CAMHS LIST Clinical / Counselling Psychologist – Band 8a – 0.8WTE
A compelling opportunity to lead and shape crisis mental health care for children and young people
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Liaison and Intensive Support Team (LIST) at Band 8a level. This role combines advanced psychological practice with clinical leadership, supervision, and service development.
Step into a senior psychological role where your expertise will shape the delivery of crisis and intensive community mental health care. As a CAMHS LIST Psychologist, you will play a key role in supporting children and young people experiencing significant emotional distress and complex mental health needs, while influencing service development and clinical practice.
Join a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team committed to delivering compassionate, evidence-based, and responsive care at times of crisis.
If you are an experienced and passionate psychologist ready to lead, innovate, and make a meaningful difference, this is your opportunity to thrive.
You will work with children and young people presenting with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs, providing specialist psychological input within crisis and intensive support pathways.
In this role, you will:
Deliver specialist psychological assessments and formulations for children and young people presenting in crisis.
Provide evidence-based psychological interventions (e.g. CBT, DBT-informed, systemic or trauma-informed approaches), tailored to individual need.
Offer psychological consultation and formulation to the multidisciplinary team to support complex decision-making.
Provide clinical leadership within LIST, supporting psychologically informed care across the service.
Work flexibly across community, home, and acute settings, including liaison with acute hospitals.
Contribute to risk formulation and management of high-risk presentations.
Supervise, mentor and support junior psychology staff, trainees and MDT colleagues.
Contribute to the operational and clinical development of the service, including pathway design and improvement initiatives.
Lead or support audit, service evaluation and research activities.
Work collaboratively with partner agencies to support young people and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions.
At CNWL, our teams are united by a shared commitment to delivering outstanding, patient-centred care. You will be joining an organisation that:
Invests in your professional and leadership development.
Supports progression into senior clinical, academic or strategic roles.
Encourages innovation, service transformation and continuous learning.
Values diversity and promotes an inclusive working culture.
You will benefit from strong leadership support, regular supervision, and opportunities to influence service direction.
About Milton Keynes CAMHS
You will be part of Milton Keynes CAMHS, a growing and innovative service delivering responsive and evidence-based mental health care for children and young people.
A well-established crisis pathway through the LIST service, with ongoing transformation opportunities.
Strong partnership working with acute hospitals, GPs, schools, children’s services and voluntary sector organisations.
A collaborative, supportive multidisciplinary team culture.
A commitment to staff wellbeing, supervision and professional development.
For further information, please visit the Milton Keynes CAMHS website. Milton Keynes CAMHS : : Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking a practitioner who brings:
Doctoral level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology and HCPC registration.
Extensive CAMHS experience, including work with complex and high-risk presentations.
Advanced skills in psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention.
Experience of working within crisis, intensive support, or acute care pathways (desirable).
Strong leadership capability, with experience influencing multidisciplinary clinical practice.
Experience in supervision, teaching or mentoring of junior staff and trainees.
An excellent team player who actively contributes to a supportive, collaborative multidisciplinary culture and role-models psychologically informed practice.
Strong communication and consultation skills, including multi-agency working.
A commitment to service development, quality improvement and clinical governance.
High levels of resilience, professionalism and a passion for improving outcomes for young people.
Join Us in Making a Difference
If you are ready to bring your psychological expertise , leadership and passion to a role that directly supports young people at their most vulnerable, we would love to hear from you.
Together, we can deliver compassionate, effective care and improve outcomes for young people in crisis.
