Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Milton Keynes is seeking a motivated Clinical/Counselling Psychologist for a 12-month fixed term contract. The role includes delivering therapy, supervising junior staff, and promoting leadership skills within a supportive team. Candidates must have HCPC registration and a strong background in working with complex mental health issues. The position offers a chance to contribute to innovative psychological care and access various professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Access to CPD opportunities

Commitment to staff development

Qualifications

• Must have HCPC registration.
• Experience working with complex mental health difficulties.
• Proficient in delivering evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments of service-users referred to the Therapies pathway.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on service-user needs.
• Supervise and support junior colleagues in their professional development.

Skills

Leadership skills

Experience with complex trauma

Ability to work independently and in teams

Education

HCPC registration

Relevant psychology degree

Job description

Overview

This is a fixed term maternity position for 12 months.

Must already have HCPC registration

We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our friendly 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 -

A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.

An opportunity to work for one of the top 10 NHS employers

Flexible working

Variety of work

Access to a variety of CPD opportunities

We encourage staff input and ideas in relation to moving services forward, improving care pathways and meeting the client group’s needs.

As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke and Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.

• 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 Tuesday 23 Sep 2025