Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 PER ANNUM |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK40 3JT |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7454548/363-SSLB7454548 |
Summary
CAMHS Clinical Psychologist, Looked after children
We are excited to be recruiting into our Band 8a post for a Clinical Psychologist in Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS Looked After Children’s Team. We are looking for someone to join us who has passion and experience of working with looked after children and able to contribute positively to the growing team.
We are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated individual, with a strong professional identity to work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team. You will work with children and adolescents who have highly complex and persistent mental health difficulties, using evidence based practice to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.You will provide a range of highly skilled therapeutic trauma-informed interventions, which will be delivered on an individual, group or family basis, provide consultations to social workers/foster carers, provide support to professional networks working with the children in care, and share OT specialist skills to the multi-disciplinary team.
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 – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
The post will be based in Bedford but you will be expected to work across our Bedfordshire and Luton clinics. The team works with looked after children including those placed on SGO orders and Unaccompanied asylum seeking children. There are many opportunities for development with the team and being a part of a wider collaborative CAMHS service.
We place a high value on staff wellbeing and investment in teams to ensure a high quality service provision.Benefits of working for the Trust include aEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP), Child care vouchers, Relocation packages and Wellbeing sessions
For further details please see attached job description
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Sep 2025