Practitioner Psychologist

The closing date is 6th Sep 2026

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Job summary

Are you interested in working with Children and Families as part of a CAMHS Team in Basingstoke? The role is to work as a member of the clinical team/service within Hampshire CAMHS, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families, or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training and by participating in systematic clinical governance. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

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Main duties, tasks & skills required

To provide a qualified, high-quality specialist psychological therapy service to individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.

• To be responsible for holding and managing a clinical caseload and to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload and the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients, within the bounds of the service operational policy.
• To use analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
• To clinically supervise psychological professionals and other staff as appropriate.
• To professionally supervise and, when appropriate, manage, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists.
• To provide consultation and advice about psychological issues to other members of the team/service and other professionals working with service users.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
• To contribute to local service developments under the supervision of the professional lead.
• To utilise research skills to undertake service evaluation, audit and research as appropriate and disseminate the results in the service and nationally.

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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

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Job description

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.

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Person specification

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Qualifications

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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).

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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.

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UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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For help with your application, contact:
Tom Killnegray

[email protected]

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Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

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Band

Band 7

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Salary

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£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly

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Contract

Fixed Term

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Duration

12 Month(s)

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Working pattern

Full-Time

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Reference number

348-CFS-12262

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Job locations

CAMHS Basingstoke

Bramblys Drive

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG21 8UN

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Attachments

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Job Description

Job Description - Band 7 - Practitioner Psychologist.pdf – 349KB Opens in a new window

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Additional document 1

EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window

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