Transition Worker- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust seeks a Transition Worker - Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to support young people transitioning from CAMHS to Adult Services. The role involves collaboration with families and professionals, enhancing mental health outcomes while navigating the adult system. A doctoral qualification in psychology and experience with complex mental health cases are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with young people 16-25 and their families.
• Specialist psychological assessment and treatment experience.
• Minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate care for young people in transition.
• Contribute to transition protocol updates between services.
• Foster excellent relationships between CAMHS and AMHS.

Skills

System wide working

Communication

Leadership

Engagement with young people

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology

Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council

Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

Job description

Go back South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Transition Worker- Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

The closing date is 24 July 2025

This is one of two Transition Worker posts based within our Tier 3 Team at Merton CAMHS. The focus is on supporting young people to transition from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Services. The post holder will also support families and work alongside teams and liaise with wider organizations ensuring wider system collaboration to wrap around support for our young people.

These roles have been developed to ensure our young people moving from CAMHS services into adult services are sufficiently prepared and supported to navigate adult provision and networks, whilst maintaining their progress, promoting independence and enhancing social and mental health outcomes.

Main duties of the job

It is acknowledged that the transition from child to adult services creates risks for young people who may fall through the systems due to not having the right support. This can result in poor mental health and social outcomes, leading to loss of human potential and increased burden on health and social care services over a lifespan.

This post will directly inform and update Transition Protocol between CAMHS and AMHS based upon the latest evidence of best practice. The post holder will also be responsible for supporting teams and provide training, where necessary, to educate and skill up professionals and stakeholders in the needs of those young people moving from CAMHS into adult services. Core to the role with be ensuring excellent collaboration between the young person and families to support the young person's journey across services.

We are looking for an individual who has a strong track record in system wide working and communication across teams, who demonstrates excellent leadership qualities and someone who is inspirational and engaging with young people, staff and external partners.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Location

Merton Tier 3 and SPA teams are based at Birches Hose, Mitcham a beautiful building overlooking the cricket green and close to local shops and transport links. Both are friendly, supportive multidisciplinary teams who enjoy close working relationships.

Job responsibilities

• Enhance awareness of transition issues, challenges and services available to young people
• Foster excellent working relationships between Children and Adolescent and Adult Mental Health services.
• Join a multi-disciplinary team at one of five Tier 3 CAMHS locations
• Promote mental health wellbeing and physical outcome
• Promote stability in education and work
• Reduce episodes of crisis
• Agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels
• Co-ordinate care for children, young people and families on their caseload who are in process of transition
• Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures
• Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures
• Contribute to the review and update of protocols for transition between CAMHS and AMHS services
• Contribute to screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experiences

Person Specification

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
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with 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 working with young people who have experienced severe, complex and long-term mental health problems
• Experience of working with young people 16-25 years old and their families
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision while working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Director of Psychology
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Training & Qualification

• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
• Registered with the Health & Care Professions Council
• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
• Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£35,694 to £39,743 a yearper annum inclusive of Outer HCAs