Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-7760841-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bostal House
- Town
- Abbeywood
- Salary
- £70,396 - £80,837 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/02/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/03/2026
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist & MHST Clinical Lead
Band 8b
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic, award-winning service as Clinical Lead of Greenwich CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National joint initiative with schools, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people (CYP) in response to the government’s Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. In NHSE’s published priorities for CYP mental health, it outlines that all schools have access to Mental Health Support Teams by 2029/2030.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you will be responsible for supporting the team to provide a clinically safe and responsive mental health and wellbeing service to CYP and families within several local primary and secondary education settings.
You will work in close partnership with partner agencies as well as having an outward facing role of liaison and relationship building with our local and National MHST colleagues. Following recent expansion, an Oxleas CAMHS MHST management team has been developed which the postholder will be part of.
Experience of strong clinical and leadership skills are essential for this role. You will also need to have excellent communication and management skills with a passion for early intervention mental health support for CYP and families.
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
This post provides excellent CPD opportunities, and the post holder will be part of an active and welcoming psychology group in Oxleas CAMHS which provides regular development opportunities throughout the year.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate Doctoral level training and qualification in Clinical Psychology, as accredited by the BPS and recognised by HCPC.
- Professional registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Further training in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to children and young people’s mental health, through formal qualification (post-graduate diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice in specialism.
- Completed training in clinical supervision.
- Completed CPD in clinical leadership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist in Child and Adolescent Mental Health services, including working within schools in CAMHS teams or equivalent.
- Experience of undertaking leadership responsibilities
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people with a wide range of psychological needs, across the range of severity
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to qualified and non-qualified Psychologists, Psychological Professionals and clinicians from other disciplines.
- Experience that supports working within diverse local communities.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, quality improvement and/or audit and service evaluation projects.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical leadership.
- Advanced theoretical knowledge of child and adolescent mental health and the evidence base for relevant interventions.
- Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care, including health inequalities affecting children and their families.
- Knowledge of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches/models in assessment and treatment relevant to working within a school context.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nidhi Dholakia-Wellens
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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