CAMHS Clinical Psychologist Band 7 to Band 8a Preceptorship | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Bedford is seeking a clinical psychologist to provide specialized support to children and adolescents. The role includes psychological assessments, trauma-informed interventions, and clinical supervision of junior staff. Candidates should possess significant experience related to child and adolescent mental health. This position offers opportunities for professional development through a preceptorship program.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in child and adolescent mental health.
• Experience in line management and clinical supervision.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions.
• Offer clinical supervision to trainee and other psychologists.
• Develop systems of care with partners.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Trauma-informed care

Clinical supervision

Team collaboration

Education

Preceptorship experience

Qualification in clinical psychology

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a clinical psychologist who is interested in developing their skills further within the Bedford Community Access Pathway. This post is based within Bedford Community Access Service CAMHS (CAS) Service, and provides a specialist service to young people, their families/caring networks, working closely with external partners including Education, Local Authority and Primary Care. This is a community-based post, located within Bedford CAMHS, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments, group-work and psychoeducation to children, young people and parent/carers.

About Bedford CAS

Bedford CAS provides specialist therapeutic interventions to children, adolescents and their families from a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds, whose problems cause mild to moderate levels of concern to themselves, their parents/carers, professionals and the wider community. The team also works closely with the locality CAMH teams to provide a seamless multi-disciplinary service.

Role and responsibilities

The team is part of wider and comprehensive Bedfordshire Specialist CAMH Services that offers a comprehensive stepped model of mental health care, from early intervention partnerships with all our schools and GP practices, to the imminent opening of an adolescent inpatient unit with intensive home treatment care, providing for all four quadrants of the Thrive model. The role will include the provision of specialist advice/consultation to the network around the young person, psychological assessment, liaison with other agencies, psychology interventions, cognitive assessments, delivering training and workshops, supporting and informing on the trauma-based care for the children and young people and their caring networks, helping to develop a system of care and embedding a trauma-informed approach with partner agencies, clinical supervision (Band 8A) and line management (Band 8A).

Band 8A details

At Band 8A, the post holder will be an experienced psychologist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health, with an awareness of the social, emotional and psychological impact of care experienced young people. They will clinically supervise the work of trainee psychologists and other psychologists as needed, and offer management supervision to other members of the team. A preceptorship will be offered to less experienced psychologist to offer support and training to enable the transition to Band 8A two years post qualification.

Our values and collaboration

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Partnership and program information

As part of CAMHS commitment to partnership working with, we have expanded our clinical intervention to support the Multidisciplinary Team Around the School (TAS) charter, in conjunction with Cambridgeshire Community services NHS Trust and Bedford borough council. This is a pilot project as part of the Change programme. This is a multi-agency collective working in partnership to create opportunities for the early identification of diverse needs to offer children and young people the right support in the right place at the right time. The meetings working towards embedding new behaviors and ways of working and moving towards making inclusion a reality.

Application

For more details please view the attached Job Description.

Contract and closing date

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Sep 2025.