Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic clinical or counselling psychologist to work within the Brent Integrated Psychology & Psychotherapy Service (BIPPS) and Brent Community Mental Health Hub (BCMHH). The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions, specifically within the Psychosis Pathway. They will primarily work with service users receiving care from the Depot Clinic, focusing on supporting access to psychological interventions. The role requires commitment to the recovery model, team working, and service user/carer involvement, with experience in multicultural settings.
Key responsibilities
- To offer specialist psychological assessment and intervention to patients attending 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 clients mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients 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.
Essential criteria
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Interest in psychosis and related training
- 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.
- Experience of providing psychological support to service users with psychotic symptoms
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological for psychosis and 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
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Psychologist/Counselling Psychologist
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical or counselling psychologist to work within the Brent Integrated Psychology & Psychotherapy Service (BIPPS) and Brent Community Mental Health Hub (BCMHH) .
BIPPS provides psychological therapy to clients experiencing complex mental health problems. The post holder will be expected to provide specialist psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions.
We are recruiting a Band 7 clinical or counselling psychologist for a position within the Psychosis Pathway ( 0.5 FTE). We will consider applications from trainee clinical psychologists due to complete their training this year.
The Psychosis Pathway is a supportive and dedicated psychological therapies -led treatment pathway that is committed to supporting people aged 18+ who are experiencing symptoms of psychosis. Service users supported by this pathway often have been given the diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Bipolar Affective Disorder.
The Post holder will primarily be working with service users who are receiving care from the Depot Clinic, which provides monitoring and medication management. The role will focus on supporting access to psychological interventions to this client group. Training and supervision will be pro
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