Job summary
Join us as a Clinical Psychologist at Inspire our new Children & Young People's Intensive Mental Health Day Service, launching Spring 2026.
Inspire brings together CAMHS inpatient, day treatment and community intensive support to support a truly family-focused, trauma-informed alternative to hospital admission.
Staff will work flexibly across inpatient, day service and community pathways, delivering trauma-informed interventions with young people, parents and carers. Using AMBIT's mentalisation-based, team strengthening approach, you will help co-ordinate complex multi-agency networks, build trust, and embed sustainable skills within families and partners.
Our pathway provides 12 weeks of intensive day service intervention followed by 9 months of community support, , reducing relapse and keeping young people safely at home.
If you are an innovative, reflective and forward-thinking clinician who wants to shape a new service from the ground up, Inspire would love to hear from you.
Developmental posts progressing from Band 8a to Band 8b may be considered, and could include full-time hours during the development period.
Main duties of the job
Lead the provision of high-quality psychological services for children and young people within CAMHS inpatient and Avoiding Admissions services. Deliver specialist assessments, evidence-based interventions, and therapeutic programmes for young people and families. Provide clinical supervision to staff and trainees, consultation and training to partner agencies, and embed trauma-informed care. Promote research, service development, and policy improvement to ensure best practice.
Please see job description for more detail.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
Desirable
- Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Evidence of policy implementation and development
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area
- Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools as applied in mental health work
- Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area
- Up to date knowledge of relevant and national drivers
Desirable
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health difficulties)
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
- 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Desirable
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical psychology or its equivalent as accredited by the HCPC
- To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees
- Leadership/Management experience
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Basic training in Clinical Psychology Management
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
Desirable
- Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
- Evidence of policy implementation and development
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area
- Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools as applied in mental health work
- Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area
- Up to date knowledge of relevant and national drivers
Desirable
- Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health difficulties)
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
- 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
Desirable
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical psychology or its equivalent as accredited by the HCPC
- To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC
- Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees
- Leadership/Management experience
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Basic training in Clinical Psychology Management
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
