Main area Children & Young People Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm) Job ref 277-7495131-CYP
Employer Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Site Stepping Stones House Town Bromley Salary £61,631 - £68,623 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
We are seeking an outstanding candidate to join our CAMHS services as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist within our Adolescent Team.
The Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 11-18 years and their families. The young people we meet experience significant and acute mental ill health, including those who may be at risk of inpatient admission, and require a rapid response, intensive intervention, crisis and risk management. The postholder will provide brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies and supervision of junior staff. The successful candidate will utilise research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.
Bromley CAMHS are passionate about working with children, young people and their families, and are dedicated to providing high-quality and caring community mental healthcare services that improve outcomes and build resilience in community relationships.
The successful applicant will join a vibrant & experienced multi-disciplinary CAMHS team providing a variety of evidence-based interventions for children & young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. There is a culture of joint, cross-discipline working in the team, which provides an environment for learning and development in addition to formal CPD opportunities.
Main duties of the job
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.
Bromley 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.
Working for our 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 Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job Description is attached. Main responsibilities include:
* Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing 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 Adolescent 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.
Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly 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. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Woman’s Network's.
The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued and offer benefits including:
* Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions 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)
Benefits include a cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare. Staff are able to access wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) & vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.
We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to providing all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
* HCPC registration
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
* Other relevant qualification (eg MSc, Post Grad diploma) or pre-qualification training/qualification in research or applied psychology
* Training in specialist therapy relevant to post
* Training in supervision (beyond basic induction training)
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
* Experience of working as an 8a
* Experience of supervising
* Experience of delivering teaching/training
* Experience of clinical leadership of an aspect of a service
Knowledge & Skills
* Appropriate skills and knowledge of risk assessment/management in the client group
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
* Demonstrates knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
* Demonstrates knowledge of wider policy context relevant to post
* Possesses transferable skills from other posts (not already scored) which are relevant to the post
* Demonstrates awareness of power and diversity issues
* Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised
* Ability to use outcome measures and integrate these meaningfully into therapy.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Anna Strauss
Job title Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team Manager
Email address anna.strauss@nhs.net
Telephone number 0208 315 4430
Additional information
Dr Nicole Krokidis, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, 0208 315 4430
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