Clinical ,Counselling or Forensic Psychologist

Overview

In this Band 8a Clinical Psychologist role, you will provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulation and care planning within a community mental health framework. You will work within a psychology team to guide clinical pathways across PCMHN and CMHTs, contributing to service development and staff psychological safety. The role offers broad clinical input, leadership, and opportunities to shape neighbourhood-based psychological care. You will engage in research, audits and service improvements, with a focus on patient recovery and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• enhanced leave package
• health and wellbeing support
• work life balance flexibility
• supportive staff development culture
• opportunity to work across multiple bases
• NHS benefits package

Responsibilities

• Deliver highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations, care plans and interventions with professional direction
• Provide clinical leadership and consultation with evidence-based and bespoke psychological care
• Assist in planning and organising community psychological services
• Offer clinical supervision and risk management guidance to MDT colleagues
• Provide supervision to trainees, assistants, CAPs, MHWPs and supervise qualified psychologists
• Engage in research, audits, and quality improvement initiatives
• Contribute to service development and cross-team collaboration during Neighbourhood Teams implementation

Key requirements

• Doctoral-level training in psychology (clinical/forensic/counselling)
• Current HCPC registration
• Experience as a psychologist at a senior level in the field
• CPD relevant to clinical area
• Experience with diverse client groups and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience teaching, training or supervision
• Ability to work across team and multi-agency partnerships

• ethical values and commitment to equality and diversity
• leadership abilities
• communication and collaboration
• evidence-based psychological interventions
• formulation and risk assessment
• clinical supervision and consultation

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