Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7065143-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bostall House
- Town
- Abbeywood
- Salary
- £67,950 - £78,028 pro rata pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/04/2025
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead of Bexley Mental Health Support Team
Band 8b
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available to join our dynamic and energetic service as Clinical Lead of Oxleas CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST) within the London Borough of Bexley.
Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government’s Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you will be responsible alongside the Team Manager for ensuring high quality and safe service delivery, supporting the team to provide a clinically safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to children, young people and families within a number of local primary and secondary education settings.
You will work in close partnership with education colleagues, local authority and partner agencies and will develop strong working relationships with senior clinical, professional and managerial leads within Oxleas CAMHS and the wider Trust.
The service has recently expanded and is developing as a service in its own right in Oxleas CAMHS. The Clinical Lead and Team Manager will be leading the team through this change to achieve its ambitious goals and continue to improve the MHST service in Bexley.
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’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Experience of strong clinical and leadership skills are essential for this role. You will also need to have excellent communication and management skills with a passion for early intervention mental health support for children, young people and families.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC.
- Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Completed training in clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to children and young people’s mental health, through formal qualification (post-graduate diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice in specialism.
- Completed CPD in clinical leadership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, including working within schools in CAMHS teams or equivalent.
- Experience of undertaking leadership responsibilities e.g. further supervision courses/training
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to qualified and non-qualified Psychologists, Psychological Professionals and clinicians from other disciplines.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical leadership.
- Advanced knowledge of the theory of relevant psychological practice/processes and their therapeutic application to working with children and adolescents.
- Ability and skills to work effectively within an MDT, including clinical and management leadership joint working, contributing to effective team functioning.
Desirable criteria
- Ability and skills in developing effective clinical pathways that include evidence-based psychological care of children and young people.
- To plan delivery of psychology and psychological services to the client group and carers, involving internal and external stakeholders.
- Advanced skills in clinical supervision.
- Advanced skills in working within complex systems, managing the highly complex relationships within and between parts of the system in ways which maximise the potential for good outcomes.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nidhi Dholakia-Wellens
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 260 5200
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