Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist, Long COVID
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 pro-rata, incl. high cost area supplement/ inner London weighting |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 August 2025 |
| Location: | LONDON, NW1 0PE |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7312592/455-NLFT-0250 |
Summary
A Vacancy at North London NHS Foundation Trust.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) are hosting exciting 12-month fixed term posts that involve designing and leading the provision of specialist long COVID psychology services in boroughs in north central London.
Successful candidates will be qualified clinical/counselling/health psychologists or CBT therapists with a strong academia background, excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with people with long-term health conditions such as long COVID (post COVID syndrome). Enthusiasm, confidence and the ability to work flexibly and without close direction are essential, alongside project management and experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Post holders will become part of the friendly and dynamic long COVID professional community in north central London and will have opportunities for continuing professional development, specialist supervision and professional peer support via NLFT.
These roles offer the opportunity to become integral members of post COVID service community teams in north central London boroughs, working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues to provide a holistic post COVID community service that includes psychology interventions, education and facilitated peer support.
Post holders will provide highly specialist psychological assessment (including screening and triage), intervention and treatment (individual and group) for individuals with ongoing post COVID health difficulties and related psycho-social difficulties. Integrated, holistic services will be delivered in collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues, with the aim of supporting individuals to build self-management skills and improve well-being, functioning and adjustment to post COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID. Where needed, post-holders will also provide onward triage for clients referred from post COVID teams.
These posts include taking opportunities to offer training and consultation. They also offer the opportunity to work creatively to design and deliver evidence-based psychology services and pathways for people with long COVID.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) will employ all postholders. Honorary contracts will be initiated with north central London borough long COVID community teams where postholders will provide clinical services - this advert is for a postholder who will work in Camden's long COVID community recovery service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
NLFT will provide supervision, line management and relevant CPD for the post-holder. NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details about the main responsibilities of this role, please see the full job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Jul 2025
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) are hosting exciting 12-month fixed term posts that involve designing and leading the provision of specialist long COVID psychology services in boroughs in north central London.
Successful candidates will be qualified clinical/counselling/health psychologists or CBT therapists with a strong academia background, excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with people with long-term health conditions such as long COVID (post COVID syndrome). Enthusiasm, confidence and the ability to work flexibly and without close direction are essential, alongside project management and experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Post holders will become part of the friendly and dynamic long COVID professional community in north central London and will have opportunities for continuing professional development, specialist supervision and professional peer support via NLFT.
These roles offer the opportunity to become integral members of post COVID service community teams in north central London boroughs, working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues to provide a holistic post COVID community service that includes psychology interventions, education and facilitated peer support.
Post holders will provide highly specialist psychological assessment (including screening and triage), intervention and treatment (individual and group) for individuals with ongoing post COVID health difficulties and related psycho-social difficulties. Integrated, holistic services will be delivered in collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues, with the aim of supporting individuals to build self-management skills and improve well-being, functioning and adjustment to post COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID. Where needed, post-holders will also provide onward triage for clients referred from post COVID teams.
These posts include taking opportunities to offer training and consultation. They also offer the opportunity to work creatively to design and deliver evidence-based psychology services and pathways for people with long COVID.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) will employ all postholders. Honorary contracts will be initiated with north central London borough long COVID community teams where postholders will provide clinical services - this advert is for a postholder who will work in Camden's long COVID community recovery service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
NLFT will provide supervision, line management and relevant CPD for the post-holder. NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details about the main responsibilities of this role, please see the full job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Jul 2025