Practitioner Psychologist

NHS; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and caring multi-disciplinary team as a Practitioner Psychologist at Hampshire CAMHS, where you will provide valuable assessments and interventions for children with mental health challenges. This role offers opportunities for personal development, supervision, and contributing to service improvement within a committed NHS Trust.

Benefits

Opportunities for further training

Collaborative working environment

Supportive supervision from senior staff

Qualifications

• Practitioner Psychologist must be registered with the HCPC.
• Experience in community and inpatient settings is required.
• Specialist training in two or more psychological therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality driven assessments and interventions.
• Contribute to neurodevelopmental assessments.
• Develop and implement care plans through teamwork.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Planning

Leadership

Research skills

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology

Tools

SPSS

Excel

Access

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Practitioner Psychologist

The closing date is 20 July 2025

Are you a Practitioner Psychologist seeking to grow your career in CAMHS? We are delighted to be able to offer this post to a dynamic and caring Psychologist with a passion for working with children and families. We are a warm and lively multi disciplinary team who are united in the commitment to provide the highest quality care to the children, young people and families using our service.

At Hampshire CAMHS, we follow a Stepped Care Model which includes Single Point of Access, Early Help, Digital Teams and Community Teams alongside the full range of specialist CAMHS services including forensic, eating disorders, crisis, closer to home and inpatient. We have well developed assessment and treatment pathways to ensure an evidence based and consistent service across CAMHS. You will have scope to develop your own areas of interest either in relation to specific presentations or therapy models.

You will receive regular supervision from a Principal Clinical Psychologist and have opportunities to link in with other child psychologists across the Trust. You will also be part of the county wide psychology team, making innovative contributions to ongoing service improvement and compassionate care, and we work towards ensuring that psychology is at the heart of everything that we do. There are many opportunities to access further training and we have an excellent record in developing our workforce. We work closely with Southampton University offering placements to Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

Main duties of the job

To provide quality driven assessments, psychological formulations and interventions to children and young people experiencing a wide range of complex and severe mental health problems. Delivering a variety of interventions (individual and group) to families and young people in line with their needs and goals.

To be part of the Neurodevelopmental Team by contributing to neurodevelopmental assessments and team discussions.

Working together with other agencies and services to develop and implement interventions and care plans and ensure successful transitions between services.

To be an integral part in developing and delivering clinical care pathways.

Form part of the MDT providing consultation and supervision and developing psychological knowledge within the MDT.

Supporting the development of innovative and effective ways of working and participating in systematic clinical governance.

Supervising and supporting the development of other psychologists and psychological therapists in the team, including trainee clinical psychologists on placement from the University of Southampton.

To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Experience

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Demonstrate specialist experience gained post-qualification of working as an applied psychologist with evidence of having received a substantial amount of clinical supervision (normally in the region of approximately 50 hours).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience or demonstrable knowledge of working with the particular client group served by the team/service.
• Knowledge of guidance and legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• High level of knowledge and skills in neuropsychology and evidence of further practice and/or training since qualification.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
• Lived experience of mental health issues

Additional Criteria

• Communication/Relationship skills:
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Analytical & Judgement skills:
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulation and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Planning & Organisational skills:
• Ability to work within a large geographical area effectively, managing travel arrangements and using creative working solutions.
• Ability to plan and manage a complex work load with competing demands.
• Ability to plan and implement projects
• People Management/Leadership/Resources
• Skills inclinical supervision of others.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to use electronic clinical record systems.
• Experience of software e.g. SPSS, EXCEL and ACCESS

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata