# Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-or-clinical-psychologist/6985eba4-2e18-460e-be16-64d364313a87 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-or-clinical-psychologist/6985eba4-2e18-460e-be16-64d364313a87.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Alder Hey Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T11:43:09.638Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Alder_Hey_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Mental_Health_Practitioner_Clinical_Psychologist/Senior_Mental_Health_Practitioner_Clinical_Psychologist-v8247158 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8247158?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.alderhey.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - Right to work: We actively promote diversity and inclusion. This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit Health and Care Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK Sefton CAMHS are looking for an experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioner or Clinical Psychologist to join our service. Sefton CAMHS is seeking to appoint an experienced specialist mental health practitioner or clinical psychologist to join this dynamic team. At Sefton CAMHS we work with children and young people with a range of mental health support needs. This role will be integral to ensuring that children and young people can access the right support for them to help them build the skills they need to manage their own mental health needs in the future. The successful applicant will contribute to clinical work and case management responsibility for their workload. Provision of supervision to lower banded team members, trainees and other internal professionals as required. We are particularly seeking candidates who have substantial experience of working within complex systems, providing case consultation, multi-agency formulations and working with families indirectly via wider professional involvement ### Main duties of the job The post holder will undertake appropriate mental health assessment of children and young people referred to CAMHS and provide a range of appropriate, evidence based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need. The post holder will provide support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details about duties and responsibilities. ### 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** - Skills in the use of complex methods of mental health 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. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Some knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health. - Must demonstrate knowledge of the evidence base in their practice. - Must demonstrate understanding of child development and psychosocial influences - Must demonstrate a working understanding of systemic, psychodynamic and cognitive theories along with recognition of when each approach is appropriate. - Must demonstrate knowledge of audit and evaluation methodology. - Must demonstrate knowledge of research methodology. - Must demonstrate an understanding of current government initiatives underpinning service developments. Must demonstrate strong organisational skills. - Must be able to demonstrate the ability to manage aspects of service development in line with government initiatives **Desirable** - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc) - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised therapies/interventions - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of child and adolescent mental health. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families. - Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team - Working collaboratively with other agencies in a variety of venues. - Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse. - Must be experienced in providing risk assessment of self harming behaviour - Must be experienced in analysing presenting problems and able to demonstrate ability to work autonomously utilising a range of therapeutic perspectives and modalities, depending on the needs of the client. - Must be experienced in and able to demonstrate ability to provide case management supervision for lower banded CAMHS Workers, students and other service group/team professionals as required. - Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately. Must be able to demonstrate ability to develop and evaluate consultation and training to other professionals and to staff groups. **Desirable** - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision - Experience of the application of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions of in different cultural contexts. - Experience of working with children and young people in a range of clinical settings. ### Qualifications & Training **Essential** - Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy or Recognised degree level broad based health & social care qualification which will require completion of The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Knowledge Skills and Attributes - Accredited therapeutic training **Desirable** - Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of child and adolescent mental health. - Post graduate (masters and above) level study ## Documents - [senior mental health practitioner or clinical psychologist (pdf, 501.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10560004) - [senior mental health practitioner or clinical psychologist (pdf, 632.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10560003) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.