Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Management responsibilities

• To ensure that teams across the service have sufficient information and training for the effective delivery of the are of service in which the postholder is lead, in line with Trust protocols and in contributing to the wider CYP quality agenda.
• To provide professional, clinical and management supervision to less senior practitioners, assistants and trainees. To support supervisees in professional development including accreditation where applicable and in agreement with the organisation.
• To ensure adequate confidential and safe storage for artefacts produced during the therapy process in line with professional guidelines
• To ensure that all practitioners for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.

Leadership

• To work with the leads/managers across Bexley CAMHS and the relevant CYP directorate groups (and sub-groups) to coordinate an area of of service delivery that is focussed on the needs of service users and underpinned by evidence-based practice
• To contribute to co-ordinating / chairing team meetings as required (including case discussion)
• To support a psychologically informed framework for the team
• To contribute to ensuring the team or service’s 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 advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans, including management of risk and deliberate self-harm
• 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/service’s policies and procedures.
• To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of clinical / assistant psychologists and other clinical staff as required

 Clinical

• To plan, organise and ensure the delivery of effective clinical work across CAMHS, to ensure that this includes the use of routine outcome measures.
• To provide highly specialist clinical assessments, formulations and interventions, and to provide consultation to other professionals and colleagues, according to agreed scope and remit of the team.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

• To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities and to actively address health inequalities and discrimination. 
• To represent Oxleas and offer specialist clinical advice to senior forums, panels and working groups, related to case management, performance and service development.
• To hold a caseload and provide specialist assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and young people, and to provide clinical supervision and consultation in relation to complex casework.
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior practitioner according to professional and Trust guidelines.

Research

• To contribute to CPD in research methods and quality improvement
• To initiate, implement and evaluate service development work to improve the quality and delivery of service within the service.
• To ensure the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities
• To participate in, or lead when appropriate, Trust and Children’s Services strategic development and implementation of new initiatives (e.g. national guidelines), through membership of committees and/or working parties
• To be responsible for applying clinical governance standards within the service and ensure that these are maintained and improved
• To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards.
• To organise access to, and provide, specialist clinical placements for trainees as required
• To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in evidence-based interventions for child mental health difficulties and by implementing knowledge gained in practice
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles
• To ensure the planning, initiation and completion of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and the national research agenda relevant to supporting children and families

To be pro-active in dissemination of practice and developing practice within national and international forums connected to clinical practice within CAMHS.