CAMHS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Child & Adolescent Me[...]

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

The South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking a part-time CAMHS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist. The role entails providing mental health assessments and interventions for children, managing a caseload, and supervising trainees. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in multi-disciplinary settings. This position offers the chance to be part of an innovative team in a dynamic mental health environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive team environment

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• HCPC registration as Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.
• Experience working with children and in multidisciplinary teams.
• Continuing professional development and relevant Post qualification training.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychological assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Supervise assistant psychologists and trainees.
• Provide specialist psychological advice and risk management.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Supervision skills

Risk management

Education

HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Continuing professional development

Evidence-based psychological therapy training

Job description

CAMHS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 294-CAMHS-7148598-FZ-C

Site Tolworth Hospital Town Surbiton Salary £46,148 - £60,504 Per Rota Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 24/06/2025 23:59

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 7-8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Preceptorship 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 or soon to be newly qualified clinical psychologists with the following:

• Qualification as Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered as or due to be 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 work towards forming part of the leadership team within the service, with opportunities to develop supervision skills 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

Clinical

1.To provide specialist psychological assessments to children who are referred to the Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the child or young person’s care.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and / or management of the mental health problems of children and young people who are based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and psycho-educational interventions for individual children, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams including community settings employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options for children and their families in conjunction with other professional colleagues, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, group or system.

5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.

6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan for the children.

7. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all children, across all settings and agencies serving this client group.

8. To undertake mental health risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

9. To act as mental health care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced Care Planning Approach (CPA) including the children, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care. This includes organising case conferences and professional network meetings where appropriate.

10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• • 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.
• • 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

• • 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.
• • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• • Experience of service development or of a leadership role.

At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.

As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace:

• BME (Evolve) Staff Network
• DiverseAbility
• Mental Health Staff Forum
• Women's Staff Network
• LGBTQIA+

We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and has signed the Armed Forces Covenant.

We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.

Please note:

• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3 rd party e-recruitment system
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That your employment is offered subject to successful completion of a Probationary Period depending on your Band (except medical roles)
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

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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.

Name Lorna Taha Job title Service Manager Email address [e-mail] 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 [e-mail] or 020 8547 6171.

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Helen Albon, Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for the service, on [e-mail] or 020 8547 6171.