Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join the CAMHS Tier 4 Alternative to Admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment service. You will provide high-quality psychological assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for young people aged 12-18 with complex mental health issues. The role involves risk management, liaison with external agencies, and contributing to the team's learning culture through supervision and training. You will champion diversity, inclusion, and trauma-informed practice to improve outcomes for service users and staff.
Key responsibilities
- Conduct clinical assessments and develop detailed psychological formulations.
- Develop personalised treatment plans in collaboration with service users, carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions using various models and techniques.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team clinicians and multi-agency representatives to ensure integrated care.
- Provide supervision and mentorship to junior clinicians and trainees.
- Undertake applied research and participate in quality improvement initiatives.
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate doctorate in clinical or counselling psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996 or for those who completed their training overseas)
- Registered as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- (Eligibility for) Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Evidence of training and/or interest and knowledge in psychological models or therapeutic approaches relevant to the post
- Commitment to continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant accrediting body
- Experience of working in evidence-based ways with services users (and their carers/families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances, such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics
- Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environments
- Experience of service development and carrying out clinical audits, evaluative research and applying the findings
- Experience of working with, and addressing, issues of diversity, including experience of working with diversity, multiculturalism, and equality of access to the service
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and abilities in the practice of assessment, formulation and intervention, relevant to the specialist modality and service area
- Knowledge and understanding of service evaluation, audit and research and how to undertake these activities in an NHS context, including how to implement learning
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, complex, technical and/or sensitive information to service users, their carers/families and other professional colleagues, both within and outside of an NHS setting
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to support, influence and engage with clinicians, stakeholders and service users to create change and improvement
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for the service, to engage and foster positive relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of the service within the wider health care system
- Advanced IT skills and the ability to navigate various systems and software packages (such as RiO, Outlook, databases, MS Office/Teams, One Consultation and the Internet)
- Able to work flexibly around working patterns as required
- Ability to travel independently between locations in Berkshire to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
Desirable criteria
- Additional training and accreditations (or working towards these) in relevant therapeutic approaches or psychological models to reflect post qualification interests/ specialism (e.g., specific therapy models and accreditations, Health Psychology, Neuropsychology etc).
- Experience of delivering teaching and training to staff
- Experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring and structured guidance to other staff
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our CAMHS Tier 4 Alternative to Admission Day Hospital and Home Treatment service. Our service provides interventions for young people(ages 12-18) presenting with complex mental health issues including eating disorders, psychosis and mania, OCD and emotion dysregulation requiring Tier-4 level care, but who benefit from a more flexible,community based approach.
Working within an innovative and supportive multidisciplinary team and supported by senior clinicians, you will deliver high-quality psychological assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions. You will support with risk management and liaise with external agencies where required.You will contribute to the team's learning culture through supervision, mentoring and training, while championing diversity, inclusion, and trauma-informed, culturally sensitive practice to improve outcomes for service users and staff.
We are based at Wokingham Hospital but require the need for flexibility to support the delivery of our home treatment pathway.
Please note: We welcome applications from final-year trainees, individuals who have completed all training requirements except their research portfolio, and those who
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