Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Principal Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 19 June 2025

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Principle Clinical Psychologist in the Bromley CAMHS Generic team. The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Psychology Leads and the Generic Team Manager in supporting the high-quality delivery of evidence based psychological therapy pathways and the effective functioning of the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will support the use of routine outcome measures within the team. The post holder will hold supervisory responsibilities and will support the service in providing supervision to qualified clinical psychologists up to the grade of 8a as well as colleagues from other professions. The postholder will support leadership projects, contribute to service development, quality improvement and research, audit and evaluation across the service. The successful candidate will be supported with ongoing continuing professional development opportunities and relevant training as required. The post holder will hold responsibility for contributing to the continuing professional development of colleagues in the service

Main duties of the job

To support the leadership of clinical psychology and the Generic Team in Bromley CAMHS.
To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to both psychology and non psychology colleagues.
To support the provision of high-quality evidence based psychological clinical practice within the team.
To support the routine use of outcome measures to monitor progress of interventions meaningfully within the team.
To support the multi-disciplinary team functioning, chairing and leading within team meetings as required.
To support the monitoring and implementation of clinical standards within the Generic Senior Leadership Team.
To deliver highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions as a senior clinician within CAMHS, supporting on clinical pathways and service developments as required.
To support evaluation, audit and research within the Generic Team and wider service as required.

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

Date posted

05 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£67,950 to £78,028 a year pro rata pa inc.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-7113114-CYP

Job locations

Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House

38 Masons Hill

Bromley

BR2 9JG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Doctoral Level Training accredited by HCPC
Completion of post qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists

Desirable

Pre-qualification training e.g. Research Methodology/Staff training

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessments and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups (inc across the age range/clinical severity)

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision

Skills/Ability/Knowledge

Essential

High-level ability to communicate effectively
Skills in providing consultation to others
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

Doctoral Level Training accredited by HCPC
Completion of post qualification specialist training including training in supervision of trainee clinical psychologists

Desirable

Pre-qualification training e.g. Research Methodology/Staff training

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessments and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups (inc across the age range/clinical severity)

Desirable

Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision

Skills/Ability/Knowledge

Essential

High-level ability to communicate effectively
Skills in providing consultation to others
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House

38 Masons Hill

Bromley

BR2 9JG

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House

38 Masons Hill

Bromley

BR2 9JG

Employer's website

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