CAMHS LIST Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

CAMHS LIST Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Band 8a- 0.8WTE

A compelling opportunity to lead and shape crisis mental health care for children and young people

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Liaison and Intensive Support Team (LIST) at Band 8a level. This role combines advanced psychological practice with clinical leadership, supervision, and service development.

Step into a senior psychological role where your expertisewill shape the delivery of crisis and intensive community mental health care. As a CAMHS LIST Psychologist, you will play a key role in supporting children and young people experiencing significant emotional distress and complex mental health needs, while influencing service development and clinical practice.

Join a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team committed to delivering compassionate, evidence-based, and responsive care at times of crisis.

If you are an experienced and passionate psychologist ready to lead, innovate, and make a meaningful difference, this is your opportunity to thrive.

Main duties of the job

You will work with children and young people presenting with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs, providing specialist psychological input within crisis and intensive support pathways.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver specialist psychological assessments and formulations for children and young people presenting in crisis.

• Provide evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. CBT, DBT-informed,systemicor trauma-informed approaches), tailored to individual need.

• Offer psychological consultation and formulation to the multidisciplinary team to support complex decision-making.

• Provide clinical leadership within LIST, supporting psychologically informed care across the service.

• Work flexibly across community, home, and acute settings, including liaison with acute hospitals.

• Contribute to risk formulation and management of high-risk presentations.

• Supervise, mentor and support junior psychology staff,traineesand MDT colleagues.

• Contribute to the operational and clinical development of the service, including pathway design and improvement initiatives.

• Lead or support audit, serviceevaluationand research activities.

• Work collaboratively with partner agencies to support young people and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions.

About us

At CNWL, our teams are united by a shared commitment to delivering outstanding, patient-centred care. You will be joining an organisation that:

• Invests in your professional and leadership development.

• Supports progression into senior clinical,academicor strategic roles.

• Encourages innovation, servicetransformationand continuous learning.

• Values diversity and promotes an inclusive working culture.

You willbenefitfrom strong leadership support, regular supervision, and opportunities to influence service direction.

About Milton Keynes CAMHS

You will be part of Milton Keynes CAMHS, a growing and innovative service delivering responsive and evidence-based mental health care for children and young people.

• A well-established crisis pathway through the LIST service, with ongoing transformation opportunities.

• Strong partnership working with acute hospitals, GPs, schools, children'sservicesand voluntary sector organisations.

• A collaborative, supportive multidisciplinary team culture.

• A commitment to staff wellbeing,supervisionand professional development.

For further information, please visit the Milton Keynes CAMHS website.Milton KeynesCAMHS :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job description

Job responsibilities

WhatWereLooking For

We are seeking a practitioner who brings:

• Doctoral level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and HCPC registration.

• Extensive CAMHS experience, including work with complex and high-risk presentations.

• Advanced skills in psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention.

• Experience of working within crisis, intensive support, or acute care pathways (desirable).

• Strong leadership capability, with experience influencing multidisciplinary clinical practice.

• Experience in supervision, teaching or mentoring of junior staff and trainees.

• An excellent team player who actively contributes to a supportive, collaborative multidisciplinary culture and role-models psychologically informed practice.

• Strong communicationand consultation skills, including multi-agency working.

• A commitment to service development, qualityimprovementand clinical governance.

• High levelsof resilience,professionalismand a passion for improving outcomes for young people.

Join Us in Making a Difference

If you are ready to bring your psychologicalexpertise, leadership and passion to a role that directly supports young people at their most vulnerable, we would love to hear from you.

Together, we can deliver compassionate, effective care and improve outcomes for young people in crisis.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
• Entry-level qualification in Applied Clinical or Counselling 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.
• Additional training in a specialised area of psychological practice or model of therapy through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice, assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma.
• Completed training course in clinical supervision.

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in CAMHS, or crisis and home treatment teams
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children and young people with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in
• Experience of supervising assistant and trainee psychologists having completed the relevant training.
• Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.
• Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research, audit or service evaluation projects.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological assessments and interventions for children and young people with mental health problems
• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatments
• Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities.
• Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis.
• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.

Skills

Essential

• To be skilled in the administration of psychometric and neuropsychological tests, including those that require complex manipulation of test materials
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
• Ability to develop and use complex multi media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings
• Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these.
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
• Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self

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

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Eaglestone Health Centre, Standing Way

Eaglestone

Milton Keynes

MK6 5AZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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

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