Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-8085027-AZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birches House
- Town
- London, Mitcham
- Salary
- £75,328 - £86,114 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/07/2026
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist / Child Psychotherapist / Systemic Family Psychotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
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
This role is an exciting opportunity to lead an established specialist CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) service in South West London and St George’s NHS Trust. The team is a multidisciplinary team working with young people and their families across Sutton, Merton, Wandsworth, Kingston and Richmond. It provides intensive, evidence-based therapy for young people who struggle with high levels of emotion dysregulation, self-harm and other self-destructive behaviours in an outpatient setting.
Training in Prolonged Exposure therapy for trauma will be offered to the successful applicant.
This team is a well established, energetic and dedicated. It has built strong relationships with other CAMHS services across the boroughs and has close links with other DBT teams working with young people across the South London Partnership.
Main duties of the job
We seek an able and committed CAMHS professional with DBT training to provide high quality clinical and professional leadership in working with young people and families. CAMHS services in South West London have a positive and supportive culture, and the post holder will join a vibrant group of clinicians within the DBT team, and with the wider Psychology and Psychotherapies group.
Applicants will have:
· Training and experience delivering DBT
· Experience in working with children and young people in a variety of community settings, particularly with those presenting with complex high risk, emotional dysregulation and self-harm
· Experience in working in multi-disciplinary settings and accustomed to interagency working
· Knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Procedure
· Experience in working with trauma and disordered eating presentations is desirable
· Experience with service evaluation or research is desirable
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr Oliver Schauman, Consultant Clinical Psychologist [email protected], and/or Lucy Trotman (Team manager) [email protected] to discuss the post.
Working for our organisation
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 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 variety of benefits 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.
About our location:
This post will be based at Birches House,
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychological therapies service including clinical psychology, child psychotherapy and systemic family psychotherapy to children, young
people and their families/carers within the designated clinical service area
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychology and psychotherapy (P&P) staff and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment by agreement with the CAMHS Psychology and Psychotherapies lead
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service area, working with the CAMHS P&P lead to coordinate psychological assessment, treatment and therapy resources across the teams
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the designated clinical service area
• Practice clinically within a designated setting, and by example will uphold high standards of psychological and psychotherapeutic assessment, treatment and care.
• Be a source of advice and guidance in relation to risk management and safeguarding.
• Be responsible for the clinical governance structures that support and guide multi-disciplinary colleagues providing psychological therapies in community settings in designated service areas. These governance structures include professional and clinical supervision, PADR processes, CPD and training needs, and recording standards.
• Directly provide clinical supervision to psychology and/or psychotherapy colleagues, and professional supervision to colleagues from a range of psychology and psychotherapy disciplines. Some supervision may be provided across borough boundaries.
• Have a significant role in ensuring that the quality of child mental health work provided in the community is reflected both in clinical records and in data collected that will include the CAMHS minimum data set and CYP IAPT measures. It will be important to contribute to efforts to maximise the benefits of the electronic clinical record system that the service has adopted, and to ensure that clinicians record risk in accordance with policy and guidance.
• Provide coordinated service leadership in designated areas in conjunction with Clinical Leads and Team Managers, advising on service developments.
• Coordinate with Team Managers and Clinical Leads in managing clinical performance concerns.
• Work to promote synergy and connection between local authority, third sector and health services so as to foster joined-up care and to maximise the benefit of available mental health resources for
children, young people and their carers.
• Promote service user involvement in shaping services.
• Promote equality of access to healthcare and awareness of how social difference can influence treatment outcome and service user experience.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, or Qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, or Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist, and
- An appropriate professional registration (e.g. as a Practitioner Psychologist under the Health Care Professions Council, or as a Child Psychotherapist with the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, or with UKCP via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy).
- Intensive DBT training.
Desirable criteria
- 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.
- Accreditation with the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist or psychotherapist including experience of working at a highly specialist level with children and young people with a wide range of mental and behavioural disorders, including complex trauma and disordered eating.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of service development and leadership.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing psychology or psychotherapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of working with mental health needs in multiple cultural contexts.
- Experience of managing the clinical performance of staff.
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
- Lucy Trotman
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07508114921
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