Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-8099354-CYP-A
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £33,262 - £36,027 pro rata pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist (A&E Audit)
Band 4
Job overview
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduate who is keen to gain experience in order to progress towards applied training in clinical psychology. The post has a focus of assisting in the delivery of an audit and evaluation of young people who present to A & E in a crisis in the Bromley Borough. The postholder will assist in clinically related administration, completion of audits, collection and analysis of data and statistics, completion of audit/ evaluation and/or research projects, presentation development, teaching and project work under the close supervision of a Clinical Psychologist and working closely with the local Lead Consultant Psychologist.
Main duties of the job
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
- To assist in data collection, analysis and interpretation.
- To support project work, working to deadlines.
- To have a high level of proficiency in IT (including Excel and Powerpoint)
- To follow Oxleas trust policy and protocol in relation to Evaluation, Audit and Research
- To make theory and practice links in regard to the project work, linking to research and evidence-based practice or national guidance
- To frequently exercise mental effort daily
- To create graphs, presentations or charts to summarise data to ensure accessible dissemination of the project to a variety of multi-agency professional audiences.
- To work closely with supervisor and lead consultant clinical psychologist.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An honours degree in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychology Society
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Team
- Experience of contributing to audit and service evaluation in a CAMHS setting
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate experience in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to manage workload and work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to manage emotional circumstances and distressed states of young people.
- Ability to engage in the supervision process as indicated by the BPS
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
- Dr Emily Davies
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 315 4430
- Additional information
Dr Nicole Krokidis
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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