CAMHS Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity for a CAMHS Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join a dynamic Neurodevelopmental Team delivering specialized mental health services for children and adolescents. The role encompasses assessments, evidence-based interventions, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to support young people facing complex mental health challenges. Comprehensive benefits include generous pay, career development support, and a commitment to staff well-being.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions, and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in multidisciplinary teams and mental health problems in CAMHS.
• Training in one or more evidence-based trauma interventions.
• Registered with statutory bodies like NMC or HCPC.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people.
• Communicate sensitive information to clients and their families.
• Contribute to service development and promote a culturally competent service.

Skills

Evidence-based interventions

Cultural competence

Risk assessment

Education

Postgraduate accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

The closing date is 31 July 2025

CAMHS Clinical Specialist (Professionally registered Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, Systemic Psychotherapist, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Nurse or Social Worker)

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Neurodevelopmental Team, a well-established, dynamic and supportive core team within Lewisham CAMHS.

The team provides a service to children and young people with complexneurodevelopmental and /or moderate to severe learning disabilities and their families.Referrals are received from Health including GP and Child Health, Children's Social Care,and Education. Children and young people referred have a range of difficulties includingchallenging behaviour and significant mental health problems. In response we provide assessments and evidence-based interventions/treatment. The post holder will have experience offering evidence based interventions to ideally, neurodivergent children and families. Appropriate training will be provided for the right candidate

Main duties of the job

To provide CAMHS assessments and evidence-based interventions to children referred to the NDT

To contribute to the service's MDT when discussing formulations and treatment plans.

To ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality and within CAMHS and professional requirement standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS

To provide support and advise parents/carers through parenting interventions and psychoeducation, as well as offer consultation and advice to their professional networks

- To think creatively, work flexibly and have a range of clinical skills in working alongside others to support a complex range of service users and their network.

To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work. Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

Job responsibilities

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

- To provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for Children, Young People, their family and Network where the identified client has complex mental health needs.

- To provide culturally appropriate, evidenced based interventions in partnership with carers, networks or families of referred clients.

- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

- To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing care plans, co-ordination and meetings.

- To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information and provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers, service users and their families.

- To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.

- To ensure that all services provided are accessible, respectful and sensitive to the needs of Southwarks diverse communities.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning.

- To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically and systemically informed framework in CAMHS.

- To provide consultations to other clinical staff on the use of family therapy and systemic psychotherapy techniques and, where appropriate, to jointly work with other team members in the provision of therapeutic interventions

- To take a proactive stance in challenging racism and discrimination and support the development of a culturally competent service.

- To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans and to arrange and lead network meetings as appropriate.

- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in clinical work and work with other team members.

- To participate in helping develop services to family and carers of service users

KR 3 Policy and service development

- To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

- To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

- To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

KR 5 Teaching and Training

- To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within Southwark CAMHS by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in your specialist field of practice.

- To disseminate research/service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

To contribute to multidisciplinary training events which may be organised by other staff within the Trust

KR 6 Record-keeping and Information Governance

- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 7 Research and development

- To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

KR 8 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to registration and trust guidelines.

- To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with professional body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

KR9 General

- To travel to appropriate meetings and occasional visits in homes or community settings as appropriate and across the trust when required.

- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour and follow trust policies relating to its management, including lone working policies.

- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations (such as challenging behaviour, abuse etc) and to support others involved in such situations through Trust-wide approaches including Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Postgraduate accredited training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
• Postgraduate accredited training in Systemic Psychotherapy Doctorate level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology or First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV or First level qualification in OT, social work All applicants will require a professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies: the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) , Health Professional's Council (HPC/ HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) .
• Training in one or more evidence based trauma intervention
• Specific additional therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. ABFT, EFT, NVR, DBT, IPT etc.

Experience

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS
• Experience of working with young people who have experienced traumatic events
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
• Experience of using CBT or EMDR
• Experience of working in a culturally diverse innercity area
• Experience of working with issues of risk and safety both physical and relational.

Knowledge and Skills

• Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to information sharing and confidentiality
• Understanding of and ability to maintain a safe therapeutic environment.
• Ability to provide care that is sensitive to the needs of minoritised ethnic groups
• Ability to work in partnership with service users and carers in the planning and delivery of care
• Working knowledge of MHA, MCA and safeguarding children legislation

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

£54,320 to £60,981 a yearper annum incl. of HCAs pro rata