The closing date is 10 April 2025
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 a year pa inc
Job summary
Greenwich CAMHS is pleased to offer two full time Band 7-8a preceptorship posts within the Looked After Children/Edge of Care/Adoption Team.
The Greenwich CAMHS LAC/EOC/Adoption Team is a team for children in the care of the local authority, adopted children, children on special guardianships or kinship arrangements, and children on child in need, or child protection plans that may also be going through the legal process e.g. care proceedings. We work with the child or young person, parents, carers and wider system/network as well as offering consultation to children’s social workers and fostering social workers.
Greenwich CAMHS has a large psychology teams CAMHS which offers excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. There are established links with psychology across the three boroughs with joint psychology CPD events. The preceptorship roles come with allocated funding to access training identified through a Personal Development Plan.
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a clinical psychologist to join the team who has a passion for working with children in care and with families who are open to childrens services. We are looking for a psychologist who is trauma informed in their practice and can find creative ways of engaging the young people and families we work with. The post holder will contribute to initial assessments, provide evidence based psychological therapies and undertake goal-based case management.They will contribute psychological thinking to this busy, friendly multi-disciplinary service and will supervise the clinical work of assistant psychologists, trainees and other professionals.They will be encouraged to develop and lead on creative service development initiatives which meet the needs of the population. Greenwich CAMHS is in the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive, needs based mental health interventions for children and young people in Greenwich.
Oxleas provides an internal CPD programme for psychological therapists for the first two years post qualification.The postholder will be supported to attend supervisor training at Salomons Clinical Psychology training programme and will contribute to placements for clinical psychology trainees. They are also guaranteed access to train in a specialist training relevant to the client group (e.g. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, EMDR) and needs of the team within their first two years in post as well as to specialist supervision in the approach.
We welcome applications from newly qualified psychologists and those who may be awaiting confirmation of their doctorate qualification and HCPC registration due to delays in submitting their thesis.
Please see the attached Job Description for detailed information about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level in training training in Psychology Current HCPC registration
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained intense concentration.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Experience
Essential
- 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. Some experience of working with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life span presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching training and /supervision.
- Camhs clinical experience.
- Experience of the application of practitioner psychology in different cultural contexts.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This 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 Sponsorship
Applications 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 Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).