Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 277-6772467-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Stones House
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Clinical Psychologist
Band 4
Job overview
To help support the data collection processes for Children and Young Peoples IAPT (CYP-IAPT) within a multi-disciplinary CAMHS service. To assist in clinically related administration, completion of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work. There will also be opportunities to undertake clinical work under supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist and support the psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake protocol based psychological assessment of young people applying psychological theory, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To assist in the formulation of young people’s needs, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
- To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects.
- To work with other staff to contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.
- To undertake data collection, data inputting, analysis and the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes
- To create graphs, presentations or charts to collage or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.
- To assist in producing visual material or user friendly information for access to services within Bromley.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
This post will require the applicant to:
- To undertake protocol based psychological assessment of client applying psychological theory, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
- To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects.
- To work with other staff to assess or support service and contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.
- To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To be able to cope with occasional, potential stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner, such as referrals or case discussions which may have information about traumatic childhood experiences and abuse.
- To understand and work within the CYP IAPT framework.
Research:
- To undertake data collection, data inputting, analysis and the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes
- To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
- To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To support clinical staff and managers with regards to the collection and recording of routine data through training and regular attendance at team meetings.
- To provide monthly reports of multi-disciplinary clinical activity as requested by the supervising clinical psychologist and team manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An honours degree in psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate experience in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Team.
- Experience of contributing to audit and service evaluation in a CAMHS setting
- Experience of using counselling or therapy skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of facilitating therapy groups.
- Experience of neuropsychological assessments and screening/risk assessing referrals
- Experience of working with young people/children
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of young people, people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking research, audit and/or service evaluation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anna Strauss
- Job title
- Adolescent Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 315 4430
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