CAMHS Consultant Psychologist,Psychotherapist &Psychological Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Applications are welcomed for this exciting opportunity to lead the Maudsley’s National and Specialist CAMHS DBT Service. We are one of the most established DBT-A programmes in the UK and in addition to our core clinical offer we also provide training, consultation and supervision to other programmes and CAMHS clinicians. We are research active with a particular focus on adapting DBT for minoritized groups and developing and evaluating novel, DBT-informed interventions for young people and parent/carers that can be offered as early interventions. The successful candidate will provide clinical and operational leadership for the DBT team and these various activities and will also have opportunities to work with the N&S CAMHS Senior Leadership Group on wider organisational developments and to contribute to shaping a culture of collective leadership within the directorate.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support the day-to-day operation of the DBT service. As the clinical lead you will be responsible for ensuring fidelity to the evidence-based DBT model, promoting adherent practice within the team, as well as holding a small caseload of DBT clients. Along with the other senior clinicians in the service, you will provide senior cover across the week by being available when team members require consultation and guidance on managing complex clinical dilemmas relating to risk and safeguarding concerns. You will also lead on certain service developments, evaluations and research and provide training, supervision and consultation to DBT-A programmes and CAMHS colleagues nationally. You will be responsible for monitoring programme outcomes and ensuring Trust performance targets are met. You will also work with the Senior Management Team to ensure the service operates within its budgetary requirements. You will need to have considerable experience of working within a DBT programme at a senior level and an ability to provide effective supervision and support around complex clinical and workforce challenges. You will demonstrate an ability to build strong relationships both within and outside of the team that foster collaboration, respect, and problem-solving of team and organisational dilemmas. You will have a passion for fostering team wellbeing and culture and a capacity to balance consultation to the team with a more directive approach.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Entry-level qualification as set out below and demonstrable practice in one of the roles below (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of one of the professional registrations below. (A/I)
• Registered with professional body as appropriate (see above) to discipline: HCPC/UKCP/ACP/ BPC/BABCP.
• Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of relevant specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of relevant supervised practice-based learning in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher. (A/I)

Desirable

• Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience (A/I)
• Completed DBT-Prolonged Exposure Intensive training (4 days)

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in a comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programme. (A/I)
• Experience of undertaking leadership roles (A/I)
• Experience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training. (A/I)

Desirable

• Experience of supervising qualified mental health practitioners in their roles as DBT therapists. (A/I)
• Experience of providing supervision to DBT teams and to other teams providing DBT-informed interventions. (A/I)

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership. (A/I)
• Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological practice/processes and their therapeutic application relevant to this speciality.

Skills

Essential

• To deliver specialist therapy across cultural and other differences. (A/I)
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I)
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups (A/I)

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I)
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I)
• Ability to manage highly complex situations involving multiple difficulties, and competing/conflicting views about those difficulties; and to help create contexts that develop systemic engagement, and harness the strengths and abilities of those involved in order to work towards solutions (A/I)

Closing Date: 3 November 2026