Principal Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS Gender Specialist Lead | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £70,396 - £80,837 pro rata pa inc |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Greenwich (TBC), SE18 3RZ |
| Cwmni: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7308589/277-7308589-CYP |
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This is an exciting opportunity to take up a new fixed term role as Principal Clinical Psychologist,providing specialist clinical leadership within and across Oxleas’ CAMHS clinical pathways and services, to ensure high quality care is provided to children and young people experiencing gender-related distress and gender incongruence; aligned with the recommendations of the Cass Review and NHS England guidance.This role will lead work toembed previous training and support further development of knowledge and skills for CAMHS staff, in line with the recommendations of the Cass review. The Gender Specialist Lead role would also coordinate the triage and screening of referrals, both internally and onwards to national specialist services.
The postholder will support leadership projects, contribute to service development, quality improvement and research, audit and evaluation across the service. The successful candidate will be supported with ongoing continuing professional development opportunities and relevant training as required.
For children and young people experiencing gender-related distress and incongruence:
• To support and provide assurance of the provision of high quality CAMHS assessments; including timely assessment of relevant mental health needs and neurodevelopmental difficulties
• To support and develop Oxleas’ CAMHS provision of high-quality clinical formulation, risk assessment and evidence-based intervention plans
• To support effective and timely onwards referral, consultation, and joint working with regional specialist gender services
• To ensure that appropriate ‘waiting well’ support is in place, for those on waiting lists for either Oxleas CAMHS support or for access to a regional specialist gender service
• To ensure appropriate provision of training and ongoing professional development for Oxleas’ CAMHS staff
• To ensure appropriate inter-professional and inter-agency partnership working is in place, including providing specialist clinical support around any risk and safeguarding issues, liaison with community and acute paediatrics and joint working with specialist neurodevelopmental services
• To undertake relevant audits, service evaluations and research projects, to inform and develop community CAMHS provision.
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
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025
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