Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
- Job ref
- 277-8098779-CYP-A
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House
- Town
- Bromley
- Salary
- £33,262 - £36,027 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
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 is focused upon supporting data collection processes for Children and Young Peoples outcomes, including clinical outcome monitoring and service-user satisfaction. Alongside the primary outcomes focused role, there are some opportunities for clinical work and to support service development under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
Main duties of the job
Bromley CAMHS is a friendly, award winning and thriving team, regarded as an accessible and effective service.
The role involves supporting clinical staff in using and interpreting routine outcomes measures, analysing data, producing reports and training staff in outcome measures. Having good IT skills and knowledge of Excel and SPSS would be an advantage. Excellent communication skills are necessary to be able to liaise and support clinical staff and teams, and an interest in working with children and young people is essential. Alongside the primary outcomes duties, there will be some discrete opportunities to support assessments for young people in the service, support the running of therapeutic groups and offering psychoeducation / targeted time limited treatment in a small number of cases under the close supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist. The post will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist and the successful candidate will also report to the local Outcomes Lead.
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
Please see attached job description.
- Supporting clinical staff in using and interpreting routine outcomes measures, analysing data, producing reports and training staff in outcome measures.
- Disseminating best practice knowledge and guidance in relation to use of outcomes measures and attending all outcome related meetings working closely alongside the local outcomes leads and colleagues.
- To utilise strong IT skills and knowledge of Excel and SPSS and other relevant data systems to analyse and report on data in an accessible and concise manner.
- Excellent communication skills are necessary to be able to liaise and support clinical staff and teams, and an interest in working with children and young people is essential.
- 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 frequently exercise mental effort on a daily basis during triage and assessment.
- To convey unwelcome or unpleasant news to service users and families in an empathetic and sensitive manner
- To effectively manage frequent distressing or emotional circumstances, accessing support when required.
- To be able to cope with occasional, potential stressful, upsetting or emotional situations in an empathetic manner, such as referrals which may have information about traumatic childhood experiences and abuse.
- 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An honours degree in psychology. Entitlement to graduate basis for registration of the British Psychological 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
- Emily Davies
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 315 4430
- Additional information
Tanya Martin
Generic Team Manager
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