Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic clinical or counselling psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Greenwich within our adolescent team.

The role provides opportunities for crisis intervention, brief and long-term therapeutic work. The team also provides teaching and in-reach consultation to Greenwich Social Care and the Youth Offending Service. There are also other opportunities for working alongside our partner agencies. The team works within an Adaptive Mentalization based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) a systemic framework providing a team approach for working with the client, the team, the family and professional networks. In addition to the team’s links with our partner agencies part of the post involves having a lead self-harm role delivering consultation and training to external agencies and conducting audit.

As a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in Greenwich CAMHS you will have a balanced job plan which meets both the needs of the service and your own developmental needs and interests. We have guaranteed funding for further training attached to the post to include either EMDR, MBT-A or another evidence-based therapy training required by the service. Specialist supervision will be available to support practice during and after training.

Greenwich Service Overview

Greenwich CAMHS is part of Oxleas C&Y.P Directorate. The Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. The Trust has consistently achieved high ratings in quality assessments, patient and staff surveys with a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

Greenwich CAMHS service is large and comprises of the following teams:

• Adolescent Team including the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team
• Mental Health in Schools Team
• Early Intervention Schools Team
• Generic Team
• Looked After Children and Edge of Care Team
• Learning Disabilities & Neurodevelopmental Team

Greenwich CAMHS service opening hours prior to COVID were between the hours of 8am and 7pm. We are currently working towards returning to these hours post pandemic.

Psychology Discipline

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. CPD opportunities linked to PDR and funded by Psychological Therapies Department.

Young Peoples Directorate Overview

Greenwich CAMHS is part of the Children & Young Peoples Directorate. The services within this directorate include: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services and Specialist Children Services

Please see attached Job Descriptionfor further information

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

Greenwich CAMHS and partner agencies are currently in the process of aligning with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based interventions for the children and young people of Greenwich. The Greenwich adolescent team is a multidisciplinary team who work at the interface between tier 3 and tier 4 providing rapid assessment, crisis intervention, assertive outreach, and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 12 -18 years and their families who present with severe and complex mental health problems.

Please see attached Job Description for further information