Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, and their families. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development potentially focusing on emotion dysregulation and / or less common feeding and eating disorder presentation pathways and / or working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns.

The growing specialist multi-disciplinary team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, OTs, systemic psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a consultant paediatrician and a dietician

Suitable applicants will have experience in a CAMHS setting and have good knowledge and skills related to NICE concordant treatments for eating disorders and common co-morbid disorders such as OCD, depression and anxiety. In addition, applications from clinical psychologists who have an interest in systemic working, and/or experience of working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns would be welcomed.

Main duties of the job

• To offer assessment and evidence based psychological therapies for young people with an eating disorder and their families.
• To facilitate psycho-educational parents groups and other groups.
• To work with co-morbidities, using formulation driven care-planning.
• To implement behavioural management plans.
• To offer consultation to colleagues in other services.
• Support management of ROMs and audit.
• To hold a case load and act as case manager.
• Supervision of other qualified clinical psychologists and trainees, assistant psychologists, psychology placement students and volunteers.
• Attend all multi disciplinary meetings and care planning reviews and contributes to thinking about young people and their families from a psychological perspective.

About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our location:
This post will be based at Springfield Hospital

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

Details
Date posted: 04 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 294CAMHS-8206764-AZ
Job locations: Springfield University Hospital, 15 Springfield Drive, Tooting, London, SW17 0YF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The Community CAMHS Directorate is located within South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust. The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond as well as providing a range of specialist services to a set of wider, regionaland national catchment areas.

Since a major reorganisation of CAMHS services in 2014, the CAMHS directorate has existed as locality Tier 3 teams based in each borough, and dedicated services for Eating Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Assessment, Complex Learning Difficulties, Multi-Systemic Therapy and Emergency Care.

Teams are multi-disciplinary, with an evolving skill set. Skills evolution is led by expressed patient need, focusing on patient value, and developed via analysis of clinical outcomes.

An electronic clinical record and information system (CYP IAPTUS) is in use.

CYP CEDS provides out-patient and consultation services to children and adolescents experiencing an eating disorder and the associated range of mental health and developmental problems for all five CCGs that commission our services.

CYP CEDS is a multi-disciplinary, integrated service with appointments-based outpatient treatment as well as additional more intensive interventions. The MDT comprises consultant and trainee psychiatrists, clinical nurse specialists, clinical psychologists, a counselling psychologist, family therapists, a creative therapist, a dietitian, and aconsultant paediatrician.

The parameters of the service are defined by the 2015 Access and Waiting Time guidance, and the 2016 QNCC-ED standards, providing quick access to evidence-based therapies for all young people with an eating disorder in our catchment area.

There are several additional interventions for Intensive Community Care that continue to be developed, to supplement the core pathways for those who most need it. These include brief paediatric admission mainly to St Georges Hospital with close liaison support, crisis or assessment-focussed home outreach, and Tier 4 in-reach.

Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential

• Postgraduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession. (A/I)
• Masters / Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Family Psychotherapy. (A/I)
• Registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) as a Systemic Psychotherapist. (A/I)
• Evidence of continuing professional development. (A/I)

Desirable

• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality. (A/I)
• Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy. (A/I)
• Training in family therapy for anorexia nervosa (FT-AN/FBT) and/or bulimia nervosa (FT-BN/FBT) (A/I)
• Training in multi-family therapy (MFT) (A/I)

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist with children, young people and their families under supervision. (A/I)
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in CAMHS whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. (A/I)
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist systemic psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months. (A/I)
• Experience of supervising and having completed the relevant training. (A/I)
• Experience of providing teaching and training to professional groups. (A/I)
• Post-qualification experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. (A/I)
• Experience of carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects.

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and young people with eating disorders. (A/I)
• Experience facilitating groups for children and adolescents with eating disorders and their families (A/I)
• Experience treating common comorbidities of children and adolescents with eating disorders, such as anxiety, depression, OCD, self-harm and ASC (A/I)
• Experience supervising more junior clinicians working with eating disorders (A/I)
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role. (A/I)
• The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do. (A/I)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

Employer details
Employer name: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address: Springfield University Hospital, 15 Springfield Drive, Tooting, London, SW17 0YF, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant Psychology & Psychotherapy Lead
Dr Beth Watkins
beth.watkins@swlstg.nhs.uk
02035136793