Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work within secondary care mental health services in Slough and wider Berkshire. The role involves providing specialist psychological services to users with severe and complex mental health difficulties within a multidisciplinary community mental health team. The successful candidate will be reliable, knowledgeable, and possess great IT skills, with an interest in working with psychosis and/or trauma presentations. This position offers excellent career development within a supportive, trauma-informed environment.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological services to users presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties.
- Work as a valued member of the Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies team within Slough Mental Health Service.
- Offer expertise to a wider multidisciplinary community mental health team.
- Complete clear and detailed psychological assessments and collaboratively derived formulations of a service user's presentation.
- Travel independently across Berkshire to fulfil requirements.
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 27 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist who would be interested in gaining additional invaluable skills and experience working in secondary care mental health services. As the successful postholder, you will be working within the Community Mental Health Service in Slough in person, and wider Berkshire (online). You will be offering your expertise to a wider multidisciplinary community mental health team.
This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for a career development, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates, who are keen to work in a closely connected and supportive team, which prioritises relational practice and trauma-informed environment. In particular, we would be interested in psychologists who have an interest working with psychosis and/or trauma presentations.
Main duties of the job
You will work as a valued member of the Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies team within Slough Mental Health Service, as well as the trust Psychological Therapies wider team, and you will provide a specialist psychological service to users presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions, complex/intensive risk management plans and high l
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