Practitioner Psychologist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust seeks a CAMHS Specialist or Practitioner Psychologist to enhance mental health services for children and adolescents. This role requires delivering specialist assessments, formulating treatment plans, and engaging with diverse communities. Applicants should hold appropriate qualifications and be registered as Practitioner Psychologists, with relevant experience in mental health interventions. This is a full-time position offering a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

NHS employee discounts

Counselling services

Childcare vouchers

Qualifications

• Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology accepted by the HCPC.
• Registered with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience in clinical supervision across a range of client needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments and interventions for children in the Southwark Neurodevelopmental Service.
• Contribute to team delivery of psychological services to diverse local communities.
• Lead service development and quality assurance in clinical care.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Evidence-based psychological intervention

Culturally competent service delivery

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

Job summary

Southwark CAMHS are seeking to recruit a CAMHS Specialist or Practitioner Psychologist. Within the Neurodevelopmental Service, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team to contribute to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. You will be responsible for your own clinical caseload and you will be involved in assessments (including diagnostic assessments for ADHD ), care planning and offering interventions for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions.

The complexity of our clinical population necessitates a broad range of professional perspectives and skills, and therefore we encourage open and eclectic discussion that is evidence and theory-informed, during assessment, formulation and planning of support. We also believe strongly that working with this community requires engagement with issues of social justice and human rights, and that our clinical work should be informed by these ideas.

The service provides a range of interventions including: innovative group parenting interventions, group interventions for children and young people addressing anxiety and emotional dysregulation, a neurodiversity psychoeducation programme, Positive Behaviour Supports, individual therapy informed by CBT and other modalities, art therapy, systemic therapy, and pharmacological intervention. You will have the opportunity to develop skills in the delivery of these interventions through training, and group and individual supervision.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical service within the Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS).
• To provide assessment, formulation and evidence based treatment for children with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health conditions.
• To help provide a psychological framework to inform the multidisciplinary care of children under the care of CAMHS. To support multi-disciplinary colleagues in providing interventions and support to the young people and their families.
• To contribute to assuring service quality by using specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent neurodevelopment and mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions to manage complex cases.
• To use and maintain high standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.
• To contribute to training, research and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of child and adolescent mental disorders.
• To contribute to the leadership of the service through working closely with senior colleagues to quality assure best practice and the implementation of NICE guidelines across teams.
• To contribute to service development.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Details Date posted

23 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum inclusive of HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

334-CLI-7311353

Job locations

Sunshine House

27 Peckham Rd

London

SE5 8UH

Job description Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Southwark Neurodevelopmental Service for working with complex mental health difficulties.

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.

To work as an independent and autonomous professional within the guidelines of your professional accrediting body and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

To act as care co-ordinator, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the Southwark Neurodevelopmental Service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

KR 3 Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior colleague according to accrediting body and Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS, or relevant accrediting body, and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

To comply with the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency, or equivalent from other professional body and ensure professional development in line with these.

To adhere to the BPSs Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.

KR10 General

To travel to schools, home visits and other community settings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as challenging behaviour, abuse etc) and to support others involved in such situations.

To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics within the overall Job Plan.

Job description Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the Southwark Neurodevelopmental Service for working with complex mental health difficulties.

To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.

To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.

To work as an independent and autonomous professional within the guidelines of your professional accrediting body and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

To act as care co-ordinator, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the Southwark Neurodevelopmental Service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.

To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

KR 3 Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior colleague according to accrediting body and Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS, or relevant accrediting body, and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

To comply with the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics and Standards of Proficiency, or equivalent from other professional body and ensure professional development in line with these.

To adhere to the BPSs Professional Practice Guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.

KR10 General

To travel to schools, home visits and other community settings as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as challenging behaviour, abuse etc) and to support others involved in such situations.

To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late clinics within the overall Job Plan.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. For example, Clinical psychologist: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent; Counselling psychologist: Doctorate or MSc and PG Diploma in Counselling Psychology
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience
• First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.

Desirable

• oDiploma level qualification in individual psychological therapies, e.g. CBT, a CYP IAPT diploma programme

Experience Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions
• Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological intervention with children and parents with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
• Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases. Experience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies

Knowledge & Skills Essential

• Specialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy relevant to children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training
• Skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes
• oAbility to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Entry-level qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level additional training) that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. For example, Clinical psychologist: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent; Counselling psychologist: Doctorate or MSc and PG Diploma in Counselling Psychology
• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist or First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV, or first level qualification in OT, social work, or equivalent with related CAMHS experience
• First level qualification in art, play, drama or music therapy with related experience in the psychological aspects of caring for children and adolescent with mental health problems/needs, developmental/ learning disability problems.

Desirable

• oDiploma level qualification in individual psychological therapies, e.g. CBT, a CYP IAPT diploma programme

Experience Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people with mental health conditions
• Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological intervention with children and parents with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
• Experience of working with, and addressing issues of, diversity
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision across a range of client needs.
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary networks in managing complex cases. Experience of offering consultation to other colleagues and agencies

Knowledge & Skills Essential

• Specialist knowledge concerning the needs of children with mental health problems and their families
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy relevant to children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their families and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training
• Skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes
• oAbility to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sunshine House

27 Peckham Rd

London

SE5 8UH

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sunshine House

27 Peckham Rd

London

SE5 8UH

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)