Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

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

Job summary

The NHS is recruiting a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for their Lewisham CAMHS team. This Band 7 role focuses on providing psychological assessments and intervention services to children and young people, ensuring culturally competent practices while contributing to team development. The position offers full-time hours with flexibility for part-time options, prioritizing work-life balance and ongoing professional development opportunities within an award-winning facility.

Qualifications

• Provisional accreditation with the BABCP preferred.
• Experience in clinical psychology or psychotherapy required.
• Ability to provide culturally appropriate services.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and treatments for clients.
• Manage a caseload as a Care Coordinator.
• Offer supervision to junior staff members.

Skills

Clinical Supervision

Assessment and Intervention

Consultation Skills

Cultural Competency

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Entry-level qualification in Psychotherapy

Job description

Go back South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

The closing date is 28 July 2025

We are delighted to be advertising this Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist role within our Lewisham CAMHS Core Tier 3 Team (Horizon). We welcome applications from final year Trainee Psychologists and CBT Therapists with provisional accreditation with the BABCP where it looks likely they will achieve their full accreditation within the year (please see person specification).

We strongly advise contacting us if you are interested in applying for this role.

Main duties of the job

• To provide psychological and/or psychotherapeutic assessment, formulation and treatment service within the Horizon Team (Core tier 3 CAMHS Team) in Lewisham CAMHS.
• To manage a caseload as a Care Coordinator.
• To utilise outcome measures and service user feedback to inform collaborative care planning, monitoring and supporting the journey of young people through the Lewisham CAMHS Service.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and, depending of experience, band 6 qualified staff.
• Consultation as appropriate.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BABCP/HCPC 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.

Although these are full time posts, we would be happy to consider part time work / job shares in line with service need.

As one of the few Trusts in London we are happy to talk about 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.

About us

Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides a diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, including those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems. The service's Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams include: Horizon (generic); Neuro Developmental Team; Symbol (Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (severe and enduring mental health problems); ARTS (at risk forensic); Paediatric Liaison Service; MHST (Mental Health in Schools); CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners); Intake; and Crisis. Lewisham CAMHS focuses on providing high quality mental health support to young people locally. We continually identify and address any potentially barriers or inequalities in regards to access to, and input from, our service, as well as continually improving areas of staff wellbeing and equality within the staff group.

This post is clinically based within the generic team (Horizon) and the leadership component extends to the rest of Lewisham CAMHS. Horizon is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in the Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford, an award-winning purpose-built building that brings together specialist community services for health, disability, mental health, education and social care.

Job responsibilities

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

• To provide psychological/ CBT assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Horizon Team.
• To provide culturally appropriate services and to promote equality and access to all.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To act as care coordinator for a full caseload, taking responsibility for initiating care planning and reviewing care plans and outcomes, offering collaborative care co-ordination and coordinating / attending meetings appropriate professional network meetings as required.
• To support the Duty Services we offer to children and young people accessing the Horizon team.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

• To contribute to the effective working of the Horizon Teamand to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
• To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

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 the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 5 Management and supervision

• To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior staff if required, under supervision from a senior within the Horizon Team / Service.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

• To provide occasional specialist training in psychological / CBT/psychotherapeutic approaches to care to other professions as appropriate, including interagency training.
• To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

KR 7 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 8 Research and development

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

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior clinician according to HCPC/ BABCP and Trust guidelines.
• To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC/ BABCP 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.
• To comply with the HCPC/ BABCP Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency, and ensure professional development in line with these.
• To adhere to the Trust policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To have undertaken a recognised qualification in one of the core mental health professions, e.g. psychiatric nursing, clinical psychology, medicine, social work and occupational therapy OR to have equivalent relevant experience and demonstrable competence to work in the mental health field in the NHS.
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Entry-level qualification in Psychotherapy that has been accepted by the UKCP/ACP/BABCP
• Arts Therapists: Masters Degree (or equivalent) in Arts Therapy or Dance Movement Therapy. (or specify Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dramatherapy or Dance Movement Therapy)
• oRegistered with professional body as appropriate to discipline e.g. HCPC/UKCP/ACP/BABCP
• oSignificant post-qualification/graduation experience including experience of individual and group therapy with people with complex mental health needs.

Experience

• Experience of receiving and providing clinical supervision across a range of client needs
• Experience of clinical assessment, formulation and intervention with children and young people with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
• 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 working with children, young people and their families.
• Experience of receiving and providing clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working

Knowledge

• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment.
• Knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it's therapeutic application. Associated awareness of assessment and clinical psychometrics
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the CAMHS client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities
• To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources
• Knowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to discipline
• Knowledge of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis
• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care

Skills

• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
• To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers (and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews where appropriate.
• To administer psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials.
• To plan allocation of tasks to assistants/trainees as appropriates
• Consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups and sensitively managing, a number of people's needs simultaneously within the context of therapeutic work/consultation.
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
• oSkills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

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