Job summary
- Main area
- Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7851874-AZ-A
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital - Wandsworth
- Town
- Wandsworth
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Supervisor & Service Coordinator
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
The Wandsworth Mental Health Support Team is an original trailblazer team, started in January 2019 and currently comprises of 3 qualified Education Wellbeing Practitioners (EWPs), an EWP trainee, a qualified CBT Therapist and the advertised post, which is the most senior post and supervisor within the MHST. The team works with a cluster of schools across the Southfields and Earlsfield areas in Wandsworth, offering both direct interventions within the schools and the implementation of a whole schools approach to mental health.
The advertised post is an exciting and varied role with good scope for creative and innovative working within a new national initiative to increase mental health input directly into schools. There is a very strong supervisor peer support network across the service as well as clinical supervision being offered by the borough 8B lead and service development supervision being offered by the consultant psychology lead. There is a huge amount of opportunity for developing skills and being at the forefront of an innovative service. We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and creative psychologist who is keen to expand their skills and learn on the job, with strong support offered at all levels.
The post is full time, fixed term for one year, although term time only or 0.8wte will also be considered. There is also the opportunity to move to a permanent part time post in the same team after the fixed term contract finishes.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the MHST and supervision of the staff, including managing risk and safeguarding issues. The role includes a link liaison role with schools and working jointly with wider MHSTs and CAMHS teams to ensure joined up service delivery. The whole school approach work involves working collaboratively with schools at a preventative level, meeting need as it arises. There are many opportunities for offering consultation, staff training or reflective practice sessions, parent workshops, coffee mornings and groups. The postholder will also provide specialist clinical interventions for children and young people who do not meet CAMHS thresholds. There is an opportunity to complete EMDR training in order to pick up specialist EMDR cases within the cluster if desired.
The MHSTs work within a network of child mental health resources that coordinate early help, targeted help and specialist interventions for children and young people according to presentation and need. There are good opportunities for linking in with local CAMHS and the Single Point of Access. As these services are all run by the Trust, this makes for smoother linking in and liaison across teams.
Applications will be welcomed from qualified psychologists who already have good previous experience of working in CAMHS.
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 as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
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.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
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Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To promote and ensure highly specialist psychological services and skills to the team and schools
· To collaboratively work with schools to implement a whole school approach to mental health, including staff consultation and training as appropriate.
· To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
· To offer clinical supervision to the EWPs and the band 6 & 7 posts, with a focus on CBT models and parenting approaches. Providing clinical input to supervisees’ PADRs.
· Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
· To offer direct interventions with 5 to 11 year olds and their parents in primary schools plus 11 to 18 year olds in secondary schools, including those who may have experienced trauma and who exhibit behaviours that may be challenging
· To lead on the management of clinical risk or safeguarding issues within the team
· To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
· To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
· To work with the consultant clinical lead and school cluster lead to provide a clear team focus and goals for increasing mental health access and support across the cluster of schools.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
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.
- Experience of working within a school setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Annika Clark
- Job title
- Consultant Psychology & Psychotherapy Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02035133291
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