Practitioner Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 17 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Catford, SE6 9SE |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7691195/334-CLI-7534261-B |
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We are seeking a highly skilled Practitioner Psychologist to join our Lewisham CAMHS ARTS Team, working with young people in the Youth Justice System or at risk of offending. This is a senior clinical role where you will lead on complex assessments, including sexually harmful behaviour and neurodevelopmental needs, and deliver evidence-based interventions that make a real difference.
You will play a key role in shaping psychologically informed care, offering clinical supervision, consultation and leadership across the team. Your work will support safer, more inclusive services and help embed trauma-informed, culturally competent practice across the pathway.
This post offers scope to influence service development through research, audit and innovation. You will work autonomously within HCPC and BPS guidelines, supported by a collaborative team and a Trust committed to equity, learning and clinical excellence.
If you are passionate about forensic CAMHS and ready to lead impactful work with vulnerable young people, we welcome your application.
• To provide a highly specialist psychology service to young people who are held withing the Youth Justice System or who are at risk of offending including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
· To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in assessment and intervention of sexually harmful behaviour, violence risk assessment using SAVRY/SAPROF and neurodevelopmental assessment where required.
· To undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
· To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
· To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
The ARTS Forensic CAMHS Team is a small but highly regarded team co-located with the Youth Justice Service within the wider local authority Integrated Adolescent Service based in Catford, London Borough Lewisham. The team is part of Lewisham CAMHS and has a long history of providing innovative approaches to working with the complex and traumatised young people involved in the criminal justice system. The postholder will be well supported within the Psychology & Psychotherapy framework within Lewisham CAMHS and the South London & Maudsley Trust. The team consists of a Clinical Service Lead, Senior Clinical Psychologist and CAMHS Therapist. A Consultant Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist is with the team on Tuesdays.
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
· To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the ARTS Team including AIM assessment and intervention for sexually harmful behaviour, violence risk assessment and neurodevelopmental assessment (ADHD & cognitive assessment).
· To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
· To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
· To contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
· To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
· To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
KR 3 Policy and service development
· To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
· To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.
KR 4 Care or management of resources
· To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
· To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
KR 5 Management and supervision
· To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychologists with support from a more senior psychologist.
· To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism.
KR 6 Teaching and Training
· To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post- qualification psychologists and specialised training to other professions as appropriate.
· To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the ARTS Team by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and forensic work with young people and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
· To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
· To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
KR 8 Research and development
· To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits.
· To initiate and carry out appropriate research where appropriate and within scope of the service.
KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
· To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychologist according to HCPC and Trust guidelines.
· To ensure own Continuing Professional Development in line with BPS and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the HCPC ‘Standards for Continuing Professional Development’.
KR10 General
· To travel to home visits, prisons, and other teams and services as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
· To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.
This advert closes on Sunday 18 Jan 2026