About this role
Job summary
Navigo Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children & young people in North East Lincolnshire. The service provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary community mental health and emotional wellbeing service for children and young people, including those in vulnerable groups. An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in our Core CAMHS team. This post would suit someone who is passionate about providing high quality, trauma informed care and has previous experience of working with children and young people, although there is scope to support the post holder to develop their skills and experience so we welcome applications from trainees who are due to qualify in September 2026.. A preceptorship role band 7 to 8a could also be considered.
Please note the earliest start date for this position is 5th October 2026.
Main duties of the job
This post will support children, young people and their families open to our Core CAMHS team, delivering specialist assessment, psychological therapy and interventions for young people across the age range and ability range. The post will also deliver consultation, supervision and lead on service development projects in the team. The Core CAMHS team are committed to working with families using a trauma-informed approach. The team are working towards integration of the Attachment Regulation Competency model as an anchor point for our assessments, support and clinical decision making. Within the Core team we have an established Eating Disorder MDT to offer special support for children, young people and their families presenting with an Eating Disorder. The Eating Disorder MDT also provide consultation and supervision to Core team Practitioners working with children with disordered eating. The Core team are also currently developing their Kinship Care pathway, supporting the Kinship Care
About us
Hello!
We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.
The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.
We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.
Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.
As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.
Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.
We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.
Come and Join us !
Please note: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AI generated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that has been automatically generated.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To autonomously manage a caseload of children and young people referred to Core CAMHS.
To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and therapeutic interventions for children and young people in the Core CAMHS.
To offer psychological interventions both individually to children and young people and dyadically to children and young people and their parent/caregivers referred to the team, based on thorough assessment and formulation.
To formulate psychological treatment plans that are specific to each child and family, based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation, and selectively drawing on appropriate conceptual and theoretical models.
To provide consultation and supervision to partner agencies and services, such as Children's Social Care Practitioners, School Nurses and Health Visitors, Educational Providers etc.
To deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options.
To contribute to complex decision making around the child's emotional wellbeing and mental health needs.
To provide psychological support to children and families who are experiencing (or have experienced) serious emotional trauma, bereavement, or relationship difficulties, and also to provide support to parents, carers and professionals working with such children.
To work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team around the child, providing consultation, advice, guidance, support and teaching to other agencies/professionals such as local authority support workers.
To facilitate multi-agency consultations and contribute to systemic thinking within complex networks supporting young people with social care needs.
To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments including specialised psychometric assessment (including skilled manipulation of test material), neuropsychological assessments, self-report measures, as appropriate), structured observations, clinical interviews, and to interpret and integrate this highly complex data.
To provide written summaries and reports to the multidisciplinary team around the child following assessment and consultation.
To provide ad-hoc support and advice to local authority staff and carers.
To be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated.
To contribute to service development work.
To provide clinical and managerial supervision to less experienced staff.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide general advice to other professionals on risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of care.
Chair/facilitate complex case discussions, reflective practice sessions and multiagency meetings which may involve working closely with other agencies.
To provide clinical supervision for doctoral trainees and assistant psychologists and to develop skills in the area of professional post-qualification teaching, training and supervision of other staff in the delivery of psychological services.
To continue to demonstrate advanced psychological skills in practice and provide support and advice regarding service development and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with children and young people, carers, staff, managers and, other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas.
Offer clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of the service, coordination and management, as agreed by the head of the speciality.
To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex, sensitive and potentially distressing information with children, young people, parents, carers and colleagues.
To communicate psychological formulations, and integration of subsequent interventions within the multidisciplinary team context.
To communicate complex information to young people and carers/relatives in an empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a range of developed interpersonal skills in situations that can be highly emotional, and or antagonistic and require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. challenging complex and maladaptive family dynamics.
To communicate clearly and effectively in multiagency meetings where there may be conflict / challenge / hostility from other professionals.
To manage the workloads of assistant psychologists within the service.
To line manage other multi-disciplinary staff within the team.
To implement and maintain the organisations policies and procedures.
Contribute to the training/teaching of assistant psychologists
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Demonstrate post qualification experience of working as a clinical psychologist with children and families where there are psychological concerns Experience of providing specialist consultation/ training and advice to partner agencies Expertise in maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
Desirable
Expertise in applying a trauma informed approach to working with children and families.
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS. HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees Additional specialist training related to working with children, young people and their families and carers.
Desirable
Additional therapy qualifications (e.g., DBT, CBT, IPT, FT-AN, EMDR, family therapy or systemic practice, VIG, DDP / Theraplay)
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of the legal frameworks regarding children and young people Specialist knowledge of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to client group and settings, and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits underpinned by evidence based practice
Desirable
Have good understanding of Trauma-Informed Care principles
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).
Employer details Employer name Navigo Health and Social Care CIC
Address Freshney Green Primary Care Centre
4 Sorrel Rd
Grimsby
DN34 4GB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://navigocare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)