Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join its CAMHS Adolescent Team. The role involves providing specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions for young people aged 11-18 experiencing mental health challenges. The successful candidate will be part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary team and contribute to service development initiatives. This position offers flexible working arrangements and a supportive environment for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous pay package

Flexible working arrangements

Access to training courses

Cycle-to-work and lease car scheme

Wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience in providing evidence-based clinical psychology services.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Skills in audit and service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and intervention to clients.
• Consult on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologists.
• Coordinate care for a defined number of young people.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Therapeutic intervention

Consultative skills

Research skills

Supervision of junior staff

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to join our CAMHS services as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist within our Adolescent Team.

The Adolescent Team is a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic interventions for young people between the ages of 11-18 years and their families. The young people we meet experience significant and acute mental ill health, including those who may be at risk of inpatient admission, and require a rapid response, intensive intervention, crisis and risk management. The postholder will provide brief and long-term therapeutic work as well consultation within the team and to partner agencies and supervision of junior staff. The successful candidate will utilise research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service.

Bromley CAMHS are passionate about working with children, young people and their families, and are dedicated to providinghigh-qualityandcaringcommunity mental healthcare services thatimproveoutcomesandbuild resiliencein community relationships.

The successful applicant will join a vibrant & experiencedmulti-disciplinary CAMHS team providing a variety of evidence-based interventionsfor children & young people presenting with a range of mental health difficulties. There is a culture of joint, cross-discipline working in the team, which provides an environment for learning and development in addition to formal CPD opportunities.

Main responsibilities

• Providing a clinical psychology service to clients of the Bromley CAMHS Adolescent Team, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers and providing supervision to clinical psychologists/psychological therapists and trainees.
• Providing initial assessment and care coordination for a defined number of young people whose care is provided by the Adolescent Team.
• Offering supervision to more junior staff.
• Working autonomously within professional guidelines, consistent with CYP-IAPT principles and within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to overall service delivery as required.
• Utilising research skills to lead on audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About Oxleas and Staff Development

Oxleas is committed to making changes that have a positive impact for all staff but particularly BAME staff, disabled staff, and LGBT+ staff. Building a Fairer Oxleas for all (BAFO) is a programme of work involving frontline staff, senior managers, and Board members in making positive changes to how it feels to work for the Trust. It has focussed on making recruitment and career progression fairer and improving cultural understanding. It has developed resources and there are several staff networks; BAMEx; LGBTQ+; Disability; Mental Health Staff; Woman’s Network's.

The Trust is dedicated to ensuring that staff feel valued and offer benefits including:

• Generous pay (outer-London weighting), pensions scheme (life assurance) and leave package
• Agile/remote and flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job sharing, hot-desking and/or working at designated hubs
• Access to internal training courses (such as Quality Improvement and healthcare leadership)

Benefits include a cycle-to-work and lease car scheme, electric vehicle charging points, funding for school holiday childcare. Staff are able to access wellbeing services (e.g. counselling, advice and guidance) & vibrant staff networks including BAME, LGBTQIA+ & lived experience.

We are constantly looking at ways to improve & innovate our CAMHS services & have committed to providing all staff with dedicated time to participate and/or lead in service development initiatives through the Trust Quality Improvement (Qi) framework.

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025