Job summary
The Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist will join an innovative team at an exciting time in its development. From 2024, NCATS will be offering a pioneering whole-family service to families affected by sibling sexual abuse. As part of this offer, NCATS will integrate with a therapeutic child sexual abuse service within the NSPCC. The post-holder will have opportunities to contribute to the future direction and development of the service model, taking forward learning from new ways of working and participating in ongoing evaluation and research.
The post-holder will have experience in a CAMHS and/or forensic setting, have excellent therapeutic skills, and be able to be responsive and flexible in working with young people. Experience of working therapeutically with children who have experienced sexual abuse would be particularly welcome.
The post-holder will be seconded from Oxleas to the NSPCC under a Service Level Agreement and receive day-to-day line management and clinical supervision within the NSPCC, from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. The post-holder will have access to professional CPD via Oxleas, as well as access to wider peer support within Oxleas Psychological Therapies and the Children and Young People's Directorate.
Clinical service delivery by NCATS will be undertaken in Camden.
Main duties of the job
The National Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (NCATS) is the NSPCC's national harmful sexual behaviour service. The post holder will a multi-disciplinary team of psychologists, family therapists, and social workers in undertaking assessments and providing intervention to children/young people and their parents/carers where there have been significant concerns about their sexual behaviour. The children and their families referred to NCATS often present with neurodiversity, a high level of systemic need, and early life experiences of danger and adversity. The post holder will also provide consultation and training to professionals, both internally to other NSPCC harmful sexual behaviour services, and externally to the wider professional network.
Within NCATS, the post-holder will also provideclinical supervision as required by the wider multi-disciplinary team.
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
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the post available.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the post available.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, or equivalent, holding a current professional registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable
- Experience of applying specialist psychological approaches to working clinically with looked after children and children at the edge of care, and their families
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application and adaptation of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working in a service working with infants, younger children and their families
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
- Highly developed report-writing skills
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability and skills to work effectively within an MDT, contributing to effective team functioning
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care, including health inequalities affecting children and their families
Effort/Environment
Essential
- Ability to work across sites (Camden and Barking and Dagenham) and to travel between these
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, and/or with people who engage in highly distressed or aggressive behaviour
Desirable
- Ability to manage and respond effectively to unexpected interruptions or changes to routine, clinical risk situations, and contexts of uncertainty and change
- Ability to draw upon self-care and reflective practice skills to support own health and wellbeing at work, seeking support from others as needed
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, or equivalent, holding a current professional registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
Desirable
- Experience of applying specialist psychological approaches to working clinically with looked after children and children at the edge of care, and their families
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application and adaptation of psychological therapies in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working in a service working with infants, younger children and their families
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
- Highly developed report-writing skills
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability and skills to work effectively within an MDT, contributing to effective team functioning
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care, including health inequalities affecting children and their families
Effort/Environment
Essential
- Ability to work across sites (Camden and Barking and Dagenham) and to travel between these
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, and/or with people who engage in highly distressed or aggressive behaviour
Desirable
- Ability to manage and respond effectively to unexpected interruptions or changes to routine, clinical risk situations, and contexts of uncertainty and change
- Ability to draw upon self-care and reflective practice skills to support own health and wellbeing at work, seeking support from others as needed
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).
