Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a new fixed term role as Principal Clinical Psychologist, providing specialist clinical leadership within and across Oxleas' CAMHS clinical pathways and services, to ensure high quality care is provided to children and young people experiencing gender-related distress and gender incongruence; aligned with the recommendations of the Cass Review and NHS England guidance. This role will lead work to embed previous training and support further development of knowledge and skills for CAMHS staff, in line with the recommendations of the Cass review. The Gender Specialist Lead role would also coordinate the triage and screening of referrals, both internally and onwards to national specialist services.
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.
Main duties of the job
For children and young people experiencing gender-related distress and incongruence:
- To support and provide assurance of the provision of high quality CAMHS assessments; including timely assessment of relevant mental health needs and neurodevelopmental difficulties
- To support and develop Oxleas' CAMHS provision of high-quality clinical formulation, risk assessment and evidence-based intervention plans
- To support effective and timely onwards referral, consultation, and joint working with regional specialist gender services
- To ensure that appropriate 'waiting well' support is in place, for those on waiting lists for either Oxleas CAMHS support or for access to a regional specialist gender service
- To ensure appropriate provision of training and ongoing professional development for Oxleas' CAMHS staff
- To ensure appropriate inter-professional and inter-agency partnership working is in place, including providing specialist clinical support around any risk and safeguarding issues, liaison with community and acute paediatrics and joint working with specialist neurodevelopmental services
- To undertake relevant audits, service evaluations and research projects, to inform and develop community CAMHS provision.
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
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
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to supporting children and young people with gender-related distress and gender-incongruence within CAMHS
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
- Knowledge of factors affecting delivery of clinical interventions across gender identity, cultural and other differences
- Advanced skills in working with several clients and systems together, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the systems in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes
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
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to supporting children and young people with gender-related distress and gender-incongruence within CAMHS
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
- Knowledge of factors affecting delivery of clinical interventions across gender identity, cultural and other differences
- Advanced skills in working with several clients and systems together, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the systems in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Either Park Crescent, Highpoint House or Stepping Stones
Greenwich (TBC)
SE18 3RZ
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
