# Band 7 CAMHS Clinical Psychologist - Bristol

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Trust Partnership NHS Trust
- **Location:** Bath NHS House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Psychologist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover post)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Days to be agreed, but must include Monday or Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-11T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25T10:50:59.009Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Somerset/Bristol/Avon_Wiltshire_Mental_Health_Partnership_NHS_Trust/CAMHS_Clinical_Psychologist/CAMHS_Clinical_Psychologist-v8283442
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8283442?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.awp.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds.
- Ability to work autonomously, and organise and prioritise workload
- .Experience of assessing and managing young people who are suicidal and young people who present a risk to self and others

**Desirable**

- Experience of Clinical supervision/consultation – junior colleagues or other staff

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post qualification of delivering evidence based therapies to young people and families in CAMHS
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and ability to contribute to team meetings and processes.

**Desirable**

- Experience of providing specialist assessments/interventions eg Autism assessments (ADOS), Eating Disorders or specialist CBT

### Qualification

**Essential**

- Doctoral clinical Psychology qualification or equivalent
- Maintenance of appropriate professional registration

## Documents

- [financial support & discounts (pdf, 919.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2794)
- [value of the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 279.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2795)
- [inclusive top 50 uk employers list (pdf, 78.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2439)
- [job description - band 7 psychologist (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10600360)

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