Principal Clinical Psychologist Greenwich CAMHS LDND Team | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,396 - £80,837 pro rata inc |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 December 2025 |
| Location: | Greenwich, SE18 3RZ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7642869/277-7642869-CYP |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Greenwich LDND team, encompassing the Clinical Lead role for Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes.
This post will form part of the leadership group within the LDND team, leading on and supporting the development of psychological therapies pathways and ensuring high standards of clinical care for young people with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions accessing the service. As the Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes Clinical lead the post will further embedthe useof a clinical outcomes-led approach across Greenwich CAMHS, and takingforwardtheCYP-IAPTprinciplesintoGreenwichCAMHSservices.
Thepost-holder will work closely with other CAMHS borough Outcomes leads and the Greenwich operational and clinical leads. Developingstrongrelationshipswithteammanagersandclinicalleadstosupportclinicaloutcomeswillbeakeypartofthisrole.
The role will involve leading on addressing issues affecting engagement and reporting.Direct clinical work and clinical supervision will also be a key components of the role.
This post is based in the multidisciplinary LDND team in Greenwich CAMHS. The team provides specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for children, young people and their families with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to co-occurring mental health difficulties. The LDND team works closely with education, social care and other agencies within the network to support young people.
The role provides senior clinical leadership, working closely with LDND leadership colleagues and operational management to support all aspects of multidisciplinary CAMHS work. The postholder has specific responsibility for psychological therapies and outcomes delivery, while also delivering direct clinical work and clinical supervision.
Greenwich CAMHS is the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich.
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
• To provide senior clinical psychology input to the Greenwich CAMHS LDND team including direct clinical work, clinical supervision, and clinical leadership
• To deliverhighly specialist clinical assessments andinterventions asa seniorclinicianwithinCAMHS,supportingon the development ofclinicalpathwaysandservicedevelopments asrequired.
• To provide highly specialist clinical supervision within the service to clinicians from a range of training backgrounds, including clinical psychology trainees
• To provide clinical leadership to formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment of a clients mental health need
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions forindividuals,carers,familiesandgroups,withinandacrossteamsemployedindividually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulationsdrawingupondifferentexplanatorymodels
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and toprovide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessmentandriskmanagement
• To lead, manage and plan the delivery of outcomes measurement and reportingacrossallteams inGreenwich CAMHS
• To lead on the operational and clinical use of outcomes databases in Greenwich CAMHS as anelectronic outcome monitoring system, liaising/collaborating with the CAMHSoutcomes lead to support database development and adaptation of processes whererequired.
• To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to clinicians for theirutilisationofroutineoutcomemeasures inclinicalpractice.
• To provide specialist outcomes focused supervision to Assistant psychologistsworking within teams to support and improve the use of outcome measures,providing feedback within teams and in the assimilation of data to be fed-backthroughavariety ofmeans andindifferentsettings
• Toleadontheassimilationandappropriatepresentationofoutcomesdata,includingreportwritingforpresentation inavarietyofforums
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025
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