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, and can discuss other leadership options aligning with their interests.
The post holder 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. Duties also include supervised training of trainees and junior staff, and consultative work with non-psychologist colleagues.
Responsibilities
* Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Greenwich CAMHS Generic Team, including highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
* Offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, and providing supervision to clinical psychologists, psychological therapists and trainees.
* Providing initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the team.
* Offering supervision to more junior staff.
* Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
* Utilising research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Diversity and Inclusion
Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly for BAME staff, disabled staff and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding, and has developed resources and several staff networks, including BAMEx, LGBTQ+, Disability, Mental Health Staff and Women's Network.
Benefits
* Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pension scheme (life assurance) and leave package
* Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
* Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)
* Cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare, wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) and vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.
* Dedicated time to participate and lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025.
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