CAMHS Specialist Psychologist (Clinical/ Counselling)
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £53,751.00 to £60,651.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE18 3RZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-26-0030 |
Summary
Clinical: To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to CAMHS based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, both as an autonomous individual clinician and in synthesis with colleagues in MDT, while adjusting and refining psychological formulations by drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options by taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically-based care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically-based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, including as a duty clinician covering crisis presentations at A&E. To provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.