# CAMHS Clinician - CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Whittington Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Whittington Health NHS Trust
- **Location:** The Whittington Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term contract for 12 months)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week (0.5 WTE)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-07T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23T11:00:49.996Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Whittington_Health_NHS_Trust/Clinical_PsychologyCounselling_Psychology/Clinical_PsychologyCounselling_Psychology-v8264293
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264293?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.whittington.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Clinician (Clinical psychologists, Counselling psychologists)

- WTE sessions within Islington CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team.

We are looking for proactive, creative and highly skilled colleagues to join a dynamic multi disciplinary neurodevelopmental diagnostic service for CYP 5-18 years. The successful applicant(s) will be passionate about promoting a holistic, neuro-affirmative, strength based approach to the process of assessment and diagnosis of autism and ADHD, and associated conditions, and reaching vulnerable families in our borough.

### Main duties of the job

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Borough

Islington is a wonderfully diverse borough. Despite its relatively small size it is densely populated with a resident child population of 40,000, which is about 20% of the total. The borough is a varied community with extremes of affluence and poverty. There is a broad cultural mix from a range of ethnic minority groups.

The Post

The post will involve leading and contributing to multi disciplinary assessments of autism, adhd and associated/overlapping conditions. The NDT provides holistic assessments within a strong multi disciplinary framework which includes clinical psychology, psychiatry, paediatrics, speech and language therapy, family therapy and occupational therapy. Other opportunities could include: supporting and supervising of junior staff; contributing to the programme of post diagnostic support for parents and YP; contributing to service developments and Quality improvement projects.

### 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 & Abilities

**Essential**

- Able to confidently and competently take a generic developmental history.
- Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication
- Skills in the assessment of clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.
- Strong report writing skills; able to use Word and Excel and analyse/present basic data
- Significant cognitive assessment competence

### Knowledge & Experience

**Essential**

- Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
- Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting rotas, peer support, training and skills development
- Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records
- Experience of working with children in a mental health or neurodevelopmental context.
- Experience of screening for neurodevelopmental conditions.

### Education / Qualifications

**Essential**

- Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in a core profession and appropriate registration (e.g. HCPC)
- ADOS training

## Documents

- [camhs mission statement (pdf, 200.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10578454)
- [whittington probationary policy (pdf, 298.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=621)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10637388)

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