Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 08 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,156.00 to £71,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, W10 6DZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-1258 |
Summary
The post-holder will be based in the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Home Treatment Teams and will be part of both the boroughs Mental Health Services and acute mental health psychology teams, supervised by the Acute Psychology Lead. Home Treatment Teams provide a service for adult service users experiencing mental health crisis requiring intensive home-based support and treatment. The service aims to enable clients to be cared for at home during crisis, rather than needing to go into Hospital. The service also supports clients in their transition from hospital back to their homes. Therefore, the post holder will be required to travel to service users homes. The post-holder will be responsible for providing a psychological therapy service providing direct care to service users and their families offering assessment, formulation, risk assessment and brief evidence-based interventions when indicated. This will include providing recommendations for psychological therapy to support service users recovery. The post-holder will also offer indirect work ensuring that all members of the multidisciplinary team have access to a psychological framework for understanding the service users needs. This will be provided by giving psychological consultation, contributing in clinical meetings and team formulation. Thus, contributing to the formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans of service users. The development of the psychological framework in the multidisciplinary team will be supported by teaching, training and supervision provided by the post-holder and the wider crisis and borough psychology teams. The post holder will work as an integrated clinical member of a multi-disciplinary team, which will include responsibility for ensuring the systematic provision and governance of a high-quality specialist Clinical/Counselling Psychology service. The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. The post holder will participate as a senior clinician and be an integral part of the leadership team involved in the development and delivery of a high-quality service. Supervision of the two assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists will be included as part of this role. It will also include being present and contribute to clinical and senior team meetings, facilitating reflective spaces for the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) including debriefs and being actively involved in the maintenance of Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (QNCRHTT) accreditation. As an autonomous practitioner one will be responsible for their own work working within their professional guidelines and the overall framework of the services policies and procedures. The post holder will offer post incident support to staff for their wellbeing and psychological safety. Please see detailed Job and Person Description in attached documents.