Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - South CMHTs
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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 is a 0.4 wte (2 days/week) fixed-term post for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within Integrated Community Care and Recovery Services, working with adults with mental health difficulties in a CMHT setting. The role involves applying psychological skills in consultation, training, supervision, service development, research, and direct clinical work. It can be offered at Band 7 or 8a depending on experience and is open to job share arrangements. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing complex case assessment, formulation, and evidence-based psychological interventions.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
Desirable criteria
- Additional qualifications in an accredited therapy
- Significant post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients with complex difficulties across adult secondary or tertiary care settings. (for 8a post)
- Experience working in Adult Secondary or Tertiary Mental Health services (for Preceptorship)
- Experience of working with service users with personality difficulties/complex trauma/psychosis
- Experience of running group based interventions for clinical problems
- Post qualification experience and/or training in supervision
- Knowledge and Skills
- Skills in formulation of problems from psychological perspective and implementation of interventions appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- High level knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Personal
- Ability to interact with and to build an sustain relationships with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working closely with others in an MDT setting
- Training/qualifications
- Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
- Additional qualifications in an accredited therapy
- Significant post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients with complex difficulties across adult secondary or tertiary care settings. (for 8a post)
- Experience working in Adult Secondary or Tertiary Mental Health services (for Preceptorship)
- Experience of working with service users with personality difficulties/complex trauma/psychosis
- Experience of running group based interventions for clinical problems
- Post qualification experience and/or training in supervision
- Knowledge and Skills
- Skills in formulation of problems from psychological perspective and implementation of interventions appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- High level knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Personal
- Ability to interact with and to build an sustain relationships with people with mental health difficulties
- Experience of working closely with others in an MDT setting
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £64,750 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
We have an exciting vacancy that has arisen for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist within our Integrated Community Care and Recovery (ICCR) Services working with adults with mental health difficulties in a CMHT setting. This is a 0.4 wte (2 days/week) post based at Longbridge CMHT and Yewcroft CMHT's. This is an ideal post to apply your full range of psychological skills and knowledge including consultation, training, supervision, service development and research in addition to direct clinical work. This is a fixed term post which is available until the end of March 2027.
We are looking for a suitably experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. Based on experience, this post can either be offered at a Band 7 or 8a arrangement and we are open to job share arrangements. It would be an ideal post for those working part time and wishing to spend time in another service or to increase their hours.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and skilled clinician who can work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide a range of clinical services. The individual will have excellent opportunities to gain experience of multi-level and integrated service provision and to further develop skills of complex case assessment, formulation and the application of evidence based psychological interventions, both individual and
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