Specialist Clinical Psychologist - CAMHS

Job details

• Job reference: 252427
• Salary: Band 8A (£65,125 - £70,303)
• Job closing date: 31/07/2026
• Job Type: Other Therapeutic
• Location: NHS Lanarkshire Wide
• Employment type: Fixed-term or Secondment
• Hours Per Week: Various
• Job posted date: 17/07/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
• Department: CAMHS - Psychology Services

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families within The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Department’s policies and procedures.

These fixed term posts will be based within either the CAMHS Care Experienced Team NHS Lanarkshire Wide or the CAMHS Paediatric Psychology Service at Coathill Hospital.

This includes:

• Provision of psychological and cognitive assessment
• The delivery of psychological therapies within a systemic framework/model of intervention
• Advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
• Supervision of trainee clinical psychologists while on generic or specialist CAMHS placement
• Teaching of clinical psychology trainees in agreement with Professional Lead for CAMHS and Doctoral/MSc training programmes
• Teaching principles of psychological theory and therapy to non-psychology colleagues and to other non-professional carers
• Provision of teaching and supervision to assistant psychologists and possibly other mental health clinicians
• Supervision of trainee research projects where necessary
• Application of research skills to guide and develop evidence based clinical practice, service development, service evaluation and clinical audit

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

In this key role, you will:

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Tier 3 Multidisciplinary team based on the appropriate use, interpretation and incorporation of complex and conflicting data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, semi structured interviews with clients, family members and other involved in the client’s care. Also using rating scales, self report measures and direct and indirect observations.

To formulate and implement specialist plans for the psychological treatment and / or management of the client’s mental health difficulties and their impact on families. This is based on an appropriate theoretical framework of the client’s problems, involves consideration of highly complex factors such as historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual family or group and utilises techniques where there is evidence of effectiveness. Such formulations and plans are derived after consideration of a range of options and the implications for the young person and their family / carers.

What You'll Bring:

A First Class Honours or Upper second Class degree in Psychology that provides eligibility for graduate basis for registration with British Psychological Society.

An accredited postgraduate Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology to meet the requirements for eligibility to register as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and as a member of the Health and Care Professions Council. Once registered as a member of the HCPC, the post holder should maintain registration. These qualifications confer an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of theoretical models and working practices.

Significant post qualification experience of working with children and young people with psychological problems and their families.

Training in and experience of, supervising doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees and trainee Clinical Associates in Applied Psychology.

Ongoing professional development activities as required to continue practising as a Clinical Psychologist, including clinical supervision and further specialist courses and training.

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Jemma Walker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on Jemma.Walker@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.