Specialist Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Band 7

Main area Children & Young People Services Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday
- Friday) Job  
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Site Highpoint House Town Greenwich Salary £55,524 - £62,652 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 29/09/2026 23:59

Greenwich CAMHS is pleased to offer a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist post within the Adolescent Team. We welcome applications from trainees qualifying this year and current Band 7 psychologists seeking to broaden their experience.

The post holder will provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to young people with complex mental health needs, including assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions. The multidisciplinary team works within an Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) framework, supporting collaborative work with young people, families and professional networks.

The successful candidate will play a key role within a supportive psychology discipline and multidisciplinary team, contributing to psychologically informed care through consultation, supervision and advice. The role offers opportunities to supervise Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists, contribute to service development and Quality Improvement projects, and develop leadership skills.

The post holder will join a supportive psychology team within Greenwich CAMHS, benefiting from high-quality supervision, CPD opportunities and psychology networks across the three Oxleas boroughs.

Oxleas offers flexible working, excellent training and development opportunities, wellbeing support, staff networks and a range of employee benefits. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace through our Building a Fairer Oxleas for All (BAFO) programme.

Please see the attached Job Description for a detailed description of duties. The post holder will play a key role within a supportive psychology discipline and multidisciplinary team. The role includes opportunities to provide supervision to Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists, offer consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, and contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and leadership activities.

The successful candidate will provide evidence-based specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for children, young people and their families accessing the service.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, childrens centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of location in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
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