Clinical Psychologist Development Post
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting development opportunity for a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the CYPMHS South team. The role involves consolidating specialist skills and developing into a senior clinician, providing highly specialist psychological services and evidence-based treatments to children, adolescents, and their families. The post holder will manage a complex caseload, operate within a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to the service's agreed pathways under the CAPA model and CYP-IAPT principles. This role is based across two sites in Watford and Borehamwood.
Key responsibilities
- Be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families.
- Operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services.
- Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from diverse backgrounds.
- Assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual children and young people, carers and families with complex behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents.
- Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan and communicating effectively with all involved parties.
Essential criteria
- Relevant training and professional registration as per person spec
- Post -doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including CBT
- Post registration experience of specialist psychological assessmentand treatment with clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
- Assessed experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children/adolescents with a wide range of presentations of varying severity. This would usually include at least 2 years post qualification experience, or other evidenced experience.
- Experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems with a wide range of client groups across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity includingmaintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training within Child and Adolescent Mental Health, through a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical / counseling psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an agreed alternative
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
- Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Good presentation and teaching skills and ability to use multi -media materials for formal presentations tolarge groups
- Experience of working within a multi -cultural framework
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
- Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members contributions
- Positive problem solving approach
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
- Experience in neuropsychological assessment training in supervision of clinical/counselling psychologists
- Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc
- Experience of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £67,020 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 13d
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist Development Post
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
Band 7 - Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (CYPMHS South)
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to join HPFT CYPMHS South team. The post is designed for a psychologist who is ready to consolidate specialist skills while developing into a senior clinician.
The service operates across two main sites, and the post holder will be expected to work from both locations in line with clinical need, team arrangements and service priorities: Watford Peace Children's Centre, Peace Prospect, Watford, WD17 3EW, and Borehamwood Civic Offices, Ground Floor, NHS Building, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, WD6 9SP. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary professionals and supporting collaborative, multi-agency working.
The post holder will hold HCPC registration and will provide a highly specialist psychological service and delivery of evidence-based service and routine outcome measures monitoring are robust, timely and aligned to the service's agreed pathways under principles of CAPA model of approach and CYP-IAPT, inclusive of both generic and specific work.
CYPMHS South sits within a wider countywide CYPMHS system of other teams of HPFT, offering strong professional links and peer support across community and s
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