Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist with experience of and expertise in CAMHS emergency care response. This is an opportunity for a band 8a clinical psychologist to work within the SWLSTG Trust CAMHS emergency care service, supporting young people and families accessing A-E departments at Kingston Hospital, St Helier hospital, and St Georges hospital.

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 within the CAMHS crisis pathway.

The role offers a balance of direct clinical work, specialist consultation, training delivery, service development, and supervision. Candidates will also have access to relevant specialist training as per their development plan.

Main duties of the job

Alongside direct clinical work, there will be an expectation to provide leadership, consultancy, and training to CAMHS and partner agencies in relation to Brief Solution Focused therapy and other psychological interventions, as required.

Candidates will be committed to partnership working, hold excellent communication, engagement, and people skills, and have experience of working within the acute hospital settings, as well as working within an emergency care service.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified Clinical Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist
  • Training in supervision of other psychologists
  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.

Desirable

  • Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of community settings
  • Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
  • Experience of inter-agency working
  • Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection

Desirable

  • Experience of leading case reviews
  • Experience of working in the NHS
  • Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
  • Experience of liaison/paediatric psychology
  • Experience of leadership within the NHS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 24 September 2026

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