# CAMHS Consultant Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £88,250 to £100,355 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled CAMHS Consultant Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Psychological Therapist to lead our National and Specialist CAMHS DBT Service. The successful candidate will provide clinical and operational leadership for the DBT team and contribute to shaping a culture of collective leadership within the directorate.

The role involves supporting the day-to-day operation of the DBT service, ensuring fidelity to the evidence-based DBT model, and promoting adherent practice within the team. You will also lead on service developments, evaluations, and research, and provide training, supervision, and consultation to DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally.

The ideal candidate will have considerable experience of working within a DBT programme at a senior level, an ability to provide effective supervision and support around complex clinical and workforce challenges, and a passion for fostering team wellbeing and culture.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing clinical and operational leadership for the DBT team

- Ensuring fidelity to the evidence-based DBT model

- Promoting adherent practice within the team

- Leading on service developments, evaluations, and research

- Providing training, supervision, and consultation to DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally

- Monitoring programme outcomes and ensuring Trust performance targets are met

- Working with the Senior Management Team to ensure the service operates within its budgetary requirements

The post is permanent, full-time, and band 8c, with a salary range of £88,250 to £100,355 per annum.

## Skills

### Required
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- DBT-A
- clinical leadership
- team management
- research
- training
- supervision

### Nice to have
- management qualification
- DBT-Prolonged Exposure Intensive training
- experience of supervising qualified mental health practitioners

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