Highly Specialist Clinical in City of London

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Main area Children & Adolescent Services Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Business Development) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 222-LS-CAMHS-850

Site Ealing CAMHS Town London Salary £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive HCAS Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59

West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.

Job overview

If you’re already an 8a in general CAMHS and looking for a different kind of role or a band 7 looking for a development opportunity, this exciting role in Adopt London West may be for you! We are seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist for an innovation project to develop a therapeutically informed social work intervention model across Adopt London’s support teams. The role will be focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of social work practice and provide a high quality clinical psychology offer. There is a strong emphasis on trauma-informed and relationship based practice and this role offers the opportunity to develop and utilise skills outside of direct 1:1 therapy (although there will still be opportunity for this) including; providing case consultation with social work teams and wider networks, deliver training and workshops to support therapeutic thinking and practice, co-delivering therapeutic parenting groups and providing a brief intervention model to families. There will be excellent training opportunities, including Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) and the post will be supervised and supported by the Lead Psychologist for the project. The role is based in Ealing, with some across London travel and hybrid working is supported and encouraged. We’d welcome applicants from previous rounds of recruitment.

Main duties of the job

The team values are a committed, empathic and trauma-informed approach to the work with children, their carers, families and the professional network. Applicants must be keen to facilitate service development and be open to develop new ways of working, demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in their approach to their work and team life and be willing to practice in a collaborative way. Offering consultation to develop reflective thinking and sharing complex psychological knowledge in an accessible way is a key skill within this role. The role will also include delivering training and skills development sessions for social workers, supporting therapeutic parenting approaches, developing psychologically informed plans and collecting and presenting qualitative and quantitative evaluation data. The Adopt London West Team have been trained in Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) and the post holder will be expected to attend this and any available trainings to support the development of an attachment and trauma-informed model of practice, as well as offering a range of other interventions to support a therapeutically informed social work model. This a varied role which offers the opportunity for service development, leadership skills and working with teams/ systems around adopted children, young people and their families. The post holder will be supported and supervised by the Principal Clinical Psychologist.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, 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/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the Child Clinical Psychology Lead
• Experience working with children and young people in a CAMH setting.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of working with other agencies.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with Children in care or adopted children
• Experience of working in Social Services settings
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS (dependent on grade).
• Knowledge and skills in specialist psychological assessment and treatment of specific groups (e.g. care experienced and adopted children)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and families and mental health.
• Knowledge of application of therapeutic models to looked after and adopted children and/or people who have a history of trauma, loss and/or attachment difficulties.

As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.

We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo a pre-employment checks which can take between 4-8 weeks . After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR ).

Please ensure you include email addresses for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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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.

At West London NHS Trust, we want you to support you to build a career you can be proud of and this starts before your first day with us. Our people live our values every day as they deliver, manage and work to improve our services to patients, carers, families and other professionals.

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