Specialist Registered Practitioner Psychologist Band 7 (Preceptorship)

Job summary

The Early Intervention Team of Greenwich CAMHS is offering a full-time Clinical or Counselling Psychology post which is available as a band 7-8a preceptorship with guaranteed funding for further training attached. We welcome applications from newly qualified psychologists and those who may be awaiting confirmation of their doctorate qualification or HCPC registration due to delays in submitting their thesis. Applications are also welcome from current band 7 colleagues wishing to progress to 8a. You will be able to access an evidence-based therapy training required by the service such as CFT, EMDR or MBT-A etc. Oxleas provides an internal CPD programme for psychological therapists for the first 2 years post qualification. Postholders will also be supported to attend supervisor training at Salomons Clinical Psychology training programme and will contribute to placements for clinical psychology trainees. Furthermore, 18 months to 2 years after qualifying, as a band 7 you will be eligible for promotion to 8a via the preceptorship scheme provided you have met the attached competences.

This post is based in multidisciplinary Early Intervention Team (EIT) in Greenwich CAMHS. The team provides training, consultation, supervision and brief focused clinical interventions within schools across Greenwich borough.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to CAMHS 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 client's care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's 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, families and groups, both as an autonomous individual clinician and in synthesis with colleagues in MDT, while adjusting and refining psychological formulations by drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options by 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 exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based care plans.

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich CAMHS

Highpoint House, Memorial Hospital

London

SE18 3RZ

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenwich CAMHS

Highpoint House, Memorial Hospital

London

SE18 3RZ

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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