Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Site Springfield University Hospital Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 28/10/2026

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work with young people and families in the borough of Wandsworth who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of the CAMHS provision provided into Wandsworth Youth Justice Service (YJS).

The postholder will be joining a passionate team in an established and valued role which will contribute to the development and delivery of services that seek to transform mental health delivery for marginalised young people involved in or at risk of offending.

The role offers a balance of direct clinical work, specialist consultation, training delivery, service development and supervision, and is embedded within Wandsworth Youth Justice Service. Candidates will also have access to relevant specialist training as per their development plan.

The service is informed by AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment), trauma-informed, systemic and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be supporting children who present with a range of needs and will be responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions, as well as consultation, training and reflective practice to school staff alongside co-ordinating multi-agency networks based on psychological formulations. The post holder will support and co-lead on the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRUs

The PRU-CAMHS team have close links with Wandsworth Youth Justice Service CAMHS team and the wider Wandsworth CAMHS provision and will be supervised by a trust Professional Lead with responsibility for Wandsworth Pupil Referral Unit CAMH Services.

Working for our organisation

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

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. T he 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 as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

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 varietybenefits 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will support the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRU sites. The appointee will offer trauma-informed assessment, intervention, consultation, and training to young people and staff across the PRU and partner agencies.

The role requires advanced skills in psychological assessment and formulation, with an understanding of how to incorporate challenging behaviour, additional learning needs, neurodivergence, and a range of social and contextual information within a trauma-informed framework, as well as the ability to share this and recommendations with other multi-agency colleagues.

The appointee will also work closely with young people’s families and their wider networks, which includes partnership agencies such as children’s social care, youth work provisions, and youth justice service. This aspect of the role is vital in ensuring appropriate linked-up working to contextually safeguard young people and their families.

This role requires the appointee to work within a multiagency context and hold skills in autonomously performing their role in a school/college setting whilst providing an offer of consultation and training across the Francis Barber provision.

Training & Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• Further training in a recognised evidence based psychological therapy.

Experience

• Consolidated 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.
• Consolidated 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.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
• Experience of working with children who present with complex social and contextual needs, including those with social services/multi-agency involvement, in contact with the Youth Justice System, and/or excluded from mainstream education or S/Care CAMHS (e.g. YJS CAMHS service and/or PRU CAMHS team (primary or secondary).
• Experience working with in partnership with local authorities, other statutory services (e.g. YOT)
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
• Experience of conducting cognitive assessments and supervising other staff conducting cognitive assessments.

At South West London St Georges Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion.

As part of the Trust's commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace:

• BME (Evolve) Staff Network
• DiverseAbility
• Mental Health Staff Forum
• Women's Staff Network
• LGBTQIA+

We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and has signed the Armed Forces Covenant.

We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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