clinician (Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist/Child Psychotherapist

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced senior clinician to lead the CAMHS service as part of the Lighthouse. This role involves providing expert clinical input, supervising practitioners, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support children affected by trauma. This is a maternity cover position for one year, working in an innovative environment designed for child-friendly care. Strong leadership and clinical governance skills are essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Experienced in clinical psychology or related field.
• Ability to lead and manage services effectively.
• Experience in providing supervision to staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical input across the Lighthouse.
• Monitor and implement professional standards in psychological therapies.
• Contribute to creating a psychologically safe environment for diverse backgrounds.
• Conduct research, service evaluation, and audits.
• Ensure quality and appropriateness of CAMHS practitioners' work.
• Collaborate with other leads to enhance services for children and families.

Skills

Expert clinical input

Leadership in CAMHS pathways

Quality governance

Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

Job description

We are looking for an experienced senior clinician (Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist/Child Psychotherapist) to lead, manage and plan the delivery of a highly specialist CAMHS service as part of the Lighthouse. This is a maternity cover post for one year. The Lighthouse is the first UK Barnahus (Child House), an evidence‑based international model of best practice for supporting CYP following sexual abuse. The Lighthouse is a multi‑professional, child‑centred and trauma‑informed service and a national leader in the field, providing holistic multi‑disciplinary assessment, physical and emotional health support, safeguarding and criminal justice support under one roof in a child‑friendly environment. This includes Achieving Best Evidence interviews led by Lighthouse CAMHS practitioners and access to remote trials from the Lighthouse. The service is led by University College London Hospitals working with the NSPCC and Metropolitan Police Service. CYP who live in the five boroughs in North Central London: Camden, Islington, Enfield, Haringey and Barnet can be referred or can self‑refer to the service.

Responsibilities

• To personally provide expert clinical input across the Lighthouse and to lead the CAMHS/psychological therapies care pathways.
• To be responsible to the Lighthouse Clinical Lead for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of psychological therapies and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and the research agenda, including outcomes reporting.
• To be responsible for the good clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of CAMHS practitioners in the service.
• To work in close collaboration with other Lighthouse leads (in Practice Development, Social Work, Advocacy, Paediatric Health and Police roles) to fulfil and further develop the multi‑disciplinary offer to children and families, contributing to a culture of collaboration, integrated practice and continuous learning.

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This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date.