Job summary
- Main area
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7148598-FZ-B
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tolworth Hospital
- Town
- Surbiton
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Per Rota Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Part Time Hours (22.5hrs; 0.6 WTE)
The Kingston & Richmond CAMHS SPA provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties. We are a team composing of Psychologists, a Psychiatrist, Mental Health Nurses, Assistant Psychologists, Administrators, as well as Trainees and Students on regular rotation. We are a friendly team who value each other’s skills and expertise, as well as the importance of having good supportive relationships with each other.
This role is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the following:
· Qualification as Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC.
· Experience of working with children and young people
· Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
· Experience of supervising assistant psychologists and/or trainees
· The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community.
· The ability to efficiently manage a caseload.
· Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
· Ideally a special interest in child neurodevelopment and neurodiversity
· The ability to adapt to the fast-paced nature of CAMHS SPA work, with good IT and computer recording skills to navigate between the various IT record systems within CAMHS, SWLSTG Trust and Achieving for Children
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate would be a key clinician within the CAMHS SPA, offering mental health assessments as described above. They would also form part of the leadership team within the service, with opportunities for supervision of placement students, trainee clinical psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and qualified clinicians within the service as appropriate. There would also be opportunities for service development, with a key role of supporting for the ongoing development of our SPA and its integrated role both within the wider CAMHS Service and with our Achieving For Children partners.
There will also be opportunities to take on other activities (e.g., therapeutic work) within the local community tier 3 CAMHS service.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
About the locations :
Woodroffe House, Tolworth Hospital
To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site’s layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
Livingston House, Teddington – To re-locate permanently to Richmond Royal Summer 2025
Our community hub is near shops, restaurants and stations in Teddington with trains to Richmond, Kingston, Clapham Junction, or Waterloo. This service will permanently re-locate to a new bespoke CAMHS building at Richmond Royal Hospital in Summer 2025. Richmond Royal Hospital is located in Richmond Town Centre. It is a 5 minute walk from Overground and South West Train routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide specialist assessments of children/ young people and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
- To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
- To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
- To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
- To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
- To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
- To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- • Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist
- • Evidence of continuing professional development.
- • Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
Desirable criteria
- • Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
- • Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
- • Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- • Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
- • Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- • Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- • Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Lorna Taha
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
We look forward to receiving your application. If you would like to discuss the post further, please contact:
Dr. Rachel Mahoney, Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for the service, on [email protected] or 020 8547 6171.
or
Helen Albon, Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for the service, on [email protected] or 020 8547 6171.
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