We are looking for an Assistant Psychologists for the Croydon CAMHS treatment team who offer a mental health service to children and adolescents with moderate to severe mental health disorders and/or ADHD.
You will contribute to the provision of services to meet the needs of these young people by supporting initial assessments and preparation of draft reports, supporting the running of parent information groups and supporting initiatives to reduce waiting times.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities: We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support their career aspirations. For this role, we regularly offer support to Assistant Psychologists looking to progress on to a career in Clinical Psychology by gaining a place on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. Group and Individual supervision are offered to Assistants in the aim of helping them to progress in their career.
• To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist assessments and interventions. Working collaboratively to assess the needs of the service users, planning, implementing and evaluating the care given in the Croydon treatment team
• To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision, of a practitioner psychologist. This may involve co-facilitation of psychoeducation and therapeutic groups.
• To assist in clinically related administration, e.g. assessment/discharge reports, conduct audits, collect statistics, develop audit and/or research projects.
• To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.
About our locations:
Christopher Wren House is situated within easy walking distance of the town centre, and approximately 12 minutes walk from East Croydon station. It is generally well served by public transport with good bus and tram links. All the Croydon CAMHS services are co-located within it. which supports good inter team working opportunities and sharing of expertise.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post).
• To work with senior clinicians providing assessment and intervention for children and adolescents with moderate to severe mental health problems and/or neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD.
• To assist senior clinicians in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and to cofacilitate parent psychoeducation groups. .
• To undertake data collection, input and database management, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes, supporting preparation of draft reports.
• To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform service development, training provision and research activities.
• To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development of evidence base to support the clinical practice of the team
• Under guidance to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and challenging behaviours and to support others involved in such situations.
• To take responsibility for seeking supervision and support for yourself and not going beyond your scope of practice.
• To work within an MDT and actively promote relationships with colleagues. T
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Jul 2025