Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7389669-FZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £33,094 - £36,195 Pro rota per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/09/2025
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist (Deaf Child Out Patient London)
NHS AfC: Band 4
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
The National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is part of a high quality comprehensive national service for children, young people, and their families up to eighteen years of age who are severely or profoundly deaf and have significant difficulties with their mental health. You would be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team; currently consisting of Psychiatry, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Nursing, Social work, and Family Therapy.
The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in the London outpatient team including interface with other National Deaf CAMHS services (Kent and Cambridge for instance) and receive clinical supervision and support from the Clinical Psychologists within these teams.
- You will need at least a 2:1 degree in psychology, Level One BSL and good conversational skills in BSL, an understanding of the needs and difficulties of deaf people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, and good research skills (including up to date I.T. skills). Experience of working with d/Deaf people would be valuable, but we recognize that not all applicants will have had this opportunity. Tailored induction and training will be provided to enable you to work effectively with this client group.
Applications from people who have personal experience of d/Deafness and/or mental health difficulties would be welcomed.
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’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
· To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems.
· To work with other staff to assess outpatients, develop individualised intervention / treatment plans and review their care.
· To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
· To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
- Eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- British Sign Language Level 1
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
- British Sign Language level 2+ Post-qualification training in the field of psychological therapies
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities
Desirable criteria
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision
- Experience of working with deaf people as colleagues and/or clients
- Experience of using computers for report writing, databases or data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
- Personal experience of deafness
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
- Victor Nathan
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02035134673
- Additional information
For further information please contact Constanza Moreno (Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead) on
0203 513 6925 [email protected]
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