Clinical & Counselling Psychologist - Development Role

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in the UK is looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join their team in Worcestershire. The successful candidate will provide critical psychological assessments and interventions within community mental health services, supporting diverse service users. This development role offers the chance for career progression, starting at Band 7 and moving to Band 8a on meeting development benchmarks. Candidates with relevant qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply in this dynamic mental health environment.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Great maternity and paternity support

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological interventions.
• Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment methods.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in psychology.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments and develop interventions.
• Support community-based mental health services.
• Adhere to clinical guidelines and participate in supervision.

Skills

Clinical responsibility for patient care

Multi-disciplinary working

Psychological assessments

Conducting clinically relevant research

Supervised practice experience

Education

BSc/BA Honours degree in Psychology

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology

Job description

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Development Role

The closing date is 15 February 2026

We would like to appoint aClinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the AMH Neighbourhood MentalHealth Services (NMHS) in Worcestershire. Weare a pilot site for the Transformation Model working in the communityconsidering local need and linking with community services.

The development role starts on Band 7moving to Band 8a on successful completion of a development plan. We welcomeapplications for full/part time working. We provide face to face and virtualinterventions as clinically appropriate.

TheNMHS teams have integrated psychological pathways for individuals withmoderate/severe, severe/enduring and psychosis/bipolar presentations. The post holder will work on themoderate/severe pathway, applying Clinical/Counselling Psychology core valuesand clinical practice, working with a diverse service user group and with arange of complex mental health needs.They will encourage empowered service users to be active in theirownrecovery and encourage trauma informed care across the NMHS.

Main duties of the job

The post is integral to the NMHS, working with otherpsychologists and mental health professionals. They will be a valued member ofthe psychology provision within the Trust.

As a development role, supported personal andprofessional development will be a priority.

They will provide psychological assessments leading tothe development of psychological formulations and individual and/or groupinterventions.

They will receive both clinical supervision and linemanagement. Across the service we offera variety of supervision for evidence-based models and invest in model specificsupervision.

They will contribute to the development ofcommunity-based adult mental health services. This would be in line with keynational and local priorities and with local partners. This includes contributing to the appliedpsychology ways of working as appropriate. This work will endeavour to includemore co-produced psychologically and trauma informed service delivery.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

The development role would commence on aBand 7 moving to Band 8a on successful completion of the development plan. Copies of both job descriptions are includedin the supporting documents.

Alongside the Band 7 Job Description andPerson Specification. The post holderwill also:

Behave consistently with and promote the values ofthe Trust

Adhere to HCPC practice guidelines

Implement the psychology provision guidelines and trustpolicies

Evaluate referrals, undertake the assessment,treatment, and management of patients with psychological difficulties with avarying range of complexity and aetiology with reference to clinical need andservice capacity

Support the teams in maintaining targets within thepsychology provision

For full detail of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience required specific to the role and clinical area
• Experience of multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of conducting clinically relevant research
• Significant experience of supervised practice including working with families and care organisations
• Experience of assessing and providing a wide range of psychological interventions to a wide range of patients presenting with a full range of clinical severity
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for a patients psychological care and treatment
• Experience in appropriate and up to date methods in dealing with patients who may be very distressed, have cognitive impairment, may be aggressive, or have a history of developmental trauma
• Experience of strategic planning and service development
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to trainees, assistant psychologists and/or other professionals

Additional Criteria

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post
• Previous publications in either peer reviewed academic or professional journal and/or books

Knowledge

• Knowledge required specific to the role and clinical area
• Advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of psychological approaches and assessment for people with psychological problems, including specialised psychological assessments and interventions
• Evidence of regular professional training and experience as required by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) in order to maintain exceptionally specialist skills in psychotherapy
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidance and their implications for clinical practice
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including the use and limitations of complex multivariate data analysis and qualitative methods as practiced within the field of Clinical /Counselling Psychology.

Qualifications

• BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology
• Post graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Evidence of regular continuing professional development through further professional training and experience, as required by the
• HCPC and the BPS
• Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS
• Registered with HCPC as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpro rata for part time