CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in London is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join a multi-disciplinary team. This role involves providing psychological interventions, assessments, and clinical supervision to young clients with complex needs. Opportunities for flexible working and contributions to service development will enhance your experience. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 to be part of this innovative team.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in providing psychological input for complex cases.
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
• Skills in conducting training and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Offer assessment and intervention to young people with complex presentations.
• Provide clinical supervision and training.
• Contribute to care planning and service development.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Psychological intervention

Supervision

Consultation and training

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Due to service expansion the National and Specialist (N&S) CAMHS Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT) are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The AID-IIT are an innovative multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of London. We offer specialist multi-disciplinary outpatient support to young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID who are at high risk of inpatient admission or already admitted to a CAMHS inpatient unit. AID-IIT co-work with inpatient and local CAMHS teams across London to improve care and support for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID and high-risk presentations. Staff working in AID-IIT benefit from excellent team support and development opportunities. We have close links with the rest of the Service for Complex Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SCAAND) and with other N&S CAMHS teams. The team are at the forefront of the development of support, practice and interventions for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID. Clinical work in AID-IIT is diverse – including working into both inpatient and outpatient/community settings, offering consultation and training, contributing to complex multi-disciplinary assessments, offering interventions for children, young people, parents and carers, and contributing to research and publication. AID-IIT staff have access to a range of CPD and training opportunities both within and outside of SLAM NHS Trust.

The postholder will work as a Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in AID-IIT to provide specialist psychology input into MDT assessments, psychological interventions to young people and parents/carers and consultation, training and support to multi-agency local networks including staff from local and inpatient CAMHS settings, and supervision, line management and support to other junior staff within AID-IIT. The role includes work across a range of settings - offering outreach work in community settings, inreach work in inpatient settings, working from home, and working from our clinic base, depending on the needs of the young person, family and network. The role will also involve contributing to service developments within AID-IIT and across wider SCAAND.

Location and links

About our locations: The Michael Rutter Centre is located on the Maudsley hospital site and is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in late 2025/early 2026)

Flexible working

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post.

Role and responsibilities

• Offering assessment (including where needed cognitive/psychometric assessment) and intervention to young people with highly complex presentations, their families/carers and wider networks.
• To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training.
• To contribute to care planning of young people by attending CETRs, CPAs and other professional/network meetings.
• To use routine outcome measures and to contribute to service evaluation, audit and research.
• To oversee good clinical governance.
• To contribute to the leadership of the team including service development/planning, and the supervision and recruitment of more junior staff within AID-IIT.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To work flexibly as needed across settings offering outreach work when needed – for example seeing young people in inpatient settings, family homes, community settings across London as required.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025