Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Are you qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist this year and wanting to join a caring team, who are experienced in supporting newly qualified psychologists in their development?

Are you currently working as a band 7 and looking to progress your career, or an experienced 8a wanting to take on new challenges, expand leadership skills or develop specialisms? If so, we want to hear from you.

We are recruiting for a Clinical Psychologist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) on the Isle of Wight. Psychology sits at the heart of the service and reaches into all aspects of service delivery, working alongside mental health nurses and practitioners, youth offending practitioners, family and creative therapists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and senior leads.

Your role sits within the Psychology and Psychological Therapies specialism within the CAMHS Team. We pride ourselves in delivering collaborative high quality and innovative psychological solutions with children, young people and their families.

The service has a comprehensive delivery model with care pathways for a wide range of mental health difficulties. These include depression and anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, functional and somatic symptoms, self-harming behaviours, and challenging behaviours in Intellectual Disabilities.

Main duties of the job

Duties of the post are varied and focus on the diversity of skill that Clinical Psychologists hold. Your post will be to deliver individual and group psychological interventions, training to parents and professionals and consultation to social care, education and charitable organisations. You will support the Consultant Psychologist in developing psychological thinking within the team and undertaking service development projects. You will lead new psychological initiatives within the service and actively grow the psychological skills of other team members. You will provide clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists and Psychological Therapists.

What we can offer you

The Service has strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course at Southampton University and provides placements for Trainee Psychologists. This link offers the opportunity to train with them as a Clinical Supervisor and opens avenues for pursuing research and teaching interests.

We can offer flexible working hours and agile working, to enable you to have a good work/life balance. Relocation packages can be discussed and considered upon request. The NHS offers a wide range of staff benefits including pension, care lease and cycle-to-work schemes and many discounts at retail outlets. There is also an extensive range of CPD training and skills development programmes available.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 02 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-11482
• Job locations: Newport Clinic, 7 Pyle Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1JW, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.