We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS and involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties. The post holder will have the opportunity to take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a CBT pathway or treatment pathway for PTSD. 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 the following: 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 hold a key role as a senior psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline. There are opportunities for supervision of Band 7 colleagues, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. As a senior psychologist, there are possibilities for service development and quality improvement work.
The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions.
The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development.
Greenwich CAMHS has close relationships with the wider specialist CAMHS, our cross-borough crisis team for young people, our DBT service and the wider South London Partnership.
We have a large, well-established and supportive Clinical Psychology department that benefits from excellent links with the South Thames (Salomon’s) Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities. As Clinical Psychologists, we are well integrated in the multi-disciplinary teams across the service with strong and positive inter-disciplinary relationships.
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
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- We Listen
- We Care
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Melissa Aitken Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: melissa.aitken@nhs.net Telephone number: 0203 260 5211
Dr Clare Chivers, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
020 3260 5211
