Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated Highly Specialised CAMHS Psychologist to join the Adolescent Mental Health pathway. This will be a busy, interesting, and varied job working with adolescents and their families/carers within the Adolescent Mental Health Team (AMHT).

Main Duties of the Job

• Join an experienced multi-disciplinary team providing mental health assessment and treatment to children, young people and their families.
• Take a leadership role including supervision, line management, and service development.
• Provide comprehensive assessments for children and young people with severe mental illness, including at risk mental state assessments, family assessments, and standardized assessments.
• Provide evidence based interventions including individual therapies, CBT for psychosis, group work such as DBT, and family intervention.

About Us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking for people who live and breathe these qualities.

Job Details

• Date posted: 05 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change, Band 8a
• Salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 363-SS7794727-B
• Job locations: City & Hackney CAMHS, 15 Homerton Row, London, E9 6ED

Job Responsibilities

The post holder's role, as a senior clinician for the AMHT, will be to develop and deliver a wide range of therapeutic interventions, lead service development projects and promote system change to better support young people's mental health. The post holder will have line management and supervisory responsibility for other Band 7 members of the Adolescent Mental Health multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Team Lead. The post holder will be a highly specialist and experienced psychologist with a substantial knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, especially in the areas of adolescent mental health. The post holder will be expected to develop expertise working with psychotic disorders and should have experience of other severe difficulties of adolescence. The post holder will have expertise in crisis / risk management. The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will have a high degree of professional autonomy and will be expected to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualification in Clinical/Educational/Counselling Psychology. Clinical Psychology
• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS.

Experience

• Experience of working at an equivalent to Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health
• Experience of working specifically with adolescent mental health

Knowledge

• Evidence of well-developed individual clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
• Specialist clinical skills within specific therapeutic modalities.

Additional Information

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Contact for questions: Yoko Totsuka, Clinical Team Lead, email: [contact hidden], phone: [contact hidden].

Employer Details

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Address: City & Hackney CAMHS, 15 Homerton Row, London, E9 6ED
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