Overview
The N&S CAMHS Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service (AAFS) is a national and specialist service within the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. AAFS is recruiting a 1 WTE Band 7 Specialist Practitioner Psychologist on a permanent basis.
Role and Responsibilities
* Highly specialist assessments of young people with complex mental health needs, high-risk behaviours (e.g., self-harm, aggression, sexual offending) and/or risk of exploitation (sexual and criminal). Assessments include structured risk and neuropsychological assessments.
* Provide direct and indirect evidence-based psychological interventions for young people, their families and the systems around them.
* Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
* Provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
* Undertake service evaluation, audit and research.
* Work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service.
About our locations
The post will be based at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and within walking distance from green spaces and a vibrant high-street. (Due to move to the Pears Maudsley Children and Young People (PMCYP) at the Maudsley Hospital in late 2025/early 2026)
Flexible working
We offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working. Interview stage discussion welcome. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames 09:00 to 17:00. This may include early mornings or late evenings and some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post.
Team and commitments
The post holders will provide a specialist clinical service to the Adolescent At-risk & Forensic Service, National and Specialist CAMHS. We are a friendly and supportive team committed to professional and personal development. We are committed to addressing inequality in access, experience and outcomes for children and staff from diverse backgrounds and take an anti-racist approach. Our team is made up of clinical psychologists, a forensic psychologist, a social worker, clinical psychology trainees, MSc placement students, and assistant psychologists. We are actively involved in research and have close links with IoPPN, King's College London. We welcome applications from those with lived experiences and from Black and minority groups.
Advert closes
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025
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