Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 260-TP-923
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tavistock and Portman 5PS Site
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 Per annum -pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Principal Clinician – Trauma Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Growing With You is a 0-25 CAMHS team working with Camden Children Looked After, Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers and Care Experienced Young People. It is a multi-disciplinary specialist team which is co-located with social workers from the Local Authority Children Looked After and Permanency Teams.
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that assesses mental health needs; advises on appropriate mental health provisions, risk management; care planning and provides interventions and therapeutic support to children, young people and their carers. The team has a community approach and will provide a range of interventions in an attempt to engage and support this group of young people to develop relationships with professionals.
The team promotes joint working between different agencies and works in partnership with carers and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people, whilst maintaining professional independence.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of outcome focused, evidence based, and complex interventions and responsible for the formulation and delivery of specialised programmes of care, working collaboratively with other clinicians and stakeholders.
The post holder will hold a highly complex caseload and develop and formulate specialised programmes of care for service users that are outcome focused and evidence based.
The post holder will communicate complex information in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to members of the multidisciplinary team, care partners and service users, who may on occasion, present with challenging behaviours.
The post holder will act as a case manager for service users being treated by other colleagues, providing oversight of assessments, treatment and discharge of patients.
The post holder will maintain a high standard of clinical records, preparing reports for internal use and for external agencies, maintaining good communications with referrers and other professionals involved.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the services users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of the individual’s ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust’s policies, procedures and obligation in respect of equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- 2 yrs qualified experience as a Clinical psychologist
- Experience of working in a CAMHS setting
- Experience of working with Children Looked After
- Experience of supervising trainees and clinical psychologists
- Ability to provide detailed feedback to supervisees to support their learning and development
- Experience of working in an integrated setting with other agencies
Desirable criteria
- Working with complexity
- Experience of working in the community with families who do not have a trusting relationship with professionals
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Patricia Pemberton
- Job title
- Team Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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