Assistant Psychologist (Deaf Child Out Patient London): Sponsorship Available

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

Job Summary

The National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is part of a high quality comprehensive national service for children, young people, and their families up to eighteen years of age who are severely or profoundly deaf and have significant difficulties with their mental health. You would be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team; currently consisting of Psychiatry, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Nursing, Social work, and Family Therapy.The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in the London outpatient team including interface with other National Deaf CAMHS services (Kent and Cambridge for instance) and receive clinical supervision and support from the Clinical Psychologists within these teams.

  • You will need at least a 2:1 degree in psychology, Level One BSL and good conversational skills in BSL, an understanding of the needs and difficulties of deaf people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, and good research skills (including up to date I.T. skills). Experience of working with d/Deaf people would be valuable, but we recognize that not all applicants will have had this opportunity. Tailored induction and training will be provided to enable you to work effectively with this client group. Applications from people who have personal experience of d/Deafness and/or mental health difficulties would be welcomed.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
  • Eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
  • British Sign Language Level 1

Desirable

  • Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
  • British Sign Language level 2+ Post-qualification training in the field of psychological therapies

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities

Desirable

  • Experience of paid work in direct care provision
  • Experience of working with deaf people as colleagues and/or clients
  • Experience of using computers for report writing, databases or data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
  • Personal experience of deafness

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: 17 August 2025

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