Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7881294-AZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tolworth Hospital - Woodroffe House
- Town
- Surrey
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/04/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
We are currently recruiting for a full time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in our Richmond Getting Help Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the London Borough of Kingston.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist with experience of working in CAMHS to work in a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team to undertake assessments, and deliver interventions with children, young people, their families and the wider network.
Kingston Getting Help is a newly established service that supports children, young people and their families with moderate mental health difficulties. Our multi-disciplinary service is made up of disciplines including psychology, family therapy, CBT therapists and psychotherapy.
We have a range of CAMHS services within the Trust including Getting More Help/Tier 3 CAMHS, Mental Health in Schools Teams, an Adolescent Outreach Team, an adolescent unit, Deaf CAMHS services, Learning Disabilities and Youth Offending CAMHS teams as well as a DBT service and a range of eating disorders services.
As well as regular individual supervision to support your development, we offer a number of opportunities for support and training.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Carry out high quality assessments;
- Provide evidence-based treatment;
- Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels;
- Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload;
- Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures;
- Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
- Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience.
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 Tolworth Hospital
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
The Kingston Child and Adolescent Mental Health Getting Help service (Tier 2 CAMHS) provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.
The service also includes a Single Point of Access team which manages all referrals for children and adolescents in Kingston and Richmond boroughs where there are concerns about emotional heath/mental health difficulties. The Kingston Getting Help Service and the SPA work in close collaboration.
Kingston Getting Help is a multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families presenting to the service with moderate mental health problems.
The Community CAMHS Directorate is located within South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services
to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond as well as providing a range of specialist services to a set of wider, regional and national catchment areas.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
- Where an applicant is in the final stages of training and has not yet obtained registration, an applicant will only be made an offer conditional upon successful registration within a time-scale that is specified
Desirable criteria
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading case reviews
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
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
- Davinia Davidson
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02035133951
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