Single Point of Access Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The CAMHS Single Point of Access team are recruiting an Assistant Psychologist post at Band 4 within Community CAMHS.

This post holder will support the CAMHS Single Point of Access by screening the incoming referrals, tasking them to the correct clinician for thorough triage, triaging some referrals, and completing any follow up actions for families and young people.

The post holder will also support with quality improvement projects on SPA including developing our signposting guide, obtaining feedback about the SPA service from young people and families, and developing and maintaining relationships with our community partners, including all the local CAMHS Teams (First Steps, Specialist CAMHS, CAMHS Disability), our 16-25 year old services (Off Centre and Growing Minds), our other NHS Children’s Services (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy), and our voluntary sector organisations in Hackney.

We will provide opportunities for shadowing and joint working with our CAMHS teams depending on the learning and career goals of the post holder.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

  • Conduct and evaluate outcomes for duty by being directly involved at every stage of the process including screening.
  • Duty tasks involving liaison between all clinicians and staff to ensure referral process are scheduled to fit with service targets
  • Attend and contribute to team meetings, involving recording relevant information for the purpose of tracking referrals, maintaining robust data collection and overseeing assessment/triage clinic operations.
  • Be responsible for data entry and RiO progress notes
  • Support the Community CAMHS Service in developing clinical resources for referrals, triage, duty, initial assessments and risk assessments.
  • Work in partnership with clients and colleagues, maintaining respect for differing opinions and discussing all appropriate options for ways of working together effectively.
  • Work flexibly (independently, with MDT members, wider systems/agencies) to keep duty and the referrals process running smoothly.
  • Assist with research projects, audit activities and teaching.
  • Undertake research and personal development activities appropriate to the post, under the guidance of the line manager.
  • Assist qualified staff in setting up and co-facilitating group interventions as appropriate.
  • Support the organisation of training events.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Relevant degree: Upper second or first class or equivalent. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society A desire to progress onto Clinical Psychology Training
  • Substantive experience working for a public sector /3rd sector organisation, in an Assistant Psychologist or similar role. Clinical work with children/young people and parents/carers.
  • High level communication and facilitation skills with regards to clients (children, young people and parents/carers with diverse needs) and professionals – ability to tailor information to a range of levels.
  • Skills to work with staff and clients from diverse ethnic communities in providing a culturally competent service.
  • Competence in IT and keyboard skills. Ability to use information technology e.g. MS Office 2010 upwards including Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point; manipulation of data within a database.

Desirable

  • Further education in relevant area of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
  • Work with children within a CAMHS framework in the NHS.
  • Experience in a setting where good practice is evident in relation to child protection
  • Understanding of various psychological measures, tools and psychometric tests.

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).

Closing Date: 14 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.