Consultant Psychologist

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Selby; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Selby is seeking an experienced Consultant Psychologist to lead clinical initiatives within CAMHS. The role combines leadership with hands-on therapeutic responsibilities, focusing on enhancing mental health services for children and young people. Responsibilities include overseeing care plans, developing service pathways, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications, CAMHS experience, and a dedication to improving outcomes in mental health care. Join us to make a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

Access to CPD opportunities

Leadership development programmes

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist with significant CAMHS experience.
• Proven record of delivering evidence-based care.
• Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership in Selby CAMHS.
• Lead neurodevelopmental pathways for Autism and ADHD.
• Manage a varied caseload and supervise team development.

Skills

Clinical governance

Complex case communication

Clinical leadership

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Education

Post-graduate training in psychology

HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Post-doctoral training

Tools

Evidence-based practices

Job description

Consultant Psychologist

The closing date is 06 January 2026

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our Selby CAMHS leadership team. This is a great opportunity to combine clinical leadership with direct therapeutic work, shaping the future of mental health and neurodevelopmental services for children and young people.

As a senior member of the team, you will provide expert psychological formulation, consultation and intervention lead service development initiatives, and work with a multitude of system partners ensuring the voice of young people and families is central to everything we do.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical leadership and psychological expertise across Selby CAMHS, shaping formulation and care plans for children and young people with complex needs.
• Lead and develop neurodevelopmental pathways for Autism and ADHD, driving service improvements to enhance quality and inclusion.
• Champion co-production with young people and families, offer formal and informal supervision, and support team skill development.
• Alongside leadership duties, manage a varied caseload--acting as lead professional on some cases and co-working on others to model high-quality care.

About You

You are an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist with significant CAMHS experience and a proven record of delivering evidence-based care. Skilled in formulation, leadership, and supervision, you bring a passion for service development and innovation. Collaborative and inclusive, you work effectively across multi-disciplinary teams and agencies, amplifying the voices of children, young people, and families. Dynamic and compassionate, you value partnership working and trauma-informed leadership and are eager to shape neurodevelopmental pathways and improve outcomes at individual and systems levels.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

Job responsibilities

Why Join Us?

Selby CAMHS is a vibrant, multi-disciplinary team that prides itself on collaboration, creativity, and community engagement. We work closely with schools, social care, and voluntary organisations to deliver joined-up care and have a strong track record of successful inter-agency projects that make a real difference locally. Our team culture is supportive and forward-thinking, with a focus on staff wellbeing, professional development, and innovation in practice. You’ll have access to excellent CPD opportunities, research involvement, and leadership development programmes, alongside flexible working options and wellbeing initiatives. Joining us means becoming part of a service that values your expertise, encourages your ideas, and empowers you to help shape the future of CAMHS provision in Selby. You will also join the network of senior psychologists across North Yorkshire, York and Selby CAMHS and benefit from support and opportunities via this forum.

You can also use the same email address to request contact from:

Charlotte Sykes-Wortley, CAMHS Psychological Professions Lead and Jo Jordan, Associate Director of Therapies for CAMHS

[e-mail]

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPSHCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Trained in care co-ordination
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

• Must have substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist within children and young people's mental health services including a wide variety of client groups, across the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Must have substantial experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for children and young peoples' psychological care as a key worker and leader of a multidisciplinary team
• Must have substantial experience of liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
• Must have substantial experience of teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
• Must have substantial experience of providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession
• Must have substantial experience of research and development
• Must have substantial experience of project management of quality and service improvement initiatives

Knowledge & Skills

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical governance
• Doctoral level knowledge of the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour
• Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
• Provide effective clinical leadership and demonstrate operating at a strong level across the 5 dimensions of the Healthcare Leadership Mode

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust