Camhs Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to join our dynamic and energetic CAMHS services as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist ( Band 8a ) within the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, located at our clinic base near to Bromley South train station.
The Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing rapid assessment, crisis intervention, and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 11 -18 years and their families who are experiencing acute and complex mental health difficulties. The role provides opportunities for crisis intervention, brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies.
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 builds resilience in community relationships.
Oxleas are committed to offering high quality training and CPD opportunities . There will be an opportunity for the successful candidate to complete team AMBIT training, a trauma focused training in an evidence-based approach such as TF-CBT or EMDR, or Mentalisation Based Therapy for Adolescents, depending on prior experience and service needs.
We recognise that some candidates may not have previous experience of working within CAMHS - we do not see this as a barrier to your application and encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds /experiences.
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.
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
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 for 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.