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Clinical Psychologist / Mental Health Clinician: CWLD

Achieving For Children

Chessington, KT9 2AAView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£49,056 to £52,194

Contract

Fixed-Term

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

11 November 2026

19 days left

Job description

We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist to join the Emotional Health Service and become part of our team for the next year on a fixed term contract...

The Emotional Health Service (EHS)is a dynamic and progressive multi-disciplinary team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Systemic Psychotherapists and Art Psychotherapists. This role is based in our small team dedicated to children with Learning Disabilities at Moor Lane in Chessington. We have other teams at Richmond (Twickenham base), and Kingston (Chessington and Kingston based) and work closely with our colleagues in Early Help, Social Care, Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) and Education. We have a strong sense of team and work together to support children and young people's emotional wellbeing. We also work to prioritise the wellbeing of the staff team. As a Mental Health Clinician for EHS you will be passionate about improving the mental health of children and young people and putting them at the centre of all you do. You will be part of a team and be afforded many different opportunities to use your skills, including undertaking consultations, delivering interventions, working alongside schools and partner agencies and delivering training.

The emotional health service (EHS) sits within our Education Directorate. The service is a dynamic team of Mental Health professionals with a range of professions such as Clinical / Counselling Psychologists, Systemic and Art Psychotherapists. The service sits alongside our Mental Health Support Teams in Schools. The EHS is focused on providing fully integrated, high quality and swift mental health consultation, advice, training and reflective practice for our social care and education colleagues. This is a newly created service, from November 2025 , following our local independent CAMHS review. There are many opportunities for development. We are a supportive group of professionals who recognise that the emotional wellbeing of the workforce is central to the work we deliver.

Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government.

Experience

Essential

  • Putting children and young people first
  • Be a Qualified Clinical Psychologist with appropriate professional registration with the HCPC
  • Be able to provide consultation and training to a wide range of professionals
  • Have CAMHS experience in working with complex and vulnerable families
  • Have experience in working with people with Learning Disabilities and their networking training

Qualifications

Essential: - Be a qualified Clinical Psychologist; - Current HCPC Registration or equivalent UK registration

Desirable: - Postgraduate mental health qualification e.g PsychD Clinical or Counselling Psychology, MSc Systemic Psychotherapy, MSc Art Psychotherapy

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 October 2026

Last checked

23 October 2026

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About the employer

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Achieving For Children

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