Clinical Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a caring and innovative clinical psychologist to join a team in the London borough of Ealing. The post involves conducting neuro-psychological assessments for dementia diagnosis and providing post-diagnostic therapeutic options, including groups and individual therapy for patients and carers. You will also support carers of individuals with challenging behaviors and work with patients who have co-existing mental health needs. The role includes providing consultation to promote psychological thinking within the multidisciplinary team and supervising an Assistant Psychologist.
Essential criteria
- Good honors degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS.
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable criteria
- Other related academic qualifications.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Training in clinical supervision for Doctoral and equivalent, trainees.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Specialist employment working with older people or in clinical neuropsychology.
- Experience of working with people with dementia and their carers
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Able to adapt to rapidly changing service demands
- Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods with unpredictable patients (e.g., in the assessment and treatment of patients with complex difficulties).
- Able to function in potentially traumatic circumstances and in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis (e.g., in dealing with patients with serious mental illness, violence, self- harm, sexual abuse).
- Specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice.
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills such as would be required when communicating in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options (e.g. the assessment of specialist clinical conditions and the determination of treatment options), where expert opinions may differ.
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise own service user caseload, treatment programmes (individual or group) involving other staff and other aspects of the work such as research activity.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Post-graduate level knowledge of research design and methodology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment and intervention with families.
- Able to speak other languages present in local communities such as Hindi, Punjabi or Polish.
- Practical knowledge of the assessment and treatment of behaviours that challenge.
- Qualifications and Training
- Good honors degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS.
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Other related academic qualifications.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Training in clinical supervision for Doctoral and equivalent, trainees.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Specialist employment working with older people or in clinical neuropsychology.
- Experience of working with people with dementia and their carers
- Experience of having facilitated/co-facilitated psychological therapy groups.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Able to adapt to rapidly changing service demands
- Able to maintain intense concentration frequently and for prolonged periods with unpredictable patients (e.g., in the assessment and treatment of patients with complex difficulties).
- Able to function in potentially traumatic circumstances and in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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West London NHS Trust
Clinical Psychologist
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you interested in a role where every day is different and where you can use a variety of psychology skills? If so, we are looking for a caring and innovative clinical psychologist to join our team. There is a huge variety of work within this role and you may undertake neuro-psychological assessments which contribute to a diagnosis of dementia as well as provide a range of post-diagnostic therapeutic options. These include providing groups and individual therapy for people with dementia as well as for their carers. This includes supporting cares whose loved ones have behaviour that challenges the care giver. You will also work with patients who have co-existing mental health needs in addition to their cognitive difficulties. You will also provide consultation to help promote psychological thinking within the MDT and the wider system around the patient.
Main duties of the job
The London borough of Ealing is culturally highly diverse and there is a real commitment to meet the needs of the communities we serve. You will be based in the Ealing CIDS West team in Greenford and be involved in ensuring psychology provision is appropriate and accessible for our community. Our teams reflect the cultural diversity of our communities, and we are developing our outreach and co
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