Developmental Clinical Psychologist

Cornwall Partnership; Penzance; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

We are recruiting a Developmental Clinical Psychologist for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The post is a Band 7–8a development role within West CAMHS, based in Penzance/Kerrier, offering coaching to reach Band 8a over 18–24 months and a permanent full-time contract.

The role involves providing specialist assessment and therapy to children and adolescents, with a strong emphasis on family involvement and multidisciplinary collaboration within Community CAMHS settings.

Qualifications

• Experience as a psychologist with children in clinical or community settings.
• Experience with young children with emotional/behavioural difficulties.
• Evidence of supervision training and supervision practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide a qualified clinical psychology service to children and adolescents and their families with complex psychological problems.
• Deliver highly specialist assessment and therapy while advising non-psychologist colleagues.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the team’s policies.

Skills

Child psychology experience

Emotional difficulties

Behavioural difficulties

Supervision experience

Education

Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registered Practitioner

Job description

Main area Developmental Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Developmental post - band 7 to 8a. Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 201-26-876

Site West CAMHS bases Town Redruth and Penzance bases. Salary £49,387 - £64,750 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/10/2026

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

It’s an exciting time to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Cornwall, where your clinical expertise, training and high level of specialist experience are recognised with a genuine commitment to your career development and continued learning.

We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join our West Cornwall CAMHS team, based in Penzance and Kerrier. We are open to applicants from Clinical Psychologists who feel ready for a Band 8a role, however we are also very happy to consider applicants who wish to consider a Developmental role. Our developmental role posts enable clinicians to start with us in a Band 7 job role, and receive coaching and supervision to enable them to achieve competence as an 8a psychologist over an 18 - 24 month period.

Main duties of the job

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to children and adolescent and their families with complex psychological problems, across all sectors of care: Proving Highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on client’s psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience as a psychologist, working with children in either clinical or community settings.
• Experience of working with young children with emotional/behavioural difficulties
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Evidence of undertaking training in supervision.

Training and Development

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Evidence of undertaking training in supervision.

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The Health Jobs UK website has jobs from numerous employers, within health and care across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute medical, surgical and specialist services to a population of around 500,000 which can increase significantly during the busy holiday periods.