex mental health needs.
* To provide specialist supervision and consultation to colleagues around psychosis, voice hearing and unusual experiences.
* To develop and maintain the workforce for the EIP pathway, along with borough seniors, and ensure training and development needs are met. The post is based within the adolescent team in Greenwich CAMHS.
About Us
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 Listen
* We Care
Date Posted: 13 March 2025
Pay Scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £67,950 to £78,028 a year pro rata pa inc
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference Number: 277-7048170-CYP
Job Locations: Highpoint House, Shooters Hill, London, SE18 3RZ
Job Responsibilities:
* To provide specialist expertise to all Oxleas CAMHS teams about identifying, assessing and providing interventions for young people with First Episode Psychosis (FEP).
* To provide specialist clinical supervision to clinicians including those working on the Greenwich CAMHS EIP pathway, and across the service. This may include psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, and staff from other disciplines.
* To provide specialist consultation to Greenwich CAMHS staff around identifying, assessing and providing interventions for unusual experiences (including hearing voices, seeing visions, paranoid beliefs), both within and outside of the EIP pathway.
* To lead on organising the provision of urgent initial assessments of suspected psychosis to meet the 2-week Access and Waiting Time and Treatment targets for First Episode Psychosis set by the Department of Health (2015).
* To provide highly specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway, and other complex presentations in the Greenwich Adolescent 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 clients care.
* To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients FEP and other comorbid issues, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients within the Greenwich EIP pathway and others in the Greenwich Adolescent Team and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
* To act as care coordinator for young people on the Greenwich EIP pathway where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
* 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 be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality, evidence-based practice and appropriateness of the work of all clinicians on the EIP pathway including clinical supervisees.
* To work in close collaboration with other CAMHS leads to fulfil and further develop the evidence- based practice offer to children and families presenting with FEP.
* To contribute to developing strong joint working relationships and practices across Greenwich CAMHS and with the adult EIP teams, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organisation.
* To work with seniors on workforce development for the EIP pathway across the 3 boroughs including recruitment to meet current demands and supporting training and development needs.
* To lead on and complete the annual National Clinical Audit of Psychosis regarding waiting times and treatments targets for First Episode Psychosis, and other service audits as required.
* To identify areas for Quality Improvement and to lead on quality improvement projects, and service evaluations, to drive service improvement.
* Leading on relevant NICE guidance review, synthesizing findings and feeding into senior leadership when any gaps are identified to ensure appropriate provision of care for young people with FEP.
* To lead on developing and delivering training across Oxleas CAMHS relating to Early Intervention in Psychosis and working with unusual experiences.
* To be responsible for liaising with extended networks including adolescent inpatient units, CAMHS crisis team, paediatrics, social care, education, youth offending services.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology and HCP registration
Experience
* Completion of two years post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical experience with the client group of the post or a related client group
* Experience in the delivery and coordination of treatment for young people with a range of complex mental health difficulties including FEP, C-PTSD, PTSD, often in combination with neurodiversity
Knowledge and Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
* Qualification in CBT for psychosis in line with the NCAP requirements for EIP provision
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details
Employer Name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Highpoint House, Shooters Hill, London, SE18 3RZ
Employer's Website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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