Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Chathill; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health service provider in the UK is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to deliver specialist psychological assessments and interventions across various community settings. The role requires a Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and registration with the HCPC, along with experience in diverse clinical environments. Strong emphasis is placed on culturally competent care and resilience under challenging circumstances. Competitive annual salary offered with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Must have experience working with diverse service user groups across various severity levels.
• Ability to provide culturally competent and non-stigmatising services.
• Knowledge of local communities in Newham.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments.
• Formulate plans for psychological treatment in multidisciplinary settings.
• Deliver psychological interventions tailored to individual needs.

Skills

Presentation of complex mental health problems

Knowledge of psychological assessment and therapies

Risk assessment practice

Community psychology approaches

Proficient in locally spoken languages

Education

Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

Job summary

The post is responsible for the provision of specialist psychological input to secondary mental health services and those in the community, particularly those vulnerable to poor health outcomes through poverty and other social inequalities, disabilities and physical health conditions.

Psychological based provision is offered at the individual, group, couple and family level through to teams, systems and community level.

The post holder will offer specialist psychological assessments, psychological formulations and delivery of psychological interventions to the communities we serve in Tower Hamlets. This includes where suitable adapted therapies including Behavioural Activation for Muslim Communities (BA-M), Islamic Psychology and CBT-music with young black men as well a specific role in supporting the Disordered Eating pathway through community engagement and capacity building.

Main duties of the job

Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources (including psychological tests, measures/rating scales including Recovery measures and Quality of Life measures, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and involved others.)

Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems across a range of care settings, based upon a theoretical knowledge base to analyse, interpret and compare complex information in order to design specialist programmes of treatment for individuals, groups and families tailored to individual need.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Details

Date posted: 25 November 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £53,751 to £60,651 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 363-NEW7444922

Job location

East Ham Memorial Building, 298 Shrewsbury Road, Newham, E7 8QP

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached Job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (as accredited by the BPS) or Postgraduate Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
• Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable Qualifications

• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.
• Additional training in community psychology models.
• Ability to travel independently across sites as required.

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Providing specialist psychological assessment, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Planning and exercising clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• The application of psychologically informed interventions in different cultural contexts including working with interpreters.
• Ability to provide a culturally competent and non‑stigmatising service including an awareness of the potential impact of discrimination and disadvantage on mental health.
• Postgraduate level knowledge of research methods.

Knowledge and Skills

• Presentation of complex mental health problems.
• Knowledge of theory and practice of psychological assessment and therapies in relation to treatment of a range of mental health disorders.
• Risk assessment practice and procedures.
• Application of standardised assessments and outcome measures.
• Valuing People Participation in the delivery and development of services; equal opportunities, confidentiality and consent issues.
• Wide range of IT applications, including databases, word processing, presentation software and teleconferencing tools.
• Doctoral-level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Understanding of legal and ethical issues relating to health care and working in the community.
• Community psychology approaches to population mental health and approaches to addressing population health.
• Knowledge of local communities in Newham.

Additional Skills

• Co‑production of care and treatment with service users and carers.
• Demonstrably respectful and collaborative approach to service users, carers, colleagues, other professional contacts.
• Well‑developed skills in communication, orally and in writing, of complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users; interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
• Ability to tolerate ambiguity and to take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
• Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self‑care and to monitor own state, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
• Ability to work independently to maintain agreed caseload and activity levels.
• Proficient skills in the use of Information Technology adequate for Trust Information systems.
• Work creatively, cooperatively, reliably and consistently both as an independent practitioner and in multidisciplinary and team settings.
• Ability to concentrate intensively for substantial periods during service user contact, teaching/supervision sessions, team meetings, preparing written work etc.
• Produce high‑quality professional reports to specified deadlines and other time constraints.
• Proficient in one of the locally spoken languages (Bengali, Sylheti or Somali).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/