Preceptorship Clinical /Counselling Psychologist

at  Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Greenwich CAMHS are pleased to offer a band 7-8a preceptorship post with guaranteed funding for further training. We welcome applications from trainees qualifying later this year and current Band 7 colleagues wishing to expand their experience.
Role Opportunities
This post within Greenwich CAMHS provides the opportunity to be part of a large CAMHS service, providing support to families and young people across a range of care sectors. The post is part of a multidisciplinary team working with young people requiring assessment and intervention for a range of complex metal health needs.
There is a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS which offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. Early identification of areas for development and training are key in the preceptorship process and 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, 18 months to 2 years after qualifying as a band 7.
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. The post holder will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team which has close links with a wide range of agencies.
Band 8 Overview
This post is based in the experienced and established Greenwich CAMHS. This is a multidisciplinary service which offers care across a range of sectors.
The role includes the following: providing a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service for children, young people and their families up to 18 years old; 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 Fair
We Listen
We Care
Key Task and Responsibilities

Please refer the Job description for details