Barnet CAMHS Lead Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £72,719 - £83,505 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Barnet, HA8 0AD |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Posting date: | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 22 Nov 2026 |
Summary
Are you looking for a new senior Psychology role in CAMHS? Would you like to join a warm, thoughtful and inclusive team dedicated to providing flexible, creative, person-centered, trauma-informed and evidence-based support to children and young people who are struggling with moderate to severe emotional difficulties?
If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Band 8b Psychology Lead to work across the Barnet CAMHS Teams based at the Holly Oak Clinic, Edgware Community Hospital.
Take a lead role, in partnership and collaboration with the part-time Psychology Lead and other senior clinicians across disciplines, for developing psychological therapy pathways and model-driven interventions for children, young people and their families/carers in a community CAMHS setting. 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.
Take delegated management responsibility for appraisals, offer supervision to trainee and qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and ensure supervision arrangements are in place for the psychology staff within the Barnet CAMHS service.
Co-lead the monthly Psychology Meeting and oversee the continuous professional development of Psychologists in the service.
Deputise for the CAMHS Consultant Counselling/Clinical Psychologist in their absence.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within the borough service, in collaboration with the Clinical Lead and of the Head of Therapies.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
Propose and implement policy changes within the borough-based CAMHS service and Trust-wide CAMHS forums.
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:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. 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
For more details,please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Nov 2026
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