# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist **Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Salary**: £66274.00 to £73496.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0454?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6c6379e7-6ee ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work with young people and families in the borough of Wandsworth who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The postholder will be joining a passionate team in an established and valued role which will contribute to the development and delivery of services that seek to transform mental health delivery for marginalised young people involved in or at risk of offending. The role offers a balance of direct clinical work, specialist consultation, training delivery, service development and supervision, and is embedded within Wandsworth Youth Justice Service. Candidates will also have access to relevant specialist training as per their development plan. The service is informed by AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment), trauma-informed, systemic and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System. **Main duties of the job** The post holder will be supporting children who present with a range of needs and will be responsible for providing specialist assessments and interventions, as well as consultation, training and reflective practice to school staff alongside co-ordinating multi-agency networks based on psychological formulations. The post holder will support and co-lead on the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRUs. **Job responsibilities** The post holder will support the delivery and development of the Tier 2 mental health service across the PRU sites. The appointee will offer trauma-informed assessment, intervention, consultation, and training to young people and staff across the PRU and partner agencies. The role requires advanced skills in psychological assessment and formulation, with an understanding of how to incorporate challenging behaviour, additional learning needs, neurodivergence, and a range of social and contextual information within a trauma-informed framework, as well as the ability to share this and recommendations with other multi-agency colleagues. **Person Specification** **Training & Qualifications** - Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist. - Evidence of continuing professional development. - Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees. **Experience** - Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings. - Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. - Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months. **Benefits** The Trust offers flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. ## Skills ### Required - clinical psychology - counselling psychology - trauma-informed practice - mental health - youth justice ### Nice to have - AMBIT - trauma-informed - systemic - attachment-based - community psychology - co-production --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9294-26-0454?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)