Job overview

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for neurodiverse young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Team in Greenwich CAMHS. The post involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties, who also have a diagnosis of Autism, ADHD or a Learning Disability. There is a strong psychological therapies presence in the team, with multiple Clinical Psychologists, an Assistant Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Art Therapist and Family Therapist. Psychology offers a range of evidenced based therapies, such as CBT, CFT, Narrative Therapy and EMDR within the team, embedded within a neuro-affirmative approach. The post holder will also have opportunities to develop skills in NVR.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have the opportunity to take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a treatment pathway, or service improvement. These are just two examples and there will be scope to discuss other leadership options aligning with the post-holder’s interests. Other aspects of the role include providing specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising trainee clinical psychologists and qualified psychologists; offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation; and utilising research skills for audit, service development and research projects within the service. In addition, the postholder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.  

The post‑holder will be part of a large and well‑established psychology team. We offer excellent support, regular supervision, and CPD opportunities. There are established links with psychology across the three Oxleas boroughs including shared professional development events.

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 Fair
• We Listen
• We Care