Job summary
We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic clinical psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Bromley within our Adolescent Team.
The Bromley Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing rapid assessment, crisis intervention, and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 11 -18 years and their families who are experiencing acute and complex mental health difficulties. The role provides opportunities for crisis intervention, brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies. The team works within an Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) model, a systemic framework providing a team approach for working with the client, the team, the family and professional networks. In addition, the role offers opportunities to supervise more junior staff and take a lead on areas identified as priorities for improving our service. The successful candidate will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.
Main duties of the job
Bromley Service Overview
Bromley CAMHS is part of Oxleas Children and Young Person Directorate. The Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.
Bromley CAMHS service is large and comprises of the following teams:
- Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis pathway
- Generic Team
- Looked After and Adopted Children Team
- Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disabilities Team
Bromley CAMHS service opening hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and utilises hybrid working incorporating virtual, telephone and in person appointments.
Psychology Discipline
The post-holder will also be part of a larger psychology team within Bromley CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. CPD opportunities are linked to personal development review processes and funded by Psychological Therapies Department.
The Highly Specialist Clinical Psychology role includes a varied workload and set of responsibilities including clinical work, teaching training and supervision, and service development.
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
To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to 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.
Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Womans Network's.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to 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.
Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Womans Network's.
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology and HCP registration
Desirable
- Pre qualification training e.g qualifications in research methodology
Experience
Essential
- Completion of two years post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical experience with the client group of the post or a related client group
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
Person Specification
Training and qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology and HCP registration
Desirable
- Pre qualification training e.g qualifications in research methodology
Experience
Essential
- Completion of two years post-doctoral post-qualification supervised clinical experience with the client group of the post or a related client group
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
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).
