Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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The closing date is 14 May 2026
We are looking for an 8A Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, to work in our warm and friendly Wandsworth Tier 3 CAMHS service. The CAMHS service now resides within new and transformed CAMHS buildings on the Springfield hospital site.
If you want to work locally and/or work in a service with excellent travel links, with an employer that offers flexible and agile working with great development and carer progression opportunities, then this may be the role you!
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a Highly Specialist Counselling or Clinical Psychologist with experience in supervision, leadership and service development and in-depth knowledge assessing and treating children and young people in community settings.
The post is located in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Directorate of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond, as well as providing a range of specialist services to wider, regional and national catchment areas.
Community CAMH services efficiently and effectively deliver child mental health assessment and treatment according to the principles that underpin the Care and Partnership Approach and the Young Persons Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) initiative.
The service is delivered via a number of locality based and specialist teams. The service includes dedicated devices for Eating Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Assessment, Complex Learning Difficulties, Multi-Systemic Therapy and Emergency Care.
Wandsworth Tier 3 CAMHS supports children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs and their parents/ carers. The multi-disciplinary team comprises of Psychiatry, Family Therapy, Nursing, Positive Behaviour Support, Occupational Therapy, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Clinical and Counselling Psychology.
About us
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.
This post will be based at Springfield Hospital
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.
Job responsibilities
Key aspects of the role include:
- Providing highly specialist Clinical or Counselling psychology services to children, young people and their families / carers across all sectors of care; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
- Carrying a caseload and coordinating care for those children, young people and families on the caseload.
- Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care. Working within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
- Supporting the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
- Promoting the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience through supervision, team meetings and other forums.
- Seeking opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
- Utilising research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
- Providing specific leadership in one or two service areas (e.g. groups; ROMs; PPI; E&D). Area to be agreed/confirmed once in post.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
- Qualified Clinical / Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist under the domain of Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidence based approach.
- Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
- Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological model.
Experience
- 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.
- Demonstrated 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.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
£66,274 to £73,496 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
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