Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Band 7/8a Preceptorship

TN United Kingdom; Derby; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join their dynamic team in Derby. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on adult mental health services while working collaboratively with other professionals. With a focus on compassionate care and community support, you will engage in psychological assessments and interventions, contributing to the development of trauma-informed practices. Embrace a rewarding career where your expertise can help transform lives and foster a sense of belonging within a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Eligibility for Graduate membership of BPS.
• Post-qualification training in supervision of other psychologists.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group clinical work jointly with colleagues.
• Promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Psychological Assessment

Therapeutic Intervention

Education

Good Honours degree in Psychology

Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

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26.04.2025

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Job Description:

Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Band 7/8a Preceptorship

NHS AfC: Band 7 or 8a

Main area: Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7 or 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours (minimum 3 days a week considered, up to full time)

Salary: £, - £, pa, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate, and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.

We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

We are passionate about making equality, diversity, and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.

Job overview

Would you like to work alongside other enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in adult mental health? We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Band 7 or 8a, depending on experience with progression by appraisal.

Join our team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and CBT Psychotherapists in our Derbyshire Adult CMHTs, all passionate about providing and developing services for our community and supporting our teams to co-create meaningful change, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations. This is an exciting transformational time for us in developing our services with our focus on ‘Living Well’ Community Mental Health Framework changes and developing trauma-informed care in our CMHTs: transformation movements with collaboration, lived experience, and compassionate relationships at their core and in which Psychological Services have a pivotal role.

If you would like to join our Derby City Adult CMHT, please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate, and Trust. The role available is up to full time with part-time and flexible working options. We warmly welcome inquiries for informal discussions and around options. Please state which Banding you are applying for in ‘Supporting Information’.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to provide individual and group clinical work jointly with your colleagues. You will also promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multidisciplinary practitioners, the wider organization, and contribute to service development.

We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups (CFT, complex trauma, and dissociation supervision).

Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team reports feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.

Working for our organization

You will be based in Derby City CMHT, joining a dynamic group of over staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative, and values-based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place-based and needs-led integrated care across our localities, with trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description and person specification can be found on the job application page.

Key Clinical areas:

Responsible for:

a. Provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred 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 service users, family members, and others involved in the service user’s care.

b. Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.

c. Implementing a range of highly specialized psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required and to monitor and evaluate progress of interventions.

d. Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

e. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility within the context of multidisciplinary team working, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users.

f. Consulting, advising, and/or supervising colleagues from other disciplines on the psychological formulation and management of patients with mental health problems, particularly in areas of specialist knowledge.

g. Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.

h. Implementing case management including working within the framework of the Care Programme Approach, fulfilling the role of care co-ordinator as appropriate; initiating planning and review of care plans involving service users, carers, and others involved in the care package, in this process.

i. Assessing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk to minimize this risk to patients, other people, and oneself, and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

j. Communicating orally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of service users, to referrers and others involved in the service user’s care on a need-to-know basis.

k. Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, General Practitioners, and other primary Health Care Workers.

l. Attending clinical meetings, case reviews, and case conferences as appropriate.

m. Maintaining/managing waiting lists for referrals to psychological services within the teams where the post holder is based as required

n. Carrying out other clinical duties as may be agreed with the Chief Psychologist and Lead Psychologists.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above). Eligibility for Graduate membership of BPS

Post–graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 6 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the as a Practitioner Psychologist by the HCPC

Eligible for Chartered status of BPS

Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists

Post qualification specialist training/experience of assessment/intervention for people with complex mental health problems

Desirable criteria

Post qualification training in a therapy model

Chartered status with BPS

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with clients across a variety of settings

Commitment to developing the specialist area of expertise relevant to the post through significant training, personal study, etc

Desirable criteria

Expertise and interest in the specialist area relevant to adult mental health

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance, and relate effectively in an emotive and hostile environment

Desirable criteria

Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets

Other

Essential criteria

Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Helen Cadman

Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Email: information

Joanna Miatt

Consultant Clinical

Contact: Croucher

Consultant Clinical

Further contact: The Recruitment Team, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, 1st Floor Kingsway House (Entrance D), Kingsway, Derby, DE 3LZ, Telephone: [number]