Clinical and Professional Lead

Clinical and Professional Lead

The closing date is 09 April 2026

This role is an exciting opportunity to lead an established specialist CAMHS Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) service in South West London and St George's NHS Trust. The team is a multidisciplinary team working with young people and their families across Sutton, Merton, Wandsworth, Kingston and Richmond. It provides intensive, evidence-based therapy for young people who struggle with high levels of emotion dysregulation, self harm and other self destructive behaviours in an outpatient setting.

We seek an able and committed CAMHS professional with DBT training to provide high quality clinical and professional leadership in working with young people and families. CAMHS services in South West London have a positive and supportive culture, and the post holder will join a vibrant group of clinicians within the DBT team.

Applicants will have:

• Training and experience delivering DBT
• Experience in working with children and young people in a variety of community settings, particularly with those presenting with complex high risk, emotional dysregulation and self harm
• Experience in working in multi disciplinary settings and accustomed to interagency working
• Knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Procedure

Main duties of the job

Service Description

The post is located in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Directorate of South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond, as well as providing a range of specialist services to wider, regional and national catchment areas.

Community CAMH services have been fundamentally reorganised to efficiently and effectively deliver child mental health assessment and treatment according to the principles that underpin the Care and Partnership Approach and the CYP IAPT programme.

The service is committed to providing data that demonstrates its accessibility to service users, the effectiveness of treatments provided, and also to reflect the experience of service users.

The service is delivered via a number of locality based and specialist teams.

The service is led via structures that coordinate operational management, professional leadership and clinical leadership.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

This post will be based at Springfield Hospital.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

Job responsibilities

• Ensure systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychological therapies service including clinical psychology, child psychotherapy and systemic family psychotherapy to children, young people and their families/carers within the designated clinical service area.
• Supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychology and psychotherapy (P&P) staff and other clinical members of the team by agreement with the CAMHS Psychology and Psychotherapies lead.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service area, working with the CAMHS P&P lead to coordinate psychological assessment, treatment and therapy resources across the teams.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research; propose and implement policy changes within the designated clinical service area.
• Practice clinically within a designated setting, and by example will uphold high standards of psychological and psychotherapeutic assessment, treatment and care.
• Be a source of advice and guidance in relation to risk management and safeguarding.
• Be responsible for the clinical governance structures that support and guide multi disciplinary colleagues providing psychological therapies in community settings in designated service areas.
• Provide coordinated service leadership in designated areas in conjunction with Clinical Leads and Team Managers, advising on service developments.
• Coordinate with Team Managers and Clinical Leads in managing clinical performance concerns.
• Work to promote synergy and connection between local authority, third sector and health services so as to foster joined up care and maximise the benefit of available mental health resources for children, young people and their carers.
• Promote service user involvement in shaping services.
• Promote equality of access to healthcare and awareness of how social difference can influence treatment outcome and service user experience.

Person Specification Training & Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical Psychologist
• Qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
• Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist
• An appropriate professional registration (e.g. as a Practitioner Psychologist under the Health Care Professions Council, or as a Child Psychotherapist with the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists, or with UKCP via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy).
• Intensive DBT training.
• Post doctoral/graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with children and young people.
• Clinical training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidence based approach i.e. CBT, Parenting Skills or other.
• Accreditation with the Society for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

Experience

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist or psychotherapist including experience of working at a highly specialist level with children and young people with a wide range of mental and behavioural disorders, including complex trauma and disordered eating.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in patient and residential care settings.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of service development and leadership.
• Experience of representing psychology or psychotherapy within the context of multi disciplinary car.
• Experience of working with mental health needs in multiple cultural contexts.
• Experience of managing the clinical performance of staff.

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.

Salary

£72,921 to £83,362 a year inclusive of Inner London HCAs