Job summaryJob summaryGreenwich CAMHS are pleased to offer a band 7-8a preceptorship post within the Adolescent Team with guaranteed funding for further training. Please see attached information regarding preceptorships. We welcome applications from trainees qualifying later this year and current Band 7 colleagues wishing to expand their experience.Role OpportunitiesRobust personalised induction plan, which identifies your transferrable skills and where development to adjust to your new role may be helpful. The successful applicant can access in-house and external CAMHS specific training. We recognise that you may not have previous experience of working within CAMHS. This should not be seen as a barrier to you considering joining our service.The post-holder will also be part of a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS that offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development.Oxleas provides an internal CPD programme for psychological therapists for the first two years post qualification and attendance at this is prioritised in job plans.Furthermore, 18 months to 2 years after qualifying as a band 7, you will be eligible for promotion to band 8a via the preceptorship scheme, provided you have met the attached competences.Main duties of the jobTo provide a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service to CAMHS clients across all sectors of care, providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation and to other non-professional carers, working within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.Please see attached Job Description for further informationAbout usOxleas 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 KindWe'reWe ListenWe CareJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesClinical:To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options; taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.Teaching, training, and supervisionTo receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of practitioner (clinical / counselling) psychology over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work, as appropriate.To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant/graduate psychologists and, as appropriate, to contribute to the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists.To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of relevant healthcare staff, as appropriate.To contribute to external and internal training programmes within CAMHSPerson SpecificationEssentialEssentialDoctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalentExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settingsSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and managementExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life span presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severityDesirableCAMHS clinical experienceExperience of the application of practitioner psychology in different cultural contextsKnowledge of the theory of attachment and developmental traumaKnowledge and SkillsEssentialExperience of other audit or service development work.Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertiseExperience of CYP IAPTDesirableExperience of working with young peopleExperience of audit or service developementYears of experienceExperienceEssentialSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessmentDesirableSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessmentDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameOxleas NHS Foundation TrustAddressHighpoint HouseShooters HillLondonSE18 3RZEmployer's websitehttp://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)