Deputy Head for Talking Therapies / Consultant Psychologist
| Posting date: | 08 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £85,431.00 to £97,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £85431.00 - £97148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 January 2026 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-26-0003 |
Summary
1. Oversee the clinical caseloads of clinical staff working in NHS Talking Therapies , and ensure safe and clinically effective case management of cases. Oversee clinical outcomes and adjust delivery of clinical services to ensure that patients needs are met by the least intrusive intervention necessary to alleviate their conditions according to stepped care model of service delivery in line with NHS Talking Therapies developments in primary care. 2. Ensure that clinical staff working in NHS Talking Therapies implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals with common mental disorders, as outlined by NICE, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 3. Ensure that clinically qualified staff provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred by general practitioners and other primary care staff, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. 4. Ensure that clinically qualified staff diagnose, formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. 5. Ensure that clinically qualified staff, including post holder, make highly skilled evaluations and recommendations about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. 6. Ensure that trainee low and high intensity therapists working in the NHS Talking Therapies services adhere to standardised protocols and supervision standards to produce clinically safe triage assessments and interventions. 7. Ensure that staff exercise full responsibility and autonomy for providing interventions and/or treating and discharging clients, according to service guidelines and agreed care pathways, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions are communicated with the patient, the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis. 8. Ensure that staff adheres to agreed protocols. 9. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to staff in primary care as required, contributing directly to clients formulation diagnosis and treatment plan. 10. Ensure that clinical staff undertakes suitable risk assessment and risk management for all clients and that systems are in place to ensure safe working practices. Provide both general and specialist advice to psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management as required. 11. Ensure that clinical staff communicates in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both clients contact with the service.