Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Some working from home alongside clinic based settings)
- Job ref
- 186-1378-25-MH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Portland Street
- Town
- Nottingham / Nottinghamshire
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b
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Job overview
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Band 8b (30 hours) Community CAMHS Intellectual Disability Team (CAMHs ID) Nottingham/Nottinghamshire
We have an exciting opportunity as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team to shape and develop services for children and young people with intellectual disabilities and complex mental health needs. In addition to providing specialist assessment and intervention, you will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and consultation to a skilled team of clinicians, while also contributing to service development, quality improvement, and strategic planning.
You will work closely with families, schools, social care, and other health professionals to deliver psychologically informed care that makes a real difference. The post holder is required to hold a post graduate doctorate in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS and have Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration. Additional post qualification experience within a CAMHS ID or relevant provision is essential. For employees of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust secondment opportunities will also be considered. Post holders will also join an integrated, friendly and supportive group of 27 Psychologists working across the Nottingham City and conurbation multi-disciplinary CAMHs. There are good opportunities for CPD, strong mechanisms for support and good links with the DClinpsy courses at Trent, Sheffield and Leicester University.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a member of a Specialist CAMH Intellectual Disability multi-disciplinary service, which serves the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas. Working with individuals, parents and/ or carers; liaison with a broad range of other disciplines and agencies, including health, education, social services, voluntary agencies and care systems will be key aspects of this post. The post holder will also provide support through consultation and joint working with staff within the team and offer supervision to other CAMHS psychology colleagues.
The post holder will form part of the senior leadership team within the CAMHS Intellectual Disability Service. The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To lead a specialist psychology service offering direct and indirect clinical psychology provision to address the complex needs of children and young people up to 18 and their families in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County in conjunction with other partner agencies and services.
The post holder will be a member of a Specialist CAMH Intellectual Disability multi-disciplinary service, which serves the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas. Working with individuals, parents and/ or carers; liaison with a broad range of other disciplines and agencies, including health, education, social services, voluntary agencies and care systems will be key aspects of this post. The post holder will also provide support through consultation and joint working with staff within the team and offer supervision to other CAMHS psychology colleagues.
The post holder will form part of the senior leadership team within the CAMHS Intellectual Disability Service. The post holder works autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post graduate doctorate in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Current Registration with the HCPC
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Driving license and car
- • Maintenance of Trust Essential Training
Training
Essential criteria
- • Evidence for post-qualification specialist training relevant to CAMHS.
- • Advanced knowledge, experience and expertise in at least one specialist area of clinical practise gained though post-qualification specialist training and supervised practise (e.g. Psychotherapy, neuropsychology, Attachment Therapy, Clinical Supervision)
- • Cognitive Assessment e.g. psychometric testing.
Desirable criteria
- Further relevant post qualification training including : • Dyadic Developmental Psychology.
- Further relevant post qualification training including: Systemic Therapy
- Further relevant post qualification training including: CBT/DBT
- Further relevant post qualification training including: • Psychological models of assessing and treating PTSD e.g. EMDR
- Further relevant post qualification training including: • Positive Behaviour Support
- Further relevant post qualification training including: • Theraplay©
- • Further training in the assessment of neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities e.g. ASD
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of assessment of children/ young people & their families presenting with a broad range of mental health needs including developmental trauma together with neurodiversity such as autism and/ or intellectual disability - where there may be multiple contributing factors to understanding their presentation & informing further treatment.
- • Experience in the specific assessment and formulation of both child and adult attachment.
- • Experience in assessment and management of clinical risk.
- • Experience of working within teams as part of a MDT approach to delivering interventions / therapy.
- • Experience of offering a consultation model to supporting the MDT and wider network around the child.
- • Experience of effective multi-disciplinary, multi-agency working.
- • Provision of clinical supervision and training to psychologists and practitioners from other professional groups
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of delivering structured group programme.
- • Experience of staff training.
- • Experience of clinical audit and/or service evaluation
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Detailed knowledge of a range of models of assessment, formulation, management and treatment of mental health difficulties across a broad age range 0-18 years.
- • Knowledge of systemic approaches to working with Families / care systems.
- • Knowledge of assessment and evidence-based treatment of trauma and how developmental trauma may present in young people with intellectual disability.
- • Presentation and teaching skills.
- • Knowledge of the Safeguarding protocol.
- • Knowledge of the assessment and evidence-based treatment of mental health difficulties relevant to Community CAMHS and across a broad age range 0-18 years.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of conference presentation / teaching
- • Publications/ research experience.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Specialist skills in establishing and developing therapeutic relationships with clients with complex clinical presentations and ability to make adaptations when working with individuals with intellectual disability.
- • To communicate in skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment options of clients.
- • Research and Audit skills to evidence the efficacy of specialist interventions, in conjunction with Team Leads and to evaluate patient experience including the development of appropriate outcomes measure for the service.
- • Appropriate IT skills
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
- Lia Bealing
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01158440520
- Additional information
Yvette Ronan, Clinical Psychologist 0115 8656235 or Barbara McGrath, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Professional Lead for CAMHS Psychology 0115 9560866
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