Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Tooting; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Tooting is looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join their team. The role involves supporting, assessing, and delivering psychological interventions for children and young people with complex needs. Applicants should have post-graduate training in psychology and experience in mental health settings. Offering a competitive salary between £56,276 and £63,176 per annum, this role emphasizes career development and the provision of quality care for the community.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

Rich benefits package

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist.
• Experience working in various mental health settings required.
• Must demonstrate high-level communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments for young children and their parents.
• Formulate and implement evidence-based intervention plans.
• Provide guidance and consultation to other professionals.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Team working

Inter-agency collaboration

Clinical psychometric assessment

Education

Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Post-graduate doctoral training in clinical psychology

Training in post-diagnostic interventions for ASD/ADHD

Job description

Overview

Go back South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Position: Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Band: 7 Hours: 37.5 hours (WTE 1) (Part time can be considered)

The closing date is 09 February 2026

Main duties of the job

• To support the development, organisation and delivery of a Triage and assessment service
• To contribute to the effective working of the NDT team by creating and maintaining databases to track referrals, assessments, interventions and producing reports from this data.
• To support in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the Lead Psychologist and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision and research activities.
• Conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines and undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.
• To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations and to support others involved in such situations.
• Be involved in the pre and post diagnostic offer, by supporting groups and workshops delivery.
• Support screening and reviewing clinical information related to young people presenting with Neurodevelopmental (ND) difficulties, and making onward referrals for assessments withing NDT or signposting to other services as required.
• Be involved in a variety of tasks in the NDT, including liaising with young people/ families/ multi-agency professionals, arranging school observations, managing risk, and offering clinical assessments if indicated.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To provide specialist assessments, including cognitive assessments, of young children and their parents/carers referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and where appropriate, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. To formulate and implement plans for evidence-based interventions, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, to improve the parent/child relationship.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions employed individually and in synthesis, maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses, adjusting and refining formulations or understandings, drawing upon different explanatory models and employing methods of intervention that are based upon evidence of efficacy.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual and the family.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans
6. To provide specialist mental health advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to the care of the young child and their parents/carers
7. To contribute to and/or use evidence-based, integrated working tools and processes, to ensure young children and their parents/carers receive holistic and co-ordinated services in response to their mental health needs.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young children and their parents/carers who are under their care.
10. To monitor progress during the course of interventions, ensuring that all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated in conjunction with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements.
12. To demonstrate high level communication skills, both written and verbal, within all agencies.

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC as an applied psychologist
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach
• Training in post-diagnostic interventions for ASD/ ADHD
• Other relevant training related to neurodevelopment or child development.

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a variety of mental health settings
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• Experience of inter-agency working
• Experience of safeguarding and Child Protection
• Experience of leading case reviews
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of working with neurodevelopmental disorders

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£56,276 to £63,176 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs