Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

Job overview

We’re looking for an experienced psychological therapist to join our Anxiety Disorders Treatment Team (ADTT) within Berkshire CAMHS. This part-time role, combines direct clinical work with young people and their families, holding a small clinical caseload, alongside providing consultation and supervision to colleagues and associated professionals within the team.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide expert psychological therapy to children and young people with complex mental health presentations.
• Offer clinical leadership, consultation, and supervision within the multi-disciplinary CAMHS team, to enhance the quality of interventions.
• Develop and oversee intensive risk management plans, supporting young people who require multi-agency involvement.
• Contribute to and lead service development initiatives, ensuring our approach aligns with the latest research, national policy, and best practices.
• Travel across Berkshire as needed  to meet the diverse needs of our service users.
• Work four days per week, with flexibility in choosing your set working days.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a specialist, supportive and compassionate team dedicated to transforming young lives.
• Play a key role in shaping service delivery and innovation within CAMHS.
• Access ongoing training, development, and career progression opportunities.

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the delivery of psychological therapy within ADTT, providing expert professional leadership and advice relating to the delivery of psychological therapy for complex presentations requiring multiple interventions, complex or intensive risk management plans and high levels of multiagency working in order to ensure and develop consistently high quality, safe and cost-effective services for users, working in partnership with key stakeholders internal and external to the Trust.
• As we develop our on-line offer, to undertake a role in moderating service user activity on the Trust Support, Hope, Recovery On-Line Network (SHaRON) and to participate in on-line discussions and care delivery via this modality.
• Responsible for expert psychological assessment, case formulation, risk assessment and treatment for a designated number of patients presenting with complex mental health difficulties.
• To support the development and implementation of frameworks and strategies that improve clinical practice, governance, education, learning, performance, management and quality in the service and across the Trust
• To support the further development and maintenance of support services delivered by the team, including but not exclusive too, the advice and consultation function, CYPF digital services including Young SHaRON and the online resource.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

1. Post graduate doctoral qualification in clinical psychology (or equivalent).

2. Registered and accredited with Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) or UKCP/BPC

3. Evidence of post-doctoral specialist training to accreditable level in at least 2 areas of  psychological practice directly related to the clinical requirements of this post.

4. Leadership experience and a successful track record in leading service delivery and contributing to service transformation

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Dr Jo Cocksey, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on 0786 678 7757 or Mel Jarvis Service Manager on 0779 536 6676 who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.