Band 7 Psychologist

Job summary
Are you passionate about working with young people and families? Are you looking for a Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, developmentally-sensitive, person-centered, trauma-informed and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?

If so, an opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to work in the generic Barnet CAMHS Teams, at Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware.

This post is located within the multidisciplinary CAMHS 0-18 service, delivering generic and neurodevelopmental assessments and psychological interventions to families living within the borough of Barnet.

Main duties of the job
The Post Holder will:

• Offer specialist CAMHS assessments and interventions to children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting, under the supervision of a senior psychologist.
• Contribute to the work of Barnet CAMHS neurodevelopmental service.
• Offer supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Psychology students and CBT therapists.
• Work alongside MDT colleagues and represent Psychology in MDT meetings, and CAMHS in multi-agency contexts as appropriate.
• Work autonomously within professional Psychology guidelines and exercise responsibility for their continuous professional development.
• Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To plan and implement formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
• To implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

Person Specification
Essential

• Doctorate level qualification
• Experience
• Interview
• Ability to relate to clinical theories
• Understand the importance of working in close collaboration with families and stakeholders
• Able to provide support and supervision to team
• Ability to complete care plans
• Able to demonstrate good clinical report
• Structure of response
• Working with children
• Clear understanding of mental health in children

Desirable

• Any additional postgraduate qualification
• Worked with NHS in the past
• Understanding of NICE
• Prior experience in CAMHS

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Closing date: 08 November 2026
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year Per Annum including Outer London HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-8355989
Location: Holly Oak, Edgware Community Hospital, Barnet, HA8 0AD

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Certificate of Sponsorship guidance is available on the UK Visas and Immigration website.