Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Adolescent Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Business Development)
- Hours
- Part time - 26.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-764
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing CAMHS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Pro rata Inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/02/2026 17:00
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1-year fixed term maternity cover Specialist Clinical Psychologist (0.7WTE) to join a highly regarded MHST in Ealing. We are looking for a passionate practitioner, who is keen to support an innovative early intervention team that provide direct interventions for mild-to-moderate low mood, anxiety and behaviours that challenge, into schools; as well as wider whole school approach interventions, such as group work, workshops, wellbeing assemblies and classroom interventions.
Our team has grown significantly over the last two years, and we place a lot of emphasis on wellbeing and creating an environment where people want to stay and develop. We have a lot of positive feedback from staff about the team, and continue to value their contributions and feedback to further support the development of the team.
Locally and nationally, the team is well-regarded. We were recently invited by the Department for Education to attend a ministerial event with the Education Secretary in one of our schools, where an announcement was to be made about the expansion of MHSTs nationally. We have also been contacted by the national MHST team and more recently the Mayor’s children and young Londoners team to share good practice about our innovative and unique Autism/Learning disability offer in mainstream schools.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you may be balancing clinical, supervisory, leadership and service development duties.
The main focus is to:
• Lead on and directly provide comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Offer one to one and group interventions
• Offer Clinical Supervision to team members, which may include Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and trainees or staff in other psychological professions e.g. CBT trainees, and wellbeing practitioners
• Work with school staff and cultures to develop school environments that are more conducive to supporting better emotional health and wellbeing.
• Work with parents/carers to raise awareness of the mental and emotional wellbeing needs of children and young people and strategies to protect and promote these.
• Take part in meaningful service development and improvement projects for the team
• Join the West London CAMHS psychology team as a representative of your profession.
If you are interested in working with schools and want to help shape new models of evidence-based support for children and young people, this job could be for you!
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 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by 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
qualification
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or equivalent if trained overseas.
- Eligible to work as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical / Counselling) as approved by the Health Care Professions Council.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post-doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
- Clinical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
Exeprience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across a range of care settings, (e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in patient settings).
- 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.
- Experience of working with children, adolescents and their families
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision/reflective practice.
- Experience of working with evidence-based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with other agencies.
- Experience of the application of clinical / counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of assessment and intervention around Neurodiversity
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and skills in specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment with children and young people with neuro-developmental difficulties
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. children with challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Roya Afsharzadegan
- Job title
- MHST Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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