BABCP Accredited Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the City of Westminster is seeking a part-time Senior Perinatal Practitioner Psychological Therapist. The role involves advanced clinical leadership in perinatal mental health services, managing a complex caseload, and supervising junior staff. Applicants must have BABCP accreditation with expertise in delivering evidence-based psychological interventions. The position offers NHS discounts, generous leave, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing and treating complex mental health conditions.
• Ability to build referral pathways and community links.
• Knowledge of evidence-based psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to planning and evaluation of perinatal mental health services.
• Oversee the Perinatal Psychology caseload.
• Provide psychological assessments and CBT-informed treatment.
• Supervise and support band 7 Psychologists and trainees.

Skills

Advanced clinical leadership skills

Experience in perinatal mental health

CBT techniques

Supervision of junior staff

Education

BABCP accredited psychological therapy qualification

Job description

North London Way

We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk, This post is part of the Perinatal Psychological Therapies leadership team responsible for overseeing the Psychology provision in their patch. The Clinical Psychology team across the service comprises one band 8b Clinical Psychologist, band 8a Practitioner Psychologists, band 7 Practitioner Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Honorary Placement Students.

Role Overview

The post holder will actively contribute to the planning, development and evaluation of perinatal mental health services using advanced clinical leadership skills and knowledge to provide training and consultancy in clinical psychology within the specialty area of perinatal mental health. The post holder will be responsible for assessing and treating service users in Camden and Islington. 20% of their workload is expected to be management & leadership and 80% will be clinical interventions. They are expected to hold a highly complex caseload.

The current post advertised is for 1 part‑time (0.4 WTE), permanent role for Senior Perinatal Practitioner Psychological Therapist (BABCP accredited) based in the East Team, with boroughs of responsibility Enfield & Haringey.

Key Responsibilities

• Build community links, referral pathways and provide clinical assessments and evidence‑based interventions both at their borough of responsibility and their team base.
• Jointly oversee the Perinatal Psychology caseload of the East sub‑team (Enfield and Haringey) with another 8a already in post.
• Ensure the formulation of profession‑specific highly specialist care and treatment plans which provide specialist interventions / care to service users with complex mental health conditions.
• Support and supervise band 7 Psychologists and/or trainees, ensuring that the SPMHS Psychology team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence‑based, NICE concordant, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.
• Provision of psychological assessments of referred clients, and the formulation and implementation of CBT‑informed psychological treatment and management plans for a range of problems of severity and complexity.
• Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients in the perinatal period.
• Participate in leading on the delivery and evaluation of psychological interventions within the service.
• Liaise with other health and social care staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients and be actively involved in teaching, training and supervision.
• Maintain and develop the highest standards of practice, through active participation in continuing professional development and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in psychological practice in areas related to the post.
• Opportunities in management, policy and service development as well as research, audit and service evaluation.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.