Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-7276434-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highpoint House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
The post holder will provide a clinical psychology service to clients within the Greenwich Adolescent team providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment.
The multi-disciplinary team works within an Adaptive Mentalization based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) framework providing a team approach for working with the client, the team, the family and professional networks. This approach supports the work of the team with young people who present with a range of complex mental health needs.
The post holder will provide supervision to trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, and qualified clinical psychologists, as well as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care across a range of disciplines. There will be opportunities to take up leadership responsibilities around an area of clinical care or pathway and/or service development.
The post-holder will be part of a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS. We offer excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. There are established links with psychology across the three Oxleas boroughs with joint psychology CPD events. There will be opportunities for individual training, for example MBT-A, EMDR and CFT.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the CAMH service.
- Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment.
- Supervising trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists qualified clinical psychologists, and disciplines outside of psychology when appropriate.
- Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
- Working autonomously within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- Utilising research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Working for our organisation
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
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
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- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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 and other relevant issues, 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 highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options 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 contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.
- 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 act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
- To provide clinical supervision and professional guidance to qualified psychologists, assistant psychologists, psychology trainees and non-psychology disciplines.
- To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
- To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of clinical psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life span presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
Desirable criteria
- CAMHS clinical experience
- Experience of the application of practitioner psychology in different cultural contexts
- Knowledge of the theory of attachment and developmental trauma
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of other audit or service development work.
- Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertise
- Experience of CYP IAPT
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with young people
- Experience of audit or service developement
- Years of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment
Desirable criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Ibuakah
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3260 5211
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Vanessa Ibuakah - Greenwich CAMHS Adolescent Team Manager
or
Dr Clare Chivers - Consultant Clinical PsychologistTelephone: Greenwich CAMHS – 020 3260 5211
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