Senior Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 04/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Gender Identity Service at Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for transgender and gender diverse adults, working within NHS England guidelines. The position involves contributing to service development, supervising trainees, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. It offers an opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills and make a significant impact in people's lives.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable and excellent communication skills - written, verbal and presentation
- Knowledge and Experience
- Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate
- HCPC Registration/ Working towards
- Experience of delivering psychological care across a range of settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, including presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Further 50-hours of clinical supervision/ working as CP for 12-months
Desirable criteria
- Formal training in supervising other psychologists
- Post-doctoral training in working with Gender, sex and relationship diversity
- Completion of the 'Professional Certificate for Gender Identity Healthcare Professionals'
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in using complex methods of psychological assessment
- Skills in providing psychological consultation
- Experience of teaching/ training or supervision
- Experience of delivering group interventions
- Experience of patient involvement and co-production activities
- Experience of working across diverse contexts
- Further training in working with neurodivergence
- Behaviours and Values
- A reflective practitioner
- Approachable to the MDT
- Strong professional demeanour
- Knowledge and Experience
- Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care and anti-oppressive practice
- Skills and abilities
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of the healthcare needs of transgender and gender diverse clients
- Knowledge and experience of working with neurodivergent clients
- Awareness of the Levy Report (2025) and it's recommendations
- An understand of quality improvements projects
- Knowledge of relevant standards, guidelines and legislation
- Behaviours and Values
- Demonstrable and excellent communication skills - written, verbal and presentation
- Knowledge and Experience
- Clinical or Counselling Psychology Doctorate
- HCPC Registration/ Working towards
- Experience of delivering psychological care across a range of settings
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course, including presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Further 50-hours of clinical supervision/ working as CP for 12-months
- Formal training in supervising other psychologists
- Post-doctoral training in working with Gender, sex and relationship diversity
- Completion of the 'Professional Certificate for Gender Identity Healthcare Professionals'
- Skills and Abilities
- Skills in using complex methods of psychological assessment
- Skills in providing psychological consultation
- Experience of teaching/ training or supervision
- Experience of delivering group interventions
- Experience of patient involvement and co-production activities
- Experience of working across diverse contexts
- Further training in working with neurodivergence
- Behaviours and Values
- A reflective practitioner
- Approachable to the MDT
- Strong professional demeanour
- Knowledge and Experience
- Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care and anti-oppressive practice
- Skills and abilities
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of the healthcare needs of transgender and gender diverse clients
- Knowledge and experience of working with neurodivergent clients
- Awareness of the Levy Report (2025) and it's recommendations
- An understand of quality improvements projects
- Knowledge of relevant standards, guidelines and legislation
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 6d
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Job summary
Join our Gender Identity Service as a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary Gender Identity Service at NHFT. You'll play a key role in delivering specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for transgender and gender diverse adults. You will be working within NHS England guidelines to support individuals throughout their transition pathway. As part of an Outstanding-rated Trust, you'll contribute to high-quality, person-centred care while collaborating closely with colleagues across psychology, psychiatry, speech and language therapy, nursing and peer support.
This role offers the opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills, contribute to service development and research, supervise trainees and assistants, and help shape an evolving national service. If you're motivated by meaningful, values-driven work and want to make a real difference in people's lives, we'd love to hear from you.
_We are able to support a band 7 preceptorship to the right candidate with the expectation that within 12-months you move up into the band 8a._
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations and evidence-based interventions for adults accessing the Gender Identity Service.
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