Clinical Health Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 Pro rata inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 April 2026 |
| Location: | London, N19 5NF |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7778468/455-NLFT-0728 |
Summary
We are delighted to offer the exciting opportunity to lead and deliver a Post Covid/post infection conditions (PCIC) psychology service within the PCIC community MDT, Whittington Health NHS Trust.We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic psychologist who candraw on strong communication and team-working skills to work with MDT colleagues to support patients in their long-term condition adjustment and self-management. The successful candidate will have extensive post-qualification clinical and consulting experience in the area of physical health care. The postholder will become part of the Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) team, enjoying exciting opportunities for mutual learning, service development and continuing professional development. The CHP and PCIC teams value and celebrate diversity and welcome candidates from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. A key working day is Tuesday in order to join midday team meetings.
'Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the HCPC
This exciting senior role involves leading the psychology provision for the Whittington Health PCIC service. The postholder will play a pivotal role in shaping the culture of care by supporting a psychologically, trauma-informed approach, working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues to embed psychological thinking intoeveryday practice.
Key areas include supporting individuals to build self-management skills and improve wellbeing, functioning and adjustment to a range of post viral conditions. Other tasks include contributing a psychological perspective to MDT projects (e.g. onlinepatient peer support) and providing staff reflective practice and training as needed.
The psychologist will be able to work independently and flexibly, providing specialist psychological assessment, clinical formulation, intervention and management recommendations to patients, families and other staff. The postholder is invited to work creatively, drawing on a range of therapy approaches, in individual and group work.
The post involves offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to highly skilled non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures; using research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
• To provide specialist psychological assessments using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate, for clients referred by the PCIC team.
• To formulate and provide specialist psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients, working with carers and significant others as needed, using a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
• To manage individual caseload autonomously and professionally.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, psychosocial and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans and to make appropriate referrals onwards as necessary.
• To devise and deliver group-based interventions, leading in the development and provision of psychoeducational and other groups as needed.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.
***This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 Apr 2026