Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Site Richmond Royal Hospital Town Richmond Salary £63,665 - £70,887 per rota inclusive of Outer London HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 02/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/09/2026

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

WTE: 0.6 (3 days a week)

Job Overview:

An opportunity has arisen for a band 8a clinical psychologist to work with young people and families in the boroughs of Kingston and Richmond who have been historically underrepresented in mainstream services. The role forms part of the CAMHS provision provided into Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service (YJS).

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 for marginalized young people involved in or at risk of offending.

The role offers a balance of direct clinical work, specialist consultation, training delivery, service development, and supervision and is embedded within Kingston and Richmond Youth Justice Service. Candidates will also have access to relevant specialist training as per their development plan.

The service is informed by systemic, trauma-informed and attachment-based principles and is working towards implementing community psychology and co-production into its practice model. The team also takes a critical approach to addressing ethnic, racial, and social disproportionality within the Youth Justice System.

The postholder will be working within a multi-disciplinary context to deliver creative and adapted evidence-based care, including direct psychological assessment and treatment to young people and families. This would include cases where there are forensic risks and contextual harms such as child criminal exploitation. These are often complex and require engagement and support from several agencies which provides opportunities for creative multi-agency joint working.

Alongside direct clinical work, there will be an expectation to provide leadership, consultancy, and training to CAMHS and partner agencies to embed psychological and trauma informed care. The role also includes providing specialist consultation around forensic risk and harmful sexual behaviour, and the ability to undertake cognitive assessments where appropriate. There will also be opportunities to contribute to policy work, wider service development, and become involved in co-produced projects including a psychology-led team formulation pathway.

There will also be opportunities for the postholder to provide clinical supervision to qualified staff.

Candidates will be committed to partnership working, hold excellent communication, engagement, and people skills, and have experience of working with marginalised young people in Youth Justice and/or social care contexts.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of…