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Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 5 months (Fixed-term contract ending 31st March 2027) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 333-J-KC-0990
Site Hathaway House Town London Salary £58,133 – £65,261 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2026 23:59
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical or counselling psychologist to work in our Community Mental Health Hub as part of an integrated multidisciplinary service designed to deliver a transformed model of care. This is a fixed-term role designed to help the service reduce Psychology service waiting times.
The team works with clients with complex mental health problems, including complex emotional needs, psychosis, bipolar affective disorder, anxiety disorders, recurrent depression and complex PTSD. The post holder will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessment and effective evidence-based interventions.
We are interested in candidates with training and experience in models such as CBT, CBTp, FI, MBT, CAT, DBT, EMDR and ACT. We would like to encourage candidates who are interested in undertaking DBT diploma training to apply for this post.
The post holder will have a commitment to the recovery model, teamwork, and service user and carer involvement. Experience of working with diversity in a multicultural setting is vital. Strong teamwork skills are required.
You will be part of a supportive group of colleagues, with good supervision structures and access to opportunities within the wider Trust for the development of special interests. The service is supportive of continuing professional development and has close links with regional Clinical Psychology training courses.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work in the North Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Hub. The Hub offers a range of interventions for clients presenting with a variety of complex emotional and social difficulties. The Hub provides care for those clients whose needs cannot be adequately met within a briefer treatment framework.
The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy for clients with complex mental health problems. They will also deliver aspects of the psychosocial group programme in the Hub. The psychologist will be expected to offer advice, training and consultation to other members of the team and to non-professional carers.
The post-holder will attend weekly team meetings and case discussion forums. They will have an active role in managing referrals and planning clinical care, and will contribute to the ongoing development of effective recovery-oriented treatment models. They will also play an active role in initiatives to ensure optimal use of psychological therapy resources, so that these are widely accessible and offered in a timely manner. The post-holder will support the team in assessing the psychological and social needs of patients referred to the service, ensuring that psychological needs and factors are given due consideration in the care planning process.
Working for our organisation
The catchment area of the post is the north of the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The Community Mental Health Hub is based at Hathaway House.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London’s population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and Central and North West London.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination, as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and, of course, patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To offer specialist psychological assessment and intervention to patients referred to the service
- To provide specialist advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems.
- To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
- To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of treatment.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology or its equivalent as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Interest in taking up DBT diploma training
Experience
- Assessed experience of working in a CMHT or similar complex care service working with patients with complexity and co-morbidity
- Relevant experience of exercising clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of representing Psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of supervising other mental health staff.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Post-Qualification practice of CBT or other evidence-based psychological therapies.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation and policy in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialized psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Post-qualification training and accreditation in CBT or other evidence-based psychological therapies
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI can be used as a support tool, not a replacement for the applicant’s own work.Applications must remain personal, accurate, and reflective of the candidate’s real experience.AI-generated content must not misrepresent skills, qualifications, or experience.Over reliance on AI-generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant’s chances of success.
We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
- Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system
- Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
- If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Ofer Barr Job title Clinical Psychologist Email address ofer.barr@nhs.net Telephone number 020 8206 6971 Additional information
Ofer Barr – Clinical Psychologist – ofer.barr@nhs.net
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