Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to take up a role as Principal Clinical Psychologist in the Greenwich LDND team, encompassing the Clinical Lead role for Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes.

This post will form part of the leadership group within the LDND team, leading on and supporting the development of psychological therapies pathways and ensuring high standards of clinical care for young people with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions accessing the service. As the Greenwich CAMHS Outcomes Clinical lead the post will further embed the use of a clinical outcomes-led approach across Greenwich CAMHS, and taking forward the CYP-IAPT principles into Greenwich CAMHS services.

The post-holder will work closely  with other CAMHS borough Outcomes leads and the Greenwich operational and clinical leads. Developing strong relationships with team managers and clinical leads to support clinical outcomes will be a key part of this role.  

The role will involve leading on addressing issues affecting engagement and reporting. Direct clinical work and clinical supervision will also be a key components of the role. 

Main duties of the job

This post is based in the multidisciplinary LDND team in Greenwich CAMHS. The team provides specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for children, young people and their families with learning disability and/or neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to co-occurring mental health difficulties. The LDND team works closely with education, social care and other agencies within the network to support young people.

The role provides senior clinical leadership, working closely with LDND leadership colleagues and operational management to support all aspects of multidisciplinary CAMHS work. The postholder has specific responsibility for psychological therapies  and outcomes delivery, while also delivering direct clinical work and clinical supervision. 

Greenwich CAMHS is the process of a redesign to align with the Thrive framework to ensure timely, responsive and needs based mental health interventions for the children and young people in Greenwich.

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