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Band 8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Part Time Hours (22.5hrs; 0.6 WTE)
The Kingston & Richmond CAMHS SPA provides out-patient and consultation services to children experiencing a range of mental health and neurodevelopmental difficulties. We are a team composing of Psychologists, a Psychiatrist, Mental Health Nurses, Assistant Psychologists, Administrators, as well as Trainees and Students on regular rotation. We are a friendly team who value each other’s skills and expertise, as well as the importance of having good supportive relationships with each other.
This role is open to qualified clinical psychologists with the following:
* Qualification as Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered as a practitioner psychologist with the HCPC.
* Experience of working with children and young people
* Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of supervising assistant psychologists and/or trainees
* The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community.
* The ability to efficiently manage a caseload.
* Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
* Ideally a special interest in child neurodevelopment and neurodiversity
* The ability to adapt to the fast-paced nature of CAMHS SPA work, with good IT and computer recording skills to navigate between the various IT record systems within CAMHS, SWLSTG Trust and Achieving for Children
The successful candidate would be a key clinician within the CAMHS SPA, offering mental health assessments as described above. They would also form part of the leadership team within the service, with opportunities for supervision of placement students, trainee clinical psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and qualified clinicians within the service as appropriate. There would also be opportunities for service development, with a key role of supporting for the ongoing development of our SPA and its integrated role both within the wider CAMHS Service and with our Achieving For Children partners.
There will also be opportunities to take on other activities (e.g., therapeutic work) within the local community tier 3 CAMHS service.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
About the locations :
Woodroffe House, Tolworth Hospital
To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site’s layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
Livingston House, Teddington – To re-locate permanently to Richmond Royal Summer 2025
Our community hub is near shops, restaurants and stations in Teddington with trains to Richmond, Kingston, Clapham Junction, or Waterloo. This service will permanently re-locate to a new bespoke CAMHS building at Richmond Royal Hospital in Summer 2025. Richmond Royal Hospital is located in Richmond Town Centre. It is a 5 minute walk from Overground and South West Train routes.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lorna Taha Job title: Service Manager Email address: lorna.taha@swlstg.nhs.uk
We look forward to receiving your application. If you would like to discuss the post further, please contact:
Dr. Rachel Mahoney, Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for the service, on Rachel.Mahoney@swlstg.nhs.uk or 020 8547 6171.
or
Helen Albon, Clinical Psychologist and Professional Lead for the service, on helen.albon@swlstg.nhs.uk or 020 8547 6171.
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