Clinical / Counselling Psychologist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	18 December 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	17 January 2026
Location:	Reading, RG30 4EJ
Company:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7692499/371-MHS953

Summary

Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated CBT Therapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist? Are you looking to progress and develop your clinical and leadership skills within an important new area of service transformation? 

We are introducing a new programme of psychoeducational group interventions aimed at people with emotional regulation and emotional intensity difficulties. If you feel passionate about service development, addressing the gap between primary and secondary care and wish to expand your clinical leadership skills, this role could be ideal for you, and we would love to hear from you!

You will be involved in the planning and delivery of a variety of online and/or in-person psychoeducational and therapy groups, including leading on the delivery of a new skills-based group programme where participants can learn new skills to manage difficulties with emotional intensity and related behaviours.

You will be working closely with our Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies (CMHPT) and our Mental Health Integrated Community Teams (MHICS). There will be opportunities for you to contribute to the wider psychological therapies provision depending on your interests and needs, which can include the potential for individual work.

You will be joining a dynamic team that values staff wellbeing and you will be well supported and supervised by a Senior Psychologist. Your work base will be in Reading, although a significant proportion of the service delivery will be online.

We have one vacancy where we are looking to fill with a Senior Clinician. This role can be filled by either a Psychological Therapist (CBT) or an Clinical / Counselling Psychologist. If you are a Psychological Therapist (CBT), please use this link to apply: https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/work-for-us/our-vacancies/#!/job/v7692430
• To work as part of a team to support and enhance the psychological care of adults with significant mental health issues in primary care. 

• To support and lead on the delivery of a variety of psychoeducational and therapy group programmes for people with emotional regulation and emotional intensity difficulties and SMI across Berkshire, together with holding a small caseload of clients requiring individual CBT for SMI. 

• To liaise and work closely with other Psychological Therapists within MHICS and CMHPT in jointly delivering and facilitating the group programmes 

• To participate in the implementation and development of system-wide mental health services that will contribute to improved experience for people with serious mental health problems in primary care. 

• To provide clinical leadership and oversight of the service delivery of the groups aimed at people with emotional intensity difficulties as well as oversight into other digital offers for people with emotional regulation difficulties.

• To supervise and support junior psychological staff in the facilitation of psychoeducational groups. 


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 you to be considered for this role:    
• Post graduate qualification in CBT or doctoral qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or equivalent) or Advanced Mental Health Practitioner with significant experience in psychoeducational CBT-based interventions 
• Accreditation with BABCP or Registered with Health Care & Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Experience and interest of working in mental health multidisciplinary teams / multi-agency environment as well as experience of teaching / training of health care professionals 
• Evidence of specific psychological training in working with clients with significant mental health difficulties 
• Knowledge of working with clients with emotion regulation difficulties
• Experience in leading and delivering psychoeducational skills groups.

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 welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Dr Helen Kyritsi (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on 0118 960 5612 or via email Helen.Kyritsi@berkshire.nhs.uk who will be 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 1 Jan 2026

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