# Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £66,274 to £73,496 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Our Social Care CAMHS is seeking a highly motivated, skilled and experienced Psychologist to cover maternity leave for one year. If you are passionate about improving the mental health of young people and working with children and adolescents who are looked after by the local authority or on Child in Need or Child Protections plans, we would like to hear from you.

The role is varied and includes offering consultations to social workers and foster carers, running groups, providing individual assessments and interventions directly to young people and training social workers.

Responsibilities:

- Be responsible for the provision of specialist psychological assessments and specialist interventions to children involved with social care or who are looked after and foster carers, as well as offer consultation and support to professionals.

- Run groups

- Be involved in service evaluation, audit and service development.

- Have opportunities to supervise trainees and other staff members as appropriate

Requirements:

- Qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist,

- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings

- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working

- Experience of multi-agency working especially Social Care YJS or PRU

- Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Multi-agency working
- Safeguarding and Child Protection

### Nice to have
- Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative
- DDP/EMDR/CBT-TF or another trauma focused intervention
- ADOS and/or ADI
- Leading case reviews
- Teaching and liaising with other professional groups

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