CAMHS Specialist Psychologist (Clinical/ Counselling) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,751 - £60,651 Yearly |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE18 3RZ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7720271/277-7720271-CYP |
Summary
The role includes the following: providing a qualified clinical psychology (or equivalent) service for children, young people and their families up to 18 years old; providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy; undertaking goal-based case management; contributing to supervision of assistant psychologists, trainees and other professionals; and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues within and outside the organisation.
The Generic Team is a highly experienced multidisciplinary team comprised of psychiatry, family therapy, art therapy, psychotherapy, nursing, social work, children’s wellbeing practitioners, and psychology at various levels of seniority.The service is in the process of an exciting re-design and development to align with the Thrive framework.
The post holder will hold a key role as a psychologist within a strong, friendly psychology discipline, and working within an MDT. There are opportunities for supervision of Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists as well as providing consultation to multi-disciplinary colleagues. There are opportunities for service development and quality improvement work, as well as the development of leadership skills.
The post holder will provide evidence based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for young people and families accessing the service.
The service is underpinned by CYP IAPT principles and the successful candidate will support and assist the core aims of this in the service. This can involve exciting and creative participation work, training opportunities and service development.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
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 client’s care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Feb 2026
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