Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist and Your Choice Clinical Lead | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE18 6HQ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6202735/277-6147603-CYP-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinical psychologist to join an NHS clinical service integrated within Children’s Services in Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG), as the clinical lead for Your Choice delivery locally. The post offers the opportunity to combine leadership, supervision and training for the Your Choice programme, with consultation / support to teams across children’s services and direct clinical work with children and families as part of an integrated clinical team.
Your Choice is a London-wide £10 million, 3-year programme that at its core seeks to reinterpret the use of CBT principles within current best practice in violence-reduction and related partnership approaches to effectively supporting children affected by extra-familial violence and related harms. The Your Choice clinical lead in Greenwich will contribute to training for social care practitioners based upon CBT techniques for working therapeutically with children and young people experiencing emotional and behavioural conditions associated with the use of violence. The role entails providing ongoing supervision / coordinating supervision from within the integrated clinical team, to enhance the skills of Your Choice trained practitioners, who build therapeutic relationships with children and young people and with the overall aim of increasing their well-being and safety.
This is an opportunity to take up a clinical leadership role, engaging with the Your Choice programme and community of practice to ensure that information regarding the Your Choice programme locally is fed back to the central team and evaluators.
The post holder will also contribute to therapeutic provision within Children Services as part of an integrated clinical team and will offer a range of individual, parent and family, evidence-based interventions.
The Integrated Clinical Team adopts the elements and concepts of the Greenwich Practice Framework to achieve positive change for children, young people and their families. The Greenwich Practice Framework was developed in partnership with staff at all levels and brings together a range of complementary and evidence-led concepts drawn from Systemic and Compassionate Mind theory and practice into the domains of individual, family, contextual and wider systems using areas of Mattering, Doing, Reflection and Compassion.
This post provides opportunities to supervise junior CAMHS clinicians and trainees.
There will also be opportunities to utilise research skills for audit, quality improvement, policy and service development within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will share their time between offering direct work, consultation, training and service development.
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
• To provide training and clinical supervision (group and individual) to Your Choice practitioners across RBG Children’s Services.
• To coordinate the training and supervision to Your Choice practitioners, supporting CAMHS colleagues in delivering aspects of this work as required.
• To provide “live supervision” as appropriate to ensure that practice is observed (either directly or indirectly), reflected on and fed back to Your Choice practitioners to review and maintain quality of practice.
• To support Your Choice practitioners in their continued learning and application of cognitive behavioural theory formulation and techniques in their day to day practice.
• To support Your Choice practitioners to explore their own personal and emotional reactions to their work.
• To engage with Your Choice SPOC and community of practice to ensure that information regarding the Your Choice programme is fed back to the Central team and evaluators.
• To deliver clinical input across Children’s Services by offering specialist support to children, young people and families.
• To provide specialist psychologically-informed CAMHS assessments of clients referred to the team 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 client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s 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 contribute to the development of evidence-based models of assessment, treatment, and specialist interagency care.
• 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 consultation and training to junior colleagues, local authority colleagues and carers. To support colleagues to think about the network around the child and what may be the most appropriate support to address their need.
• To contribute directly and psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all CYP of the service, across settings and agencies.
• To provide reflective consideration of different options for working with children, young people and families.
• To contribute to research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service, including outcomes reporting.
• To work in close collaboration with other Children’s Services colleagues to fulfil and further develop the multi-disciplinary offer to children and families.
• To develop strong joint working relationships and practices across Children’s Services and Oxleas CAMHS, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organization.
• 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 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.
• To contribute to overall service delivery and development as required.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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