Assistant Psychologist
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,158.00 to £32,535.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31158.00 - £32535.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 December 2025 |
| Location: | Twickenham, TW1 3BW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B0458-09DEC25-2195 |
Summary
About the service The emotional health service sits within our Education Directorate. The service is a dynamic team of Mental Health professionals including Clinical / Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Systemic Psychotherapists and Creative Therapists. The service sits alongside our Mental Health Support Teams in Schools. The EHS is focused on providing fully integrated, high quality and swift mental health consultation, advice, training and reflective practice space for our social care and education colleagues. This is a newly created service, following our local independent CAMHS review and therefore there are many opportunities for development. About the role As an Assistant Psychologist in the Emotional Health Service (EHS) you will be passionate about improving the mental health of children and young people and putting them at the centre of all you do. You will provide input and support to the Child & Family Help social care teams with a focus on neurodivergent children and families with outreach to the Family Hubs in the community. You will support the EHS Clinician for Child & Family Help team to deliver consultations, reflective practice and bespoke training to specialist education, social care and family support worker colleagues. You will also support the team with group work and aspects of assessments and interventions. You will be part of a team of clinicians providing access to regular peer supervision and many exciting development opportunities. You will also receive clinical supervision and line management within the service. About you: Our role specification Qualifications Educated to a degree level in Psychology (2.1 or better) Additional CPD in Autism and ADHD Skills and experience Experience of working in CAMHS or other child mental health service Experience of working with children and/or young people with Autism or ADHD Experience of a range of assessment tools and frameworks to evaluate progress and outcomes for children and young people A knowledge of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Have the ability to demonstrate a high level of determination, personal drive, energy and ambition to achieve challenging targets Have high-level verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to use different communication styles and techniques to present ideas and influence others Have knowledge and understanding of legislation, statutory frameworks, child development and relevant pedagogy including Safeguarding Have the ability to recognise your own professional limitations and gaps and to use clinical supervision and regular CPD to overcome limitations and close knowledge gaps Have good IT skills including use of database or spreadsheet packages Personal attributes A passion for Achieving for Childrens vision, mission and values to support children and young people to live safe, happy, healthy and successful lives Evidence that you put children and young people first Evidence that you work in partnership to improve services Evidence that you focus on quality and innovation Evidence that you listen and learn to develop the EHS and AfC as an organisation Evidence that you champion inclusion and value diversity