Job summary
We are looking for a highly skilled, motivated and committed Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join the Greenwich CAMHS service at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.
We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds and support flexible and agile working arrangements.
Psychological professions are highly valued within Oxleas, and the successful candidate can expect an inclusive and supportive context within which to develop your career and contribute to the development of our CAMHS offer.
The Consultant Clinical Psychologist post for Greenwich CAMHS is responsible for professional leadership for Psychology across the service. The post is based clinically within the Adolescent Team/Pathway. The post holder is also part of the CAMHS management and leadership team for Greenwich CAMHS.
Within the Adolescent Team/Pathway, the post holder is part of the senior leadership group for the Team, with the opportunity to apply for the role of Adolescent Team Clinical Lead (offered on a fixed tenure basis).
Main duties of the job
- To lead on the provision of a high-quality Psychology service within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To provide Clinical Psychology leadership and expertise within the Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team/Pathway, as part of the senior leadership group for the Adolescent Team.
- To actively contribute to the work of the wider Greenwich CAMHS Management Team, working in close collaboration with other lead clinicians and managers.
- To contribute to clinical, professional and service developments across Oxleas CAMHS.
- To be responsible for good clinical governance, quality, and appropriateness of the work of Psychologists across Greenwich CAMHS
- To ensure the conduct of research, audits, quality improvement and service evaluation relevant to the provision of psychological care across the service.
- To lead on the development of the Psychology workforce within 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're
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To lead on the provision of a high-quality Psychology service within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To provide Clinical Psychology leadership and expertise within the Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team/Pathway, as part of the senior leadership group for the Adolescent Team.
- To actively contribute to the work of the wider Greenwich CAMHS Management Team, working in close collaboration with other lead clinicians and managers.
- To contribute to clinical, professional and service developments across Oxleas CAMHS.
- To be responsible for good clinical governance, quality, and appropriateness of the work of Psychologists across Greenwich CAMHS
- To ensure the conduct of research, audits, quality improvement and service evaluation relevant to the provision of psychological care across the service.
- To lead on the development of the Psychology workforce within Greenwich CAMHS.
Leadership
- To take responsibility for the professional leadership of Psychology provision across Greenwich CAMHS, ensuring the provision of high quality, psychological care both within the Adolescent Team/Pathway and wider Greenwich CAMHS services.
- To ensure that Psychology provision across the service is fit for purpose; in terms of workforce, clinical practice, and effectiveness.
- To exercise responsibility for the systematic clinical and professional governance of Psychology within the service.
- To be professionally accountable to the Head of Psychological Therapies for Children and Young Peoples Services. To be operationally accountable to the Operational Manager for Greenwich CAMHS.
- To liaise closely with the Clinical Lead for Greenwich CAMHS, Adolescent Team Clinical Lead, Team Manager, and Oxleas CAMHS Discipline Lead for Clinical Psychology.
- To lead effectively across service and organisational boundaries, liaising with others in clinical, operational, and corporate roles as relevant to the role.
Management responsibilities
- To take responsibility for ensuring that the management of Psychology staff adheres to all organisational HR policies and procedures.
- To be responsible for ensuring appropriate arrangements are in place for the management of all psychological therapy staff members within Greenwich CAMHS, including allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action.
- To be responsible for ensuring appropriate arrangements are in place to provide professional, clinical and management supervision to all Psychology staff members within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To lead on and ensure arrangements are in place for the appraisals of, and personal development plans for all Psychology staff members within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To act as an authorised signatory as appropriate within the service.
Clinical
- Working within a highly specialist CAMHS, to undertake direct and indirect clinical work within an Adolescent Team/Pathway.
- To ensure the provision of highly developed specialist psychological assessments, base on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, clinical interviews, direct and indirect observations and engagement with young people, their families and wider networks.
- To provide highly specialist clinical leadership, to ensure the clinical formulation of young peoples presenting concerns, drawing on relevant psychological models and practices.
- To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of children and young peoples mental health problems, based on relevant evidence-based theoretical frameworks and best practice guidance, across the whole range of CAMHS care settings.
- To lead on the implementation of a range of highly specialist psychological interventions as part of young peoples care within Greenwich CAMHS, synthesising, adjusting and reformulating care; drawing on a range of models and integration of psychological care within a wider MDT context.
- To draw upon clinical expertise and experience specifically in the field of adolescent mental health, with reference to psychological models of care relevant to this client group; including the application of AMBIT, MBT and DBT approaches.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, taking into account a specialist psychological knowledge and skill base, alongside highly complex factors impacting on children and young peoples mental health.
- To exercise full clinical responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of children and young people, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions, communicating effectively with referrers and others involved in their care.
- To provide clinical supervision, and to oversee the overall provision of clinical supervision for both Psychologists and others providing psychological assessments and interventions within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals within and outside the service, contributing directly to clients engagement, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, including clinical risk assessment and management.
- To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services, within Psychology and across Greenwich CAMHS.
- To act as a Care Co-Ordinator, where appropriate, in line with the CAMHS Care Co-ordination policy, and to lead on supporting implementation of the policy by Psychologists across the service.
- Where appropriate, to provide professional reports for Court purposes and to give verbal evidence in Court.
Research
- To actively seek out and engage in research opportunities relevant to the development and delivery of evidence-based psychological practice within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To deploy professional skills in research, evaluation and audit; contributing to the evidence-based or understanding and provision of high quality psychological care within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To utilise psychological theory and research to inform the delivery of evidence-based practice in clinical work; service and pathway developments, team-working and the development of the Psychology workforce.
- Alongside other senior clinicians and managers, to oversee the implementation, and interpretation of CAMHS clinical outcomes monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
- To provide research advice and supervision to other staff (including trainees) within Oxleas CAMHS.
- To initiate and implement projects informed by research methods; including complex audits and service evaluations; working with others within and outside Greenwich CAMHS to help develop and improve services.
Communication
- To develop and maintain key working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, by communicating effectively with service users, Psychology colleagues and others; within and beyond Greenwich CAMHS.
- To effectively and sensitively communicate highly complex and emotionally significant information, often in clinically and organisationally challenging contexts.
- To develop, maintain and uphold professional standards, making an active contribution to Continuing Professional Development, training, and service development programmes.
- To ensure that all Psychology staff within Greenwich CAMHS maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, national and local policies, and that all qualified Psychology staff maintain HCPC registration, via effective dissemination of expectations and relevant guidance.
- To articulate and promote best practice within Psychology and evidence-based psychological practice across CAMHS, providing advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care across the service.
- To exercise the skills of a reflective and reflexive scientist-practitioner, including taking part in professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of Clinical Psychology, CAMHS and related clinical practice.
- To adhere to and ensure the highest standards of record-keeping and report-writing, in accordance with professional codes of practice and local clinical practice standards for CAMHS.
On Call/Unsocial Hours
- The post holder is expected to participate in the Greenwich CAMHS Senior Clinician on Duty rota, during working hours.
General
- To develop an effective agile working approach, to combine face-to-face and virtual working, in line with the Greenwich CAMHS service charter.
- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow Trust policies relating to its management.
- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations relating to abuse, mental health risk and trauma and to support others involved in such situations.
- To work flexibly as agreed within the overall Job Plan.
- To undertake work that involves sitting in a constrained position for long periods of time, to carry out therapeutic and supervisory duties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To lead on the provision of a high-quality Psychology service within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To provide Clinical Psychology leadership and expertise within the Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team/Pathway, as part of the senior leadership group for the Adolescent Team.
- To actively contribute to the work of the wider Greenwich CAMHS Management Team, working in close collaboration with other lead clinicians and managers.
- To contribute to clinical, professional and service developments across Oxleas CAMHS.
- To be responsible for good clinical governance, quality, and appropriateness of the work of Psychologists across Greenwich CAMHS
- To ensure the conduct of research, audits, quality improvement and service evaluation relevant to the provision of psychological care across the service.
- To lead on the development of the Psychology workforce within Greenwich CAMHS.
Leadership
- To take responsibility for the professional leadership of Psychology provision across Greenwich CAMHS, ensuring the provision of high quality, psychological care both within the Adolescent Team/Pathway and wider Greenwich CAMHS services.
- To ensure that Psychology provision across the service is fit for purpose; in terms of workforce, clinical practice, and effectiveness.
- To exercise responsibility for the systematic clinical and professional governance of Psychology within the service.
- To be professionally accountable to the Head of Psychological Therapies for Children and Young Peoples Services. To be operationally accountable to the Operational Manager for Greenwich CAMHS.
- To liaise closely with the Clinical Lead for Greenwich CAMHS, Adolescent Team Clinical Lead, Team Manager, and Oxleas CAMHS Discipline Lead for Clinical Psychology.
- To lead effectively across service and organisational boundaries, liaising with others in clinical, operational, and corporate roles as relevant to the role.
Management responsibilities
- To take responsibility for ensuring that the management of Psychology staff adheres to all organisational HR policies and procedures.
- To be responsible for ensuring appropriate arrangements are in place for the management of all psychological therapy staff members within Greenwich CAMHS, including allocation and review of work, job planning, review of performance, sickness management and initial stages of grievance or disciplinary action.
- To be responsible for ensuring appropriate arrangements are in place to provide professional, clinical and management supervision to all Psychology staff members within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To lead on and ensure arrangements are in place for the appraisals of, and personal development plans for all Psychology staff members within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To act as an authorised signatory as appropriate within the service.
Clinical
- Working within a highly specialist CAMHS, to undertake direct and indirect clinical work within an Adolescent Team/Pathway.
- To ensure the provision of highly developed specialist psychological assessments, base on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, clinical interviews, direct and indirect observations and engagement with young people, their families and wider networks.
- To provide highly specialist clinical leadership, to ensure the clinical formulation of young peoples presenting concerns, drawing on relevant psychological models and practices.
- To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of children and young peoples mental health problems, based on relevant evidence-based theoretical frameworks and best practice guidance, across the whole range of CAMHS care settings.
- To lead on the implementation of a range of highly specialist psychological interventions as part of young peoples care within Greenwich CAMHS, synthesising, adjusting and reformulating care; drawing on a range of models and integration of psychological care within a wider MDT context.
- To draw upon clinical expertise and experience specifically in the field of adolescent mental health, with reference to psychological models of care relevant to this client group; including the application of AMBIT, MBT and DBT approaches.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, taking into account a specialist psychological knowledge and skill base, alongside highly complex factors impacting on children and young peoples mental health.
- To exercise full clinical responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of children and young people, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions, communicating effectively with referrers and others involved in their care.
- To provide clinical supervision, and to oversee the overall provision of clinical supervision for both Psychologists and others providing psychological assessments and interventions within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals within and outside the service, contributing directly to clients engagement, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan, including clinical risk assessment and management.
- To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services, within Psychology and across Greenwich CAMHS.
- To act as a Care Co-Ordinator, where appropriate, in line with the CAMHS Care Co-ordination policy, and to lead on supporting implementation of the policy by Psychologists across the service.
- Where appropriate, to provide professional reports for Court purposes and to give verbal evidence in Court.
Research
- To actively seek out and engage in research opportunities relevant to the development and delivery of evidence-based psychological practice within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To deploy professional skills in research, evaluation and audit; contributing to the evidence-based or understanding and provision of high quality psychological care within Greenwich CAMHS.
- To utilise psychological theory and research to inform the delivery of evidence-based practice in clinical work; service and pathway developments, team-working and the development of the Psychology workforce.
- Alongside other senior clinicians and managers, to oversee the implementation, and interpretation of CAMHS clinical outcomes monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
- To provide research advice and supervision to other staff (including trainees) within Oxleas CAMHS.
- To initiate and implement projects informed by research methods; including complex audits and service evaluations; working with others within and outside Greenwich CAMHS to help develop and improve services.
Communication
- To develop and maintain key working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, by communicating effectively with service users, Psychology colleagues and others; within and beyond Greenwich CAMHS.
- To effectively and sensitively communicate highly complex and emotionally significant information, often in clinically and organisationally challenging contexts.
- To develop, maintain and uphold professional standards, making an active contribution to Continuing Professional Development, training, and service development programmes.
- To ensure that all Psychology staff within Greenwich CAMHS maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, national and local policies, and that all qualified Psychology staff maintain HCPC registration, via effective dissemination of expectations and relevant guidance.
- To articulate and promote best practice within Psychology and evidence-based psychological practice across CAMHS, providing advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care across the service.
- To exercise the skills of a reflective and reflexive scientist-practitioner, including taking part in professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of Clinical Psychology, CAMHS and related clinical practice.
- To adhere to and ensure the highest standards of record-keeping and report-writing, in accordance with professional codes of practice and local clinical practice standards for CAMHS.
On Call/Unsocial Hours
- The post holder is expected to participate in the Greenwich CAMHS Senior Clinician on Duty rota, during working hours.
General
- To develop an effective agile working approach, to combine face-to-face and virtual working, in line with the Greenwich CAMHS service charter.
- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow Trust policies relating to its management.
- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations relating to abuse, mental health risk and trauma and to support others involved in such situations.
- To work flexibly as agreed within the overall Job Plan.
- To undertake work that involves sitting in a constrained position for long periods of time, to carry out therapeutic and supervisory duties
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC
- Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Completed training in clinical supervision
- Completed training/CPD in clinical leadership
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional bodies for Clinical Psychology, relevant to the post
Desirable
- Further training in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to children and young people's mental health, through formal qualification (post-graduate diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice in specialism
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, including working with complex Adolescents requiring specialist mental health support.
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of providing clinical supervision qualified and non-qualified Psychologists, and clinicians from other disciplines
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, quality improvement and/or audit and service evaluation projects
- Experience of participation in workforce development and recruitment
Desirable
- Experience of providing teaching and training to psychological professionals and others
- Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area
- Experience that supports working within diverse local communities
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of child and adolescent mental health and the evidence base for relevant interventions
- Knowledge of relevant assessment procedures and clinical psychometrics, including advanced knowledge and experience in the administration of assessments with children and adolescents.
- Skills to deliver psychological care across cultural and other differences
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC
- Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Completed training in clinical supervision
- Completed training/CPD in clinical leadership
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional bodies for Clinical Psychology, relevant to the post
Desirable
- Further training in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to children and young people's mental health, through formal qualification (post-graduate diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice in specialism
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, including working with complex Adolescents requiring specialist mental health support.
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of providing clinical supervision qualified and non-qualified Psychologists, and clinicians from other disciplines
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, quality improvement and/or audit and service evaluation projects
- Experience of participation in workforce development and recruitment
Desirable
- Experience of providing teaching and training to psychological professionals and others
- Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area
- Experience that supports working within diverse local communities
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of child and adolescent mental health and the evidence base for relevant interventions
- Knowledge of relevant assessment procedures and clinical psychometrics, including advanced knowledge and experience in the administration of assessments with children and adolescents.
- Skills to deliver psychological care across cultural and other differences
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).
