Clinical & Counselling Psychologist

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Milton Keynes is seeking a motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for a Fixed term maternity position. The role involves delivering patient-focused care, supervising junior colleagues, and developing leadership skills. Ideal candidates will be HCPC registered and have experience with complex mental health issues, particularly trauma. Our trust encourages professional development within a supportive multi-disciplinary team. This role is essential for enhancing the wellbeing of patients through innovative therapeutic approaches.

Qualifications

• Must have HCPC registration.
• Demonstrated experience in leading or supervising other psychologists.
• Ability to work with clients with complex mental health difficulties and trauma.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist psychological assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Supervise Assistant Psychologists and provide leadership.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to improve patient care.

Skills

HCPC registration

Experience in psychological assessment and treatment

Leadership skills

Understanding of complex mental health needs

Experience with trauma presentations

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent

Job description

This is a Fixed term maternity position for 12 months at Band 7 or Band 8a, depending on experience.

Must already have HCPC registration.

Previous applicants within the last 3 months need not apply.

We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly and compassionate established multi-disciplinary Team.

At CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles. Various prominent leadership roles within the Trust are currently held by Psychologists including: Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Information Officer, & Clinical Directors. We facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas. The professional group is led by our Director of Therapies and our Chief Psychologist, both Consultant Clinical Psychologists.

We are looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic psychologists who are committed to delivering patient-focused care and treatment. We are looking for well-rounded and experienced practitioners.

Alongside delivering therapy interventions this role will also include ample opportunity to develop leadership skills. This will involve supervision of either Assistant Psychologists and Clinical Associates in Psychology or junior colleagues. The Therapies pathway works closely with colleagues across the wider MDT and therefore, this role would involve consultation, training, and liaison across the Hub.

The Community Mental Health Hub in Milton Keynes is needs-led, offering medical, social and psychological interventions to all on a stepped care model. Therapists work with people with complex mood problems, trauma and PTSD presentations, psychosis, and complex emotional needs delivering a range of evidence-based interventions as recommended by NICE Guidance, predominately MBT, DBT, CBT, CBTp, CFT and EMDR within a Trauma Informed ethos. You will be required to work with clients individually and in groups, and with carers and families as required. Liaising and developing effective collaborative relationships with other key services and with lived experience practitioners is an important part of this role.

You will need a good understanding of the needs of people with complex mental health difficulties and comorbid health problems. Experience of working with complex trauma presentations would be valuable.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get:

• To provide specialist psychological/therapeutic assessments of service-users referred to the Therapies pathway upon appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. This will include the use of routine psychometric assessments and measures, observations and interviews where appropriate.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the formulation and implementation of plans for the formal psychological treatment and or management of a client’s problems based upon an appropriate conceptual understanding of the service-users problems in the context of the family and wider system.
• To receive regular specialist supervision from the principal clinical psychologist and where appropriate other senior professional colleagues.
• To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Jan 2026