Clinical Psychologist RBG Children Services Preceptorship

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the London Borough of Greenwich. We are looking for a highly skilled, motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist to join the enthusiastic and dynamic Integrated Clinical Team.
This is an exciting role for a Clinical Psychologist to join a clinical service within Children’s Services in Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG). The post offers the opportunity to combine direct clinical work with children and families, supervision, training and consultation to support teams across children’s services in working with children, young people and their families, building the capability of the workforce in supporting children with complex social, emotional and mental health needs.
Psychological professions are highly valued in within Oxleas, and the successful candidate can expect an inclusive and supportive context within which to develop your career and contribute to the development of our CAMHS offer.
The successful candidate will deliver high quality, evidence based, psychological services to children, young people and their families, carers and professional networks in keeping with iThrive principles.
Our service sits within culturally diverse Greenwich and offers a rich and stimulating environment from where to work. There is very good public transport links with buses and trains.
The attached preceptorship criteria document outlines the process for promotion to 8a, 18 months to 2 years after qualifying as a band 7.
The post holder will provide mental health services to children, young people and families in the borough who are experiencing mental health, emotional, or behavioural difficulties, who are known to Children’s Services.
The post holder will also use the elements and concepts of the Greenwich Practice Framework to achieve positive change for children, young people and their families. The Greenwich Practice Framework was developed in partnership with staff at all levels and brings together a range of complementary and evidence-led concepts drawn from Systemic and Compassionate Mind theory and practice into the domains of individual, family, contextual and wider systems.
Band 7 job overview
Overview of the Post
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Band 8a Overview
The role includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising the clinical work of trainee clinical psychologists and other professionals; and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the 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
To deliver clinical input across Children’s Services by offering specialist support to children, young people and their families.
To provide specialist psychologically-informed CAMHS 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, 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 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 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 provide consultation and training to junior colleagues, local authority colleagues and carers.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all CYP of the service, across settings and agencies.
To contribute to the development of evidence-based models of assessment, treatment, and specialist interagency care.
To support the delivery of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and related approaches across Children’s Services, supporting the development of both clinical and non-clinical staff in CFT-informed practice.
To support local authority colleagues with the Children’s Service Practice Framework, including Compassion-Focused and Systemic practice.
To provide reflective consideration of different options for working with children, young people and families.
To support colleagues to think about the network around the child and what may be the most appropriate support to address their need.
To contribute to research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service, including outcomes reporting.
To work in close collaboration with other Children’s Services colleagues to fulfil and further develop the multi-disciplinary offer to children and families.
To develop strong joint working relationships and practices across Children’s Services and Oxleas CAMHS, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organization.
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 provide highly specialist consultation, supervision advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self harm, violence, trauma, suicide risk, criminal offending behaviour, sexualised behaviour, and mental health problems of parents.
To work in accordance with CAMHS and team objectives by adhering to Trust and Directorate policies, including risk assessment in all work, ensuring care plans are in place, recording up to date, attending and contributing a systemic view in case discussion and team meetings.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including CYP-IAPT principles.
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

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