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CAMHS Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
We are looking for an enthusiastic 8a Clinical Psychologist to join our innovative multi-disciplinary Emotional & Behavioural Team (EBT2) in Bedford CAMHS.
EB2 offers a wide range of therapeutic interventions to young people aged 5-18 and their families. We have close links to schools and community services. The role involves completing assessments and completing individual and group interventions.
We are a team that prides itself on creative, innovative and evidenced based approaches to our work with service users and carers and value a supportive and reflective culture in the work environment. The team is part of Bedfordshire CAMHS which is a large, dynamic and successful CAMHs service comprising of 2 emotional and behavioural teams, a LAC team, a CAMHs schools team, a parent-infant psychotherapy team, a paediatric team, a GP team, an adolescent mental health team, a crisis team and an eating disorders service and Neurodevelopment Team. We also have embedded workers in Early Help, CDC and social care.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide a specialist service within CAMHS to children, young people and their families in the North of Bedfordshire and will be based in our CAMHS hub in Bedford. The successful post-holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post-holder will be expected to hold a high degree of autonomy and to contribute to service development projects as well as line management and clinical supervision of other team members.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information and an in depth job details and responsibilities please see attached JD and PS
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient and community.
- Experience of helping to plan care with other members of an MDT including setting tasks for assistant and trainee psychologists.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families, and the ability to demonstrate specialist training/experience including having practiced as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months and having received regular supervision from an appropriately qualified Psychologist; or met alternative criteria agreed by the Consultant Lead
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal hostility and abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of MDT and Inter agency collaboration
Desirable
- Experience of completing neurodevelopmental and cognitive assessments and then offering intervention.
- Experience in using client feedback Outcome Measures to improve quality
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge and experience of working with children with mental health issues.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and a range of therapeutic models.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and national policy in relation to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice, and evidence base for specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. ASD, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (and / or eligibility for chartered status as a Clinical Psychologist), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society and registered with HCPC.
Desirable
- Training in delivering supervision
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This advert is for CAMHS Clinical Psychologist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Jun 2026.
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