Preceptorship Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Band 7-8a preceptorship post with funding for further training. Applications welcome from trainees qualifying this year & current B7’s wishing to expand their experience.
Greenwich CAMHS provides an opportunity to be part of a large CAMHS service, providing support to families & young people across a range of care sectors. The post is part of a multidisciplinary team working with young people requiring assessment & intervention for a range of complex mental health needs.
There is a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS which offers excellent support, supervision & opportunities for continued professional development. Early identification of areas for development & training are key in the preceptorship process & this role comes with allocated funding to access training identified through a Personal Development Plan.
The attached preceptorship criteria document outlines the process for promotion to 8a, 18mths to 2 years after qualifying as a B7. The document sets out the competencies to be met & how a personal development plan supports this progression.
To provide a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service to CAMHS clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment & therapy at the same time as offering advice & consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within & outside the organisation & to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies & procedures.
To provide a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service to CAMHS clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
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

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