Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Practitioner Psychologist

The closing date is 22 March 2026

Job summary

Are you ready to make a difference to Children and Adolescent's Mental Health services while advancing your career? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Psychologist to join our Community CAMHS team! This is a permanent post of which full time or part time (30 hours) can be offered. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality psychological care and eager to work in a supportive, innovative, fun, and friendly environment, this could be the perfect role for you

You'll work alongside a dedicated team of professionals in a multidisciplinary setting, contributing to holistic and effective mental health care. You'll have the opportunity to be involved in research, service evaluation, and audit projects to shape our therapeutic approaches and policies, as well as local and national policy, whilst ensuring the highest standards of psychological care.

You will also be part of the large Trust wide child psychology team making innovative contributions to ongoing service improvement and compassionate care, and we work towards ensuring that psychology is at the heart of everything that we do. We will support your development by providing regular clinical supervision and we have an excellent track record in progressing our workforce through further training and continuous professional development opportunities. Additionally, we offer a B7 reflective practice group to ensure comprehensive career support.

Main duties of the job

Working autonomously and collaboratively within a supportive team, you'll utilise your expertise in assessment, treatment, and intervention to provide high-quality specialist psychology services to our young people, their families, and carers. You will be providing quality driven psychological assessments and formulations for young people experiencing a range of mental health problems, including CAMHS assessments following referral to the service.

You will use specialist psychological expertise to manage a clinical caseload and deliver a range of interventions to families and young people to meet their needs and goals, through individual, group work and consultation, in line with care pathways.

You will work as part of the MDT and providing consultation and developing psychological knowledge within the MDT and expert consultation to professionals across various settings.

You will supervise and support the development of others in the team including psychology undergraduate placement students, as well as trainee clinical psychologists and other staff members.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Date posted

09 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

348-CFS-10522

Job locations

Ashurst Child and Family Centre

Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 7AR

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC.
* Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK], including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as approved by the HCPC.
* Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC).

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 (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashurst Child and Family Centre

Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 7AR

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashurst Child and Family Centre

Lyndhurst Road, Ashurst

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 7AR

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)