Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Overview

In this role you will deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions for young people in the Core CAMHS service. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to support recovery and wellbeing, handling complex presentations across home, school, and community settings. You will apply evidence-based therapies and contribute to service development and research. You will uphold governance and Trust policies while engaging families to place their views at the center of care. This position offers a meaningful opportunity to shape child mental health care at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing service for staff
• Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for children and young people up to 18 using diverse data sources
• Design and implement psychological treatment plans across multiple settings
• Conduct risk assessment and risk management for individual clients
• Act as care co-ordinator/lead professional in multidisciplinary reviews
• Deliver and supervise psychologically-based interventions for children and families
• Offer training, consultation and clinical supervision to the team
• Engage with children and families to center care planning
• Develop outcome-focused planning and monitoring systems
• Maintain documentation and reports in line with policy
• Collaborate with social care, education and voluntary sector partners

Key requirements

• Demonstrable experience delivering highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions in NHS mental health
• Experience working in multidisciplinary and multi-agency services
• Knowledge of mental health needs of military veterans (trauma)
• UK registration with HCPC or equivalent
• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent) or BABCP/BACP with relevant psychotherapy qualifications
• Ability to communicate complex information effectively to diverse stakeholders
• Experience with audit, service development and quality improvement

• Effective written and verbal communication
• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage waiting lists
• CBT
• DBT
• EMDR

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