Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology Developmental Post

Job summary

This role may be eligible for recruitment incentives, please liaise with the recruiting manager for further detail.

Join us as a Clinical Psychologist at Inspire our new Children & Young People's Intensive Mental Health Day Service, launching Spring 2026.

This is a Band 7-8a developmental post opportunity, with structured progression during the development phase.

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.

Main duties of the job

Provide 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. Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to partner agencies. Provide clinical supervision for staff and trainees, contribute to research, audit, and service development, and embed trauma-informed care principles.

The start date will be agreed with the successful candidate to align with the launch of the Day Service in Spring 2026, allowing sufficient time for induction and training prior to service commencement.

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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