Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Greenwich LDND team, encompassing the Clinical Lead role for Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes.
This post will form part of the leadership group within the LDND team, leading on and supporting the development of psychological therapies pathways and ensuring high standards of clinical care for young people with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions accessing the service. As the Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes Clinical lead the post will further embed the use of a clinical outcomes-led approach across Greenwich CAMHS, and taking forward the CYP-IAPT principles into Greenwich CAMHS services.
The post-holder will work closely with other CAMHS borough Outcomes leads and the Greenwich operational and clinical leads.Developing strong relationships with team managers and clinical leads to support clinical outcomes will be a key part of this role.
The role will involve leading on addressing issues affecting engagement and reporting. Direct clinical work and clinical supervision will also be a key components of the role.
Main duties of the job
This post is based in the multidisciplinary LDND team in Greenwich CAMHS. The team provides specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for children, young people and their families with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to co-occurring mental health difficulties. The LDND team works closely with education, social care and other agencies within the network to support young people.
The role provides senior clinical leadership, working closely with LDND leadership colleagues and operational management to support all aspects of multidisciplinary CAMHS work. The postholder has specific responsibility for psychological therapies and outcomes delivery, while also delivering direct clinical work and clinical supervision.
Greenwich CAMHS is the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich.
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
- To provide senior clinical psychology input to the Greenwich CAMHS LDND team including direct clinical work, clinical supervision, and clinical leadership
- To deliver highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions as a senior clinician within CAMHS, supporting on the development of clinical pathways and service developments as required.
- To provide highly specialist clinical supervision within the service to clinicians from a range of training backgrounds, including clinical psychology trainees
- To provide clinical leadership to formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment of a clients mental health need
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
- To lead, manage and plan the delivery of outcomes measurement and reporting across all teams in Greenwich CAMHS
- To lead on the operational and clinical use of outcomes databases in GreenwichCAMHS as an electronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHS outcomes lead to support database development and adaptation of processes where required.
- To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to clinicians for their utilisation of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- To provide specialist outcomes focused supervision to Assistant psychologists working within teams to support and improve the use of outcome measures, providing feedback within teams and in the assimilation of data to be fed-back through a variety of means and in different settings
- To lead on the assimilation and appropriate presentation of outcomes data, including report writing for presentation in a variety of forums
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide senior clinical psychology input to the Greenwich CAMHS LDND team including direct clinical work, clinical supervision, and clinical leadership
- To deliver highly specialist clinical assessments and interventions as a senior clinician within CAMHS, supporting on the development of clinical pathways and service developments as required.
- To provide highly specialist clinical supervision within the service to clinicians from a range of training backgrounds, including clinical psychology trainees
- To provide clinical leadership to formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment of a clients mental health need
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
- To lead, manage and plan the delivery of outcomes measurement and reporting across all teams in Greenwich CAMHS
- To lead on the operational and clinical use of outcomes databases in GreenwichCAMHS as an electronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHS outcomes lead to support database development and adaptation of processes where required.
- To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to clinicians for their utilisation of routine outcome measures in clinical practice.
- To provide specialist outcomes focused supervision to Assistant psychologists working within teams to support and improve the use of outcome measures, providing feedback within teams and in the assimilation of data to be fed-back through a variety of means and in different settings
- To lead on the assimilation and appropriate presentation of outcomes data, including report writing for presentation in a variety of forums
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology as accredited by the HCPC.
- Current Professional Registration
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision
Desirable
- Further training and CPD in research/audit
- Completion of further post-graduate training and practice in evidence-based psychological intervention for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorder and/or learning disability and co-morbid mental health problems.
- Completion of further training in specialist neurodevelopmental assessment (e.g. ADOS, ADI).
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification clinical experience (minimum 4 years) within multi-disciplinary and/or multi-agency services for children and young people
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of supervising APs / trainees, having completed the relevant supervisory training
- Experience of providing teaching and training to practitioners and other professional groups
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, and/or audit and service evaluation projects
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people presenting with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning disabilities, with co-morbid moderate-severe mental health difficulties, supporting high levels of risk
- Experience of supervising qualified clinical psychologists
- Experience of participation in recruitment
Other
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary and cross-borough services, contributing to effective service functioning and joint working
- Ability to think and act strategically and to oversee the continuing implementation of practice and system change
- Experience / Knowledge of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or counselling psychology as accredited by the HCPC.
- Current Professional Registration
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training including training in supervision
Desirable
- Further training and CPD in research/audit
- Completion of further post-graduate training and practice in evidence-based psychological intervention for children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorder and/or learning disability and co-morbid mental health problems.
- Completion of further training in specialist neurodevelopmental assessment (e.g. ADOS, ADI).
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification clinical experience (minimum 4 years) within multi-disciplinary and/or multi-agency services for children and young people
- Experience of undertaking leadership roles
- Experience of supervising APs / trainees, having completed the relevant supervisory training
- Experience of providing teaching and training to practitioners and other professional groups
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, and/or audit and service evaluation projects
Desirable
- Experience of working with young people presenting with neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning disabilities, with co-morbid moderate-severe mental health difficulties, supporting high levels of risk
- Experience of supervising qualified clinical psychologists
- Experience of participation in recruitment
Other
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within multi-disciplinary and cross-borough services, contributing to effective service functioning and joint working
- Ability to think and act strategically and to oversee the continuing implementation of practice and system change
- Experience / Knowledge of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity, including experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership
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).
