Job requirements
Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds.
- Skills
Ability to work autonomously, and organise and prioritise workload
- Skills
.Experience of assessing and managing young people who are suicidal and young people who present a risk to self and others
- Experience
Post qualification of delivering evidence based therapies to young people and families in CAMHS
- Experience
Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and ability to contribute to team meetings and processes.
- Qualification
Doctoral clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent
- Qualification
Maintenance of appropriate professional registration
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Experience of Clinical supervision/consultation – junior colleagues or other staff
- Experience
Experience of providing specialist assessments/interventions eg Autism assessments (ADOS), Eating Disorders or specialist CBT
Job overview
We have an opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to join our experienced and established multidisciplinary Community CAMHS Team.
You will have be qualified and registered as a Clinical Psychologist. You will also have experience of working with children and young people, preferably within a community CAMHS services
East and Central Bristol is an area of rich diversity and significant disparities in health, wealth and access. We are committed to working in a manner which is inclusive and anti-oppressive, and invite applications from staff who share these values.
Main duties of the job
The key elements of the role include, but are not limited to:
Completing assessments of young people with complex emotional and mental health needs;
Completing 1:1 interventions for a variety of clinical presentations, drawing on techniques including: CBT-informed work, DBT-informed work, systemic work and creative therapies;
Care and safety planning, in partnership with young people, families and carers, and other professionals;
Multi-professional and multi-agency working, including close working with social care, schools, primary care and acute hospital trusts;
Proactively safeguarding young people who may be experiencing abuse or who are at risk of abuse;
Utilising your own clinical supervision, reflective practice and caseload management to work in an evidence-based manner and in a way that is sustainable for your own wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a clinical psychology service to the specified Team/Service
To assess and treat a specialist workload of clients and maintain associated records
Participate in CPD and other developmental activities
Undertake R & D and clinical audit
Clinically supervise Assistant Psychologists, other professionals and trainee Clinical Psychologists
Please see attached Job Description for more details, or contact Becky Davies (Clinical Service Manager) on 0117 340 6800 to discuss further.
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.
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This advert is for Band 7 CAMHS Clinical Psychologist - Bristol with Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust in Bath, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover post). The application deadline is 11 Oct 2026.
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