Job Summary
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
Bromley CAMHS is a friendly, award winning and thriving team, regarded as an accessible and effective service. The role involves capturing clinical data for the purpose of audit and evaluation. The successful candidate will require good IT skills and knowledge of Excel and SPSS for analytical purposes. They will be able to work to meet deadlines and to produce high quality reports and presentations to share findings with a wide multidisciplinary group of professionals, including local commissioners. The successful candidate will be reliable and will require excellent communication skills. An interest in working with children and young people is desirable. The post will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist.

About Us
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.

Job 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

• An honours degree in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychology Society

Experience
Essential

• Experience working within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Team
• Experience of contributing to audit and service evaluation in a CAMHS setting

Desirable

• Further post-graduate experience in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Skills
Essential

• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Bromley CAMHS, Stepping Stones House, 38 Masons Hill, Bromley, BR2 9JG
Contact: Dr Emily Davies, emily.davies71@nhs.net, 02083154430
Website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/