Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, E9 6ED |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7794727/363-SS7794727 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and motivated Highly Specialised CAMHS Psychologist to join the Adolescent Mental Health pathway. This will be a busy, interesting, and varied job working with adolescents and their families/carers within the Adolescent Mental Health Team (AMHT).
The AMHTprovides assessment and evidence based treatment to young people (13-17 years) presenting withsignificant and enduring mental health problemsincluding psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe depression and OCD, as well as providing additional support to some high-risk young people in crisis. There is afocus on providing targeted care in the community and preventing admission and work closely with the local adolescent inpatient unit and intensive community crisis service.
The post holder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who provide a range of mental health assessment and treatment services to children, young people and their families. The post holder will take a leadership role within the team, including the possibility of some supervision and line management, as well as service development. The post holder will provide comprehensive assessments for children and young people who have severe mental illness. Assessments may be carried out jointly with MDT colleagues and include at risk mental state assessments, family assessments and standardized assessments (such as the cognitive assessements, if trained or CAARMS assessment) where indicated. The clinician will also provide evidence based interventions for children, young people and their families including individual therapies, CBT for psychosis (if trained), group work such as DBT and family intervention (if trained).
The team works in partnership with other services such as the Coborn Adolescent Unit at Newhan, Intensive Community Crisis Support Service, CAMHS Disability Service at the Hackney Ark, our other Specialist CAMHS pathway teams co-located at Homerton Row, schools, children’s social care and other community agencies.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
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The post holder’s role, as a senior clinician for the AMHT, will be to develop and deliver a wide range of therapeutic interventions, lead service development projects and promote system change to better support young people’s mental health.
The post holder will have line management and supervisory responsibility for other Band 7 members of the Adolescent Mental Health multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Team Lead.
The post holder will be a highly specialist and experienced psychologist with a substantial knowledge of the field of child and adolescent mental health, especially in the areas of adolescent mental health. The post holder will be expected to develop expertise working with psychotic disorders and should have experience of other severe difficulties of adolescence. The post holder will have expertise in crisis / risk management.
The post holder will directly contribute to the positive working environment within the multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will have a high degree of professional autonomy and will be expected to account for their professional practice through appraisal and audit.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026