Principal Clinical Psychologist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	23 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£70,396 - £80,837 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	22 August 2025
Location:	London, NW9 9QY
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7368496/333-J-HA-0653-A

Summary

Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to join a service at a time of exciting change? Our adult ADHD service is looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists to lead our psychological pathway.

This is an opportunity to shape psychological pathways for adults with ADHD as part of an overall redesign of the service. The priority for the new service is to offer a biopsychosocial approach for people diagnosed with ADHD, and prioritise psychological and social interventions as part of the Waiting Well offer for people waiting for assessments. The post holder will be responsible for developing and overseeing psychological provision in the service, alongside providing assessment and psychological interventions for people referred to the service.

We are keen to invest in the development of new practitioners joining our service to enhance their knowledge, skills, clinical practice, leadership and confidence in working in this area. We are therefore looking for applicants who either have experience in working with people with ADHD or have a good foundation of transferable skills and an interest to develop in this area.

We especially welcome applications from candidates with the valuable experience of the diverse social and cultural communities the Trust serves as we are seeking to ensure our psychology staffing has greater diversity and better represents local communities.



We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist who is enthusiastic about working with people with ADHD and keen to build up the psychological offer for this group.

In this role, you will complete diagnostic assessments for adults, and lead multi-disciplinary diagnostic decision making meetings. You will work closely with colleagues within the MDT as part of the diagnostic assessment pathway and in the post-diagnostic pathway.

You will be responsible for the development and implementation of post-diagnostic psychological pathways, which will include group and individual psychological therapy offers. There are exciting opportunities here to develop pathways that meet the psychological needs of adults with ADHD, from a variety of backgrounds. This role would suit someone with an interest in service development and evaluation, and experience of quality improvement.

You will be responsible for leading a small team of practitioner psychologists offering assessment and psychological intervention, ensuring safety and quality of their work. You will be able to inspire and support your colleagues within a busy service and work closely with the MDT to ensure the provision of high quality assessments and interventions for people accessing the service.

We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here at CNWL. Our Trust is an exciting place to work with a wealth of opportunities available for our staff.

At CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles. Various prominent leadership roles within the Trust are currently held by Psychologists including: Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Information Officer, 3 Clinical Directors. We try to facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get:
• A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme with staff wellbeing at its core.
• An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers
• Flexible working
• Variety of work

We encourage staff input and ideas in relation to moving services forward, improving care pathways and meeting the client group’s needs.

As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives.

• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a psychology service to people seeking assessment for ADHD, and those diagnosed with ADHD and personally provide highly specialist clinical input, including assessment of and psychological intervention for ADHD.


• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.


• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate, functioning as a lead specialist in ADHD


• To ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of other psychologists within the ADHD service, and specifically within the post-diagnostic intervention pathway


• To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.


• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.


• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.


This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Aug 2025

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