8a Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist/CBT Therapist
| Posting date: | 20 January 2026 |
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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: | 03 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, N1 5LZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9293-26-0038 |
Summary
Key Working Relationships To work closely with the other clinical/counselling psychologists working in the locomotor service. To develop and maintain good working relationships with all staff in the Locomotor service, with the purpose of facilitating patient care, planning and dissemination of relevant information. To liaise with relevant others in the locomotor service, Primary Care and Acute Trusts and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care. GPs Voluntary Sector providers Service Users and their families/carers The post holder will be supervised by a senior psychologist and be accountable to the Leads of Psychological Services in pain management and ME/CFS 2. Functional Responsibilities 2.1 Clinical responsibilities: Provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex data from a variety of sources. Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology, employing evidence based interventions (group/individual). To provide consultation and joint interventions as appropriate with members of pain service/locomotor service. Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups within primary and community care settings, including psycho-education sessions. Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. Communicate across language and cultural barriers, including working for sustained periods of time by communicating with patients, carers or groups through professional interpreters or advocates. Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive or contentious information concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and progress of patients in both verbal and written formats. To develop active clinical strategies for managing the waiting-list. To monitor and evaluate the impact of these strategies, and to modify strategies as needed Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients as appropriate 2.2 Supervision and service management Take part in regular professional clinical supervision 2.2 Supervision and service management Take part in regular professional clinical supervision Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes. Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate. To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development: 1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. 4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists. 2.3 Information management. Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service. To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS). To produce clinical reports/letters. To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research. 2.4 Research, evaluation and development: To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary. To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision. Employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (including trainee and qualified psychologists, and members of other staff groups) through the development and delivery of teaching, training and supervision programmes. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate. Ensure that all members of the Locomotor Service and Pain Service and ME/CFS have access to a psychologically-based framework for the understanding and care of patients and families/carers referred to the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. This includes ensuring that a psychological perspective is provided in a wide range of settings where patient care is discussed, planned and organised. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainee clinical/counselling psychologists as appropriate. To contribute to the pre - and post-qualification teaching of clinical/counselling psychology, as appropriate. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. To perform the following roles in relation to management, recruitment, policy and service development: 1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit. 2. To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. 3. To assist in managing the workloads of band 7 and trainee psychologists, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures. 4. To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists. 2.3 Information management. Maintain electronic data systems for monitoring activity and outcomes across service area. Ensure appropriate use and administration of such systems by other members of staff within the service. To use appropriate computer software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS). To produce clinical reports/letters. To carry out literature searches relevant to clinical work and/or research. 2.4 Research, evaluation and development: To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research when necessary. To present research/evaluation findings in local settings, as appropriate. To undertake, when necessary, project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.