Principle Clinical / Counselling Psychologist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	14 Awst 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	13 Medi 2025
Lleoliad:	Reading, RG30 4EJ
Cwmni:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7419068/371-MHS820

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Band 8b Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services, Prospect Park Hospital, Reading – 37.5 hours / 1.0 WTE (can be fewer hours than this and 30 hours as a minimum)

Are you a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist seeking a role where you can shape practice and bring psychological thinking to the heart of inpatient care? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for a Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join and help lead our Psychological Therapies team within the adult mental health inpatient service at Prospect Park Hospital. This is a key role for a reflective and relational leader who is passionate about embedding psychologically-informed approaches across systems of care.

You’ll work alongside a supportive and skilled team of psychological professionals, under the clinical leadership of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. The post offers a stimulating blend of leadership, clinical work, supervision and consultation. You will be the lead in the team for the pathway for those service users who do or might meet criteria for a diagnosis of EUPD.

There are opportunities for flexible working patterns which would include face to face clinical work as well as home working.

This is a varied and meaningful role, offering opportunities for influence and development at multiple levels. You will:

• Offer direct clinical work, including assessment, formulation and psychological intervention for people with a range of complex needs, often in the context of significant distress and systemic challenges.Services users are likely to have been givenmultiple diagnoses, including psychosis, emotional dysregulation and suicidality often in the context of complex trauma, neurodivergence and substance dependence

• Provide psychological leadership within the inpatient service, including taking the lead on our pathway for individualswho meet criteria for a diagnosis of EUPD.Part of this lead role you willregularly chair professionals’ meetings as well as liaison meetings with community servicesfor those service users who meet the criteria fora diagnosis ofEUPD

• Offer clinical supervisionand line management for members of the Psychological Therapies team

• Contribute to and lead on service development initiatives that centre around trauma-informed careand collaborative practice

• Act aslead Psychologistto one or two inpatient wards throughproviding direct clinical work,regular consultation, team formulation, reflective spaces and teaching

• Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with community services, including our well-established pathway across the Trustfor those services users who meet criteria


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites



The “must haves” for this role:
• Values team-based working and is confident in using psychological ideas to support staff, through consultation, supervision, and training.
• Has experience in offering leadership in clinical settings and is interested in contributing to service development through a psychological lens.
• Has a strong grounding in psychological formulation and therapeutic models, and is experienced in working with adults experiencing complex mental health difficulties.
• Brings a calm, thoughtful and boundaried approach to working in emotionally demanding contexts, with an awareness of personal and systemic dynamics.
• Is motivated to work creatively and compassionately, bringing psychological understanding to complex situations in ways that support staff, patients, and families.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups.

Wewelcome a conversation about flexibility and other questions you might have.Pleasedon’thesitate toemailDr Catherine Evans-Jones oncatherine.evansjones@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.


This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025

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