Highly Specialist CYP Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/24/2025
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Description
Band: 8a
The Havens is London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), currently based on three sites at Camberwell, Paddington/St Charles and Whitechapel. The Havens provide comprehensive forensic, medical and aftercare services to clients who have experienced rape and serious sexual assault within the past 12 months. We are a longstanding partnership initiative between the Mayors’ Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and NHS England to improve the care offered to clients who have experienced sexual assault and rape. The service is provided by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The Children and Young People’s Service at the Havens (CYP Havens) represents an exciting expansion of service provision, aimed at providing an enhanced service for children and adolescents presenting acutely after child sexual abuse or assault, and ensuring equity of provision with adult services. The Children and Young People’s Therapy Service at the Havens (CYP Therapy Service) provides children and adolescents, and their families, presenting with psychological difficulties post sexual abuse with specialist psychological assessment and brief to medium term intervention (individual and group programmes). Additionally the service provides forensic interviewing of children and young people, alongside being active in audit, research and training.
This is open to job share applications.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Clinical Psychologists with experience of working with children and young people. The post holder must have experience of working with trauma and experience in providing psychological assessment and intervention to children and young people in one to one therapy as well as groups and workshops. Experience of assessing and managing risk in the context of mental health and safeguarding is vital as well as experience of providing short to medium-term therapy.
You will be working closely with the Havens therapies service and CYP Havens, and you will provide supervision to more junior psychologists. You will contribute to the development of the Havens Service, in particular the Forensic Interview Psychology project and participate in audit, research and training in addition to carrying out liaison work with local agencies. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are therefore essential. A willingness to rise to the challenges presented by this area of work and a commitment to providing an excellent service to survivors of sexual assault are also necessary.
You are expected to have doctoral level training in clinical psychology and must be HCPC registered. Experience of working with clients who have experienced sexual violence and trauma are essential.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Kate Madden Job title: Clinical Lead CYP Therapy Service Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 020 3299 1599
The Havens is London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), currently based on three sites at Camberwell, Paddington/St Charles and Whitechapel. The Havens provide comprehensive forensic, medical and aftercare services to clients who have experienced rape and serious sexual assault within the past 12 months. We are a longstanding partnership initiative between the Mayors’ Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and NHS England to improve the care offered to clients who have experienced sexual assault and rape. The service is provided by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The Children and Young People’s Service at the Havens (CYP Havens) represents an exciting expansion of service provision, aimed at providing an enhanced service for children and adolescents presenting acutely after child sexual abuse or assault, and ensuring equity of provision with adult services. The Children and Young People’s Therapy Service at the Havens (CYP Therapy Service) provides children and adolescents, and their families, presenting with psychological difficulties post sexual abuse with specialist psychological assessment and brief to medium term intervention (individual and group programmes). Additionally the service provides forensic interviewing of children and young people, alongside being active in audit, research and training.
This is open to job share applications.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Clinical Psychologists with experience of working with children and young people. The post holder must have experience of working with trauma and experience in providing psychological assessment and intervention to children and young people in one to one therapy as well as groups and workshops. Experience of assessing and managing risk in the context of mental health and safeguarding is vital as well as experience of providing short to medium-term therapy.
You will be working closely with the Havens therapies service and CYP Havens, and you will provide supervision to more junior psychologists. You will contribute to the development of the Havens Service, in particular the Forensic Interview Psychology project and participate in audit, research and training in addition to carrying out liaison work with local agencies. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are therefore essential. A willingness to rise to the challenges presented by this area of work and a commitment to providing an excellent service to survivors of sexual assault are also necessary.
You are expected to have doctoral level training in clinical psychology and must be HCPC registered. Experience of working with clients who have experienced sexual violence and trauma are essential.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Kate Madden Job title: Clinical Lead CYP Therapy Service Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 020 3299 1599
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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