Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist London, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity to join Greenwich CAMHS as we seek to appoint a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to our multidisciplinary LAC/Edge of Care/Adoption team. Offering highly specialist psychology assessment and treatment to children/young people with a range of mental health difficulties who are under a Child in Need or Child Protection plan, adopted, in foster care or living in special guardianship arrangements.
Often the children young people referred have experienced significant adversity, maltreatment and trauma. The role entails providing supervision to band 7 Clinical Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists, advice and consultation to the MDT as well as to social care and other professional colleagues in partner agencies.
Role Opportunities
Robust personalised induction plan, which identifies your transferrable skills and where development to adjust to your new role may be helpful.
All applicants are able to access in house and external CAMHS specific training as well as CPD provided and supported by Psychological Therapies (see below for more details).
Psychology Discipline Opportunities
We have ring fenced funding in the following psychological therapies which is attached to this post. Guaranteed access to Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy training with the view to develop your practicum to the level needed to supervise in this model.
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who has a passion for working with looked after children and with families who are open to Children’s Services. The post holder will contribute to initial assessment clinics, provide evidence based psychological therapies and undertake goal-based case management for a proportion of cases. The role also entails undertaking risk assessments and offering consultations to other professionals.
Greenwich Service Overview
Greenwich CAMHS service is large and comprises of the following teams:
- Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team
- Mental Health in Schools Team
- Early Intervention Schools Team
- Generic Team
- Looked After Children, Edge of Care, Adoption Team
- Learning Disabilities & Neurodevelopmental Team
Our service sits within culturally diverse Greenwich and offers a rich and stimulating environment from where to work. There is a supportive management structure and regular clinical supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development.
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
The post-holder will also be part of a large psychology team across the service that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. There are opportunities for CPD linked to professional development review (PDR) and funded by the Psychological Therapies Department.
We welcome applications from qualified clinical psychologists with HCPC registration.
