CAMHS Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider is looking for a Senior Clinician to join their multidisciplinary team at a CAMHS facility in Greenwich. This role involves providing specialist psychological services to young people facing emotional and mental health issues, alongside responsibilities for supervision and consultation. The successful applicant will work within a structured and supportive environment, with ample opportunities for training and career progression while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package, including generous pay and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pay (outer-London weighting)

Flexible working arrangements

Access to training courses

Wellbeing services and staff networks

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical psychology in CAMHS in the NHS.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.
• Skilled in risk assessment and management.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offer supervision to clinical psychologists and trainees.
• Utilise research skills for audit and service development.

Skills

Psychological assessment and intervention

Autonomy and leadership

Consultation skills

Research skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

HCPC registration

Job description

Job summary

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic psychologist to provide a highly specialist service for young people in the Borough of Greenwich. The post is based in the experienced multidisciplinary Generic Team in Greenwich CAMHS and involves delivering a highly specialist psychology service to children and young people with a wide range of emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties. The post holder will have the opportunity to take a leadership role for an aspect of clinical care, such as developing a CBT pathway or treatment pathway for PTSD. These are just two examples and there will be scope to discuss other leadership options aligning with the post-holder's interests. Other aspects of the role include the following: providing specialist psychological assessment, intervention and treatment; undertaking goal-based case management; supervising trainee clinical psychologists and qualified psychologists; offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation; and utilising research skills for audit, service development and research projects within the service. In addition, the postholder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will hold a key role as a senior psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline. There are opportunities for supervision of Band 7 colleagues, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. As a senior psychologist, there are possibilities for service development and quality improvement work.

The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions.

The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development.

Greenwich CAMHS has close relationships with the wider specialist CAMHS, our cross-borough crisis team for young people, our DBT service and the wider South London Partnership.

We have a large, well-established and supportive Clinical Psychology department that benefits from excellent links with the South Thames (Salomon's) Clinical Psychology Training Scheme. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities. As Clinical Psychologists, we are well integrated in the multi-disciplinary teams across the service with strong and positive inter-disciplinary relationships.

Job description

Detailed Job Description is attached. Main responsibilities include:

• Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Greenwich CAMHS Generic Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to clinical psychologists/psychological therapists and trainees.
• Providing initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the team.
• Offering supervision to more junior staff.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
• Utilising research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Womans Network's.

The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued and offer benefits including:

• Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (life assurance) and leave package
• Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
• Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)
• Benefits include a cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare. Staff are able to access wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) & vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.
• We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to providing all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.

Details

• Date posted: 02 December 2025
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £61,631 to £68,623 a year pa inc
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 277-7388307-CYP-A
• Job location: Highpoint House, Shooters Hill, Greenwich, London SE18 3RZ

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Essential:
  • HCPC registration
  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Desirable:
  • Other relevant qualification (e.g. MSc, Post Grad diploma)
  • Training in specialist therapy relevant to post
  • Training in supervision (beyond basic induction training)

Experience

• Essential:
  • Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in CAMHS in the NHS
  • Experience of consulting to other professionals and agencies
• Desirable:
  • Experience of working as an 8a
  • Experience of supervising
  • Experience of delivering teaching/training
  • Experience of clinical leadership of an aspect of a service

Knowledge & Skills

• Essential:
  • Appropriate skills and knowledge of risk assessment/management in the client group
  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Desirable:
  • Demonstrates knowledge of how to apply research and audit specific to the post
  • Demonstrates knowledge of wider policy context relevant to post
  • Possesses transferable skills from other posts (not already scored) which are relevant to the post
  • Demonstrates awareness of power and diversity issues
  • Description of knowledge and skills has been made specific to the post advertised

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Highpoint House

Shooters Hill

Greenwich, London

SE18 3RZ