Clinical Psychologost | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £57,528 - £64,750 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2026 |
| Location: | Luton, LU4 0LU |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8005772/363-SS8005772 |
Summary
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) has embarked on a very exciting journey to develop our specialist Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). In 2021, NHS England confirmed additional funding to develop an interim acute mental health inpatient unit for Children and Young People in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, called Evergreen.
Since 2023, Evergreen has been providing specialist, holistic care to young people aged 13 - 17 and is looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join the team.
We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist.
They will lead on the psychological therapies provision within the unit. Although this post is banded at 8a and may typically involve more management responsibilities, the successful postholder will predominantly be ensuring the development and direct provision of an autonomous and systemic highly specialist clinical service for adolescents with complex mental health needs and their families, including highly specialist assessments.
We have been innovative in developing pathways with our Crisis and Home Treatment teams which provides a quality service to deliver treatment in the community and focus is on helping young people achieve their potential and thrive. You will work alongside these established teams to ensure essential in patient treatment is seamlessly and efficiently delivered and continued when the young person is discharged.
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.
Job responsibilities
This post will be based at Evergreen Tier 4 Unit for Children and Young people in Luton.
Please see the job description for more information on this particular role.
For further information, please see below contact, and also:
Sean Dumbell, Modern Matron sean.dumbell@nhs.net
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Post doctoral training in supervision.
• Post Doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Desirable
• Management training.
• Breakaway training.
• Post qualification training in Early Interventions with psychosis; Complex Mental health presentations in adolescence and / or Cognitive or neurodevelopmental assessments with children and adolescents
• Post Doctoral Training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Experience
Essential
• Post qualification experience within the specialty of child and adolescent clinical psychology
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator / care manager and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists
• Experience of the application of psychology and delivering services in different cultural contexts
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jun 2026