# Barnet CAMHS Lead Psychologist

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Barnet
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Fixed term
**Salary**: £72719.00 to £83505.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 8b Psychology Lead to work across the Barnet CAMHS Teams based at the Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital.

As a senior Psychology role in CAMHS, you will take a lead role in developing psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions for children, young people, and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting.

Key responsibilities include:

- Taking delegated management responsibility for appraisals, offering supervision to trainee and qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists

- Co-leading the monthly Psychology Meeting and overseeing the continuous professional development of Psychologists in the service

- Deputising for the CAMHS Consultant Counselling/Clinical Psychologist in their absence

- Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercising responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice

- Utilising research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research

- Proposing and implementing policy changes within the borough-based CAMHS service and Trust-wide CAMHS forums

The successful candidate will be expected to have substantial experience of working as a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in community CAMHS settings, extensive experience of providing psychological therapies to children, young people, and their families, and experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.

In return, we offer a salary of £72,719 to £83,505 per annum, plus a range of benefits including NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.

## Skills

### Required
- postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology
- registration with the HCPC
- experience of working as a qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist in community CAMHS settings

### Nice to have
- post-doctoral training in one or more specialised area of psychological practice
- experience of assessing and treating children, young people, and their families across the full range of care settings

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