Clinical Psychologist RBG Children Services Care leavers
| Posting date: | 06 February 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: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | 35 Wellington Street, London, SE18 6HQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-26-0149 |
Summary
To deliver clinical input across Childrens Services by offering specialist support to care leavers and their families. To provide specialist psychologically-informed mental health assessments of clients referred to the team 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, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options 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 provide consultation and training to junior colleagues, local authority colleagues and carers. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all CYP of the service, across settings and agencies. To contribute to the development of evidence-based models of assessment, treatment, and specialist interagency care. To support the delivery of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) and related approaches across Childrens Services, supporting the development of both clinical and non-clinical staff in CFT-informed practice. To support local authority colleagues with the Childrens Service Practice Framework, including Compassion-Focused and Systemic practice. To provide reflective consideration of different options for working with young people and families. To support colleagues to think about the network around the young person and what may be the most appropriate support to address their need. To contribute to research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service, including outcomes reporting. To work in close collaboration with other Childrens Services colleagues to fulfil and further develop the multi-disciplinary offer to care leavers. To develop strong joint working relationships and practices across Childrens Services, Adult mental health and Oxleas CAMHS, between clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels of the organization. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. To provide highly specialist consultation, supervision advice and guidance to other professionals working with families both within the service and in partner agencies. This will include liaison and working with professional networks involved with highly complex, emotive and often conflictual issues such as those involving child protection, deliberate self harm, violence, trauma, suicide risk, criminal offending behaviour, sexualised behaviour, and mental health problems of parents. To work in accordance with CAMHS and team objectives by adhering to Trust and Directorate policies, including risk assessment in all work, ensuring care plans are in place, recording up to date, attending and contributing a systemic view in case discussion and team meetings. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the development of systemic professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit including CYP-IAPT principles. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi- disciplinary care.