CAMHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHSFT; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Chesterfield is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide expert leadership within CAMHS. The role involves delivering assessments, engaging with multidisciplinary teams, and enhancing service quality. Ideal candidates will have a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and experience with children and young people's mental health. The position offers a supportive environment and an opportunity to work in a beautiful location.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Support for mental well-being

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience in clinical psychology with children and young people.
• Ability to provide psychological advice and support to teams.
• Experience in governance and quality assurance in mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and guidance in psychological assessments and interventions.
• Oversee and improve service quality and governance.
• Manage and supervise psychological professionals.

Skills

Expert psychological assessment

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Leadership in mental health

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

This post provides clinical and professional leadership to Clinical Psychologists within CAMHS. The post-holder will provide expert highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions overview for children and young people with the most complex needs in Core CAMHS. To provide highly specialist expert supervision advice and consultant to CAMHS clinicians. To provide expertise to the CAMHS clinical leadership team on the development of specialist evidence-based psychological therapy and work with partner agencies in the provision of mental health services. The post-holder will provide professional, high-level, and effective line management and clinical supervision structures to psychological professionals (primarily focused on Core CAMHS). To support the delivery of Care Unit leadership functions including but not limited to, governance, service development and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

1. To lead on, and provide expert, specialist psychological advice, guidance and contribute to highly-specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for children and young people with complex needs in CAMHS (primarily in Core).
2. To lead on the provision of high quality evidenced-based therapies in CAMHS working closely across multidisciplinary teams and with the service’s senior management team.
3. To contribute to care unit management functions such as quality governance, contributing to service improvement, quality assurance and governance across the Service, including an overview/emphasis on Audit, NICE (National Institute for Excellence) Guidelines, ROMs (Routine Outcome Measures) and patient experience.
4. To work as part of the Care Unit management team and take a lead role in appropriate service-wide developments.
5. To provide collaborative and compassionate clinical leadership that enables positive engagement and skills development, and managerial support for the psychological workforce.
6. To deputise for the service lead duties.
7. To provide managerial supervision to the psychological workforce.
8. To provide psychology advice beyond the care unit, supporting functions across the wider organisation.
9. To develop and maintain close working relationships with system service providers.

Context and Culture

The founding principles of the NHS have significantly influenced our “Leading the Chesterfield Way”, and our Proud to CARE values. This means leading with care, openness, integrity and embedding an inclusive culture. We know that people have a life and responsibilities outside of work and we offer flexibility and a whole raft of support to care for your physical and mental well-being. This role is hugely important to us and we look forward to hearing from you.

Location

Located in the heart of the peak district, in the beautiful spa town of Buxton, this post (at one of our Core CAMHS bases) offers a fantastic location with circular walks, parks, spa facilities, a range of shops and cafes; and boasting impressive Georgian and Victorian architecture.

There will be some opportunities to carry out work at one of our other bases in the historic market town of Chesterfield: either at our main hospital on a greenfield site with abundant countryside and lovely views or our newer CAMHS base (where some therapy clinics are currently based) ideally located near Chesterfield train station and the town centre.

Additional Information

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

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Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025