Overview
A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The Wandsworth Mental Health Support Team is an original trailblazer team, started in January 2019 and currently comprises 3 qualified Education Wellbeing Practitioners (EWPs), an EWP trainee, a qualified CBT Therapist and the advertised post, which is the most senior post and supervisor within the MHST. The team works with a cluster of schools across the Southfields and Earlsfield areas in Wandsworth, offering both direct interventions within the schools and the implementation of a whole schools approach to mental health. The advertised post is an exciting and varied role with good scope for creative and innovative working within a new national initiative to increase mental health input directly into schools. There is a very strong supervisor peer support network across the service as well as clinical supervision being offered by the borough 8B lead and service development supervision being offered by the consultant psychology lead. There is a huge amount of opportunity for developing skills and being at the forefront of an innovative service. We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and creative psychologist who is keen to expand their skills and learn on the job, with strong support offered at all levels.
The post is full time, fixed term for one year, although term time only or 0.8wte will also be considered. There is also the opportunity to move to a permanent part time post in the same team after the fixed term contract finishes.
Role and Responsibilities
* The postholder will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the MHST and supervision of the staff, including managing risk and safeguarding issues.
* The role includes a link liaison role with schools and working jointly with wider MHSTs and CAMHS teams to ensure joined up service delivery.
* The whole school approach work involves working collaboratively with schools at a preventative level, meeting need as it arises.
* There are many opportunities for offering consultation, staff training or reflective practice sessions, parent workshops, coffee mornings and groups.
* The postholder will also provide specialist clinical interventions for children and young people who do not meet CAMHS thresholds.
* There is an opportunity to complete EMDR training in order to pick up specialist EMDR cases within the cluster if desired.
* The MHSTs work within a network of child mental health resources that coordinate early help, targeted help and specialist interventions for children and young people according to presentation and need.
* There are good opportunities for linking in with local CAMHS and the Single Point of Access.
* As these services are all run by the Trust, this makes for smoother linking in and liaison across teams.
* We are inviting applications from qualified psychologists who already have good previous experience of working in CAMHS.
* We are passionate about inclusion, diversity and co-production with local communities.
* We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Applications will be welcomed from qualified psychologists who already have good previous experience of working in CAMHS.
* To promote and ensure highly specialist psychological services and skills to the team and schools.
* To collaboratively work with schools to implement a whole school approach to mental health, including staff consultation and training as appropriate.
* To provide advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines, to a clear CAMHS job plan.
* To offer clinical supervision to the EWPs and the band 6 & 7 posts, with a focus on CBT models and parenting approaches. Providing clinical input to supervisees’ PADRs.
* Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
* To offer direct interventions with 5 to 11 year olds and their parents in primary schools plus 11 to 18 year olds in secondary schools, including those who may have experienced trauma and who exhibit behaviours that may be challenging.
* To lead on the management of clinical risk or safeguarding issues within the team.
* To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
* To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
* To work with the consultant clinical lead and school cluster lead to provide a clear team focus and goals for increasing mental health access and support across the cluster of schools.
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Mar 2026
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