Overview

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to join our CAMHS services as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist within our Adolescent Team. The Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 11-18 years and their families. The postholder will provide brief and long-term therapeutic work as well as consultation within the team and to partner agencies and supervision of junior staff. The successful candidate will utilise research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.

Bromley CAMHS are passionate about working with children, young people and their families, and are dedicated to providing high-quality and caring community mental healthcare services that improve outcomes and build resilience in community relationships. The successful applicant will join a vibrant and experienced multi-disciplinary CAMHS team providing a variety of evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. There is a culture of joint, cross-discipline working in the team, which provides an environment for learning and development in addition to formal CPD opportunities.

The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development. Bromley CAMHS has close relationships with the wider specialist CAMHS, our cross-borough crisis team for young people, our DBT service and the wider South London Partnership. We have a large, well-established and supportive Clinical Psychology department that benefits from excellent links with the South Thames Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers and provide supervision to clinical psychologists/psychological therapists and trainees.
• Provide initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the Adolescent Team.
• Offer supervision to more junior staff.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
• Utilise research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Benefits

• Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (life assurance) and leave package
• Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
• Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)
• Cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare
• Wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) and vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience
• Dedicated time for service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement framework

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• HCPC registration
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings (outpatient, community, primary care, inpatient)
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the life span with varying clinical severity

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Other relevant qualification (e.g. MSc, Post Grad Diploma) or pre-qualification training/qualification in research or applied psychology
• Training in specialist therapy relevant to the post
• Training in supervision (beyond basic induction)
• Experience of supervising and of clinical leadership of an aspect of a service

Knowledge & Skills

• Risk assessment/management in the client group
• Complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Ability to apply research and audit specific to the post and knowledge of wider policy context
• Possesses transferable skills relevant to the post and ability to use outcome measures in therapy

Disclosure and Regulation

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure to the DBS. Applicants may require Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK.

Employer details

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Stepping Stones House, 38 Masons Hill, Bromley, BR2 9JG