Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Psychology Discipline Opportunities The post-holder will be part of a large psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS. We offer excellent support, supervision, and opportunities for continued professional development. There are also established links within psychology across the three Oxleas boroughs with quarterly psychology CPD events. The team offers placements for trainee clinical psychologists and the post holder will have opportunities to supervise psychology colleagues. Management Responsibilities To ensure that teams across Greenwich have sufficient information and training to accurately identify young people who need to be assessed within the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) pathway and know how to make appropriate referrals to the EIP pathway To provide professional, clinical supervision to less senior clinical psychologists, CAMHS practitioners, assistants and trainees. To support supervisees in professional development including accreditation where applicable and in agreement
with the organisation. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish, by working to create an inclusive and supportive environment. To contribute to developing strong joint working relationships and practices across Greenwich CAMHS and with the adult EIP teams, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organisation Leadership To support a psychologically informed framework for the adolescent team and EIP pathway. To contribute to ensuring the EIP pathway and Greenwich adolescent teams ability to deliver accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To create an inclusive and supportive environment with equal access to services for young people and carers from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds experiencing FEP. This would include establishing links with community organisations in line with
NICE guidance for Management of Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Children and Young People. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients, focused on working with FEP and unusual experiences. To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans, focused on working with FEP and Unusual Experiences To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals. To provide leadership to practitioners and other professionals in the service. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. To manage the workloads of clinical psychologists, trainee and assistant psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. Clinical
To plan, organise and ensure the delivery of effective clinical work across Greenwich CAMHS in relation to identifying and assessing young people with suspected First Episode Psychosis. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients within the EIP pathway and others in the Adolescent Team and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To undertake complex clinical work with young people with First Episode Psychosis To hold a caseload and provide highly specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people, and to provide clinical supervision and consultation in relation to complex casework. To support the Greenwich Adolescent Team as an AMBIT-informed team (Adaptive Mentalisation Based Clinical Treatment) and contribute to training and CPD in relation to AMBIT. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.