Job summary
Bexley CAMHS are pleased to be able to offer a 1year fixed term 0.5 wte Clinical/Counselling Psychology (CP) post at band 8a. We are currently in the process of aligning with the i-Thrive framework to ensure timely, needs based interventions for CYP of Bexley. The postholder would provide interventions across the 'Getting Help' and 'Getting More Help' areas.
As a CP in Bexley CAMHS you will have a balanced job plan which meets the needs of the service and your own developmental needs/interests (including contributing to initial assessment clinics, robustly supported through post assessment multi-disciplinary case discussions). Additionally, you will provide formulation driven, evidence based psychological therapies. There will also be care coordination with the family and professional network. You will contribute psychological thinking to the service and supervise band 7 CPs, trainees and other professionals. You will be encouraged to develop/lead on creative service development initiatives.
The post will have a component (approximately 1 day per week) providing consultations to local mainstream primary/secondary schools, and training/liaison with schools/wider network.
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the CAMH service providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment.
Supervising trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and qualified clinical psychologists, offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non- psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bexley CAMHS covers the London Borough of Bexley and is a friendly, busy, CYP IAPT service. Staff that work in Bexley CAMHS describe a warm and caring multidisciplinary environment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from the diverse range of communities with which we work. We are based in a purposely designed building at Park Crescent (Erith Hospital Site), Park Crescent, Erith DA8 3EE. The site is easily accessible from Kent, SE/East London, and parts of Essex and Surrey. Parking available on site. There are also excellent public transport links including a direct train to Erith from London Bridge in under 40 mins.
Key tasks and responsibilities
Clinical:1. To provide highly 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 clients care.2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems and other relevant 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.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist 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.4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning Clinical Psychologist historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.6. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. 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.8. 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.9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.10. 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, and supervision1. To provide clinical placements, as the lead clinical supervisor, for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.2. To provide clinical supervision and professional guidance to qualified psychologists.3. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinicalpsychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.4. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.5. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.6. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Bexley CAMHS covers the London Borough of Bexley and is a friendly, busy, CYP IAPT service. Staff that work in Bexley CAMHS describe a warm and caring multidisciplinary environment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from the diverse range of communities with which we work. We are based in a purposely designed building at Park Crescent (Erith Hospital Site), Park Crescent, Erith DA8 3EE. The site is easily accessible from Kent, SE/East London, and parts of Essex and Surrey. Parking available on site. There are also excellent public transport links including a direct train to Erith from London Bridge in under 40 mins.
Key tasks and responsibilities
Clinical:1. To provide highly 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 clients care.2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems and other relevant 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.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist 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.4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning Clinical Psychologist historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment,treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.6. To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.7. 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.8. 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.9. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.10. 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, and supervision1. To provide clinical placements, as the lead clinical supervisor, for trainee clinical psychologists ensuring the trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.2. To provide clinical supervision and professional guidance to qualified psychologists.3. To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinicalpsychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.4. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.5. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.6. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration
- Directorate in Clinical or Equivalent
Desirable
- Other relevant qualification (eg MSc, Post Grad Diploma
- Training in supervision beyond basic Induction
- Training in Speciality Therapy relevant to the Post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS 2 years or more
- Experience of working as an 8a
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in exact field and post
- Experience of consulting with other agencies
- Experience of delivering teaching/training
- Experience of clinical Leadership of an aspect of a service
Knowledge and Skills
Desirable
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
- Demonstrate knowledge of wider policy posts which are relevant to the post
- Possess transferrable skills from other post which are relevant to the post
- Demonstrate awareness of safeguarding and risk as relevant to the post
- Demonstrate awareness of power and diversity issues
- Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration
- Directorate in Clinical or Equivalent
Desirable
- Other relevant qualification (eg MSc, Post Grad Diploma
- Training in supervision beyond basic Induction
- Training in Speciality Therapy relevant to the Post
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS 2 years or more
- Experience of working as an 8a
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in exact field and post
- Experience of consulting with other agencies
- Experience of delivering teaching/training
- Experience of clinical Leadership of an aspect of a service
Knowledge and Skills
Desirable
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
- Demonstrate knowledge of wider policy posts which are relevant to the post
- Possess transferrable skills from other post which are relevant to the post
- Demonstrate awareness of safeguarding and risk as relevant to the post
- Demonstrate awareness of power and diversity issues
- Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
