The closing date is 21st Jul 2026
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Anticipated Interview date(s) 29th July
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Job summary
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, compassionate, and highly motivated psychologist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) as a Senior Clinical Psychologist. This is a substantive, full-time (37.5 hours per week) position based within the Havant and Petersfield CAMHS Team. We are a welcoming, supportive, and vibrant multidisciplinary team committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children, young people, and families. In this leadership role, you will provide clinical and professional leadership to the local psychology team, while contributing to the ongoing development of our service.
This role offers opportunities to further develop your clinical interests, whether in specific therapeutic approaches or specialist presentations.
As a member of the local leadership team, you will contribute to service development, clinical governance, workforce development, and the promotion of high standards of care across the service.
Professional Development and Support
You will receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a Principal Practitioner Psychologist and will have opportunities to collaborate with psychology colleagues across the Trust. As part of our county-wide psychology network, you will contribute to innovative service developments and help ensure that psychological thinking remains central to the care we provide.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
The successful candidate will:
Provide high-quality psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for children and young people presenting with a broad range of complex and severe mental health difficulties.
Deliver evidence-based interventions, both individually and in groups, tailored to the needs and goals of children, young people, and their families.
Contribute to neurodevelopmental assessments and multidisciplinary team discussions, with a particular focus on ADHD assessments.
Work collaboratively with partner agencies and services to develop and implement effective care plans and support successful transitions between services.
Play a key role in the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical care pathways.
Provide consultation, supervision, and psychological expertise within the multidisciplinary team to enhance psychological understanding and practice.
Support service innovation, transformation, and quality improvement initiatives while contributing to clinical governance activities.
Supervise and support the professional development of psychologists, psychological therapists, assistant psychologists, and trainee clinical psychologists.
Utilise research and evaluation skills to contribute to audit, service development, and research projects within the team and wider service.
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About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
For forensic psychologists working in forensic settings: Masters degree (with the award of the British Psychological Society qualification in forensic psychology or equivalent).
Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).
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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.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Kezia Crichton
[email protected]
02382317906
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 8a
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Salary
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£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-CFS-11857
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Job locations
Oak Park Childrens Services
8 Lavant Drive
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 2AW
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Attachments
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Job Description
Band 8a - Senior Practitioner Psychologist Job Description.pdf – 297KB Opens in a new window
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Person Specification
Band 8a - Senior Practitioner Psychologist Job Description.pdf – 297KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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