High Intensity Counsellor | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Uxbridge is seeking an accredited therapist to join their diverse counseling team. The role involves providing therapy to patients and requires recognized professional registration. Applicants must be willing to engage in further funded training and work flexibly in both remote and face-to-face settings. The team prides itself on supportive collaboration while addressing diverse community health needs. This position offers band 6 or 7 salaries based on current qualifications and experience, alongside flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Funded training for further qualifications

Generous paid holiday leave

Qualifications

• Must be fully accredited and registered.
• Experience in delivering different therapeutic modalities.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.

Responsibilities

• Offer between 8 and 10 sessions of generic counselling or 16 for specialized modalities.
• Provide video or face-to-face sessions per patient preference.
• Work collaboratively within a diverse team.

Skills

Accredited Counsellor/Counselling Psychologist

Experience in psychological therapies

Video and face-to-face counseling skills

Education

Accreditation with UKCP, BPC, HCPC, or equivalent

Post-qualifying Talking Therapies modality training

Job description

Accreditation and Qualifications

Applicants must be fully accredited and on the Accredited register of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). This covers Accredited Counsellors / Counselling Psychologists registered with the UKCP, BPC, HCPC or an equivalent professional bodies and/or Accredited with the BACP. Please provide correct details of registration to confirm Accreditation by search of number and not name, on the PSA or BACP 'Find an Accredited Therapist', for shortlisting.

Are you an accredited, experienced counsellor or psychotherapist, looking to work with committed and friendly colleagues in the NHS at Hillingdon Talking Therapies? The entry requirement is for accreditation and a further role requirement is to undertake a further post‑qualifying Talking Therapies modality training to become a qualified practitioner in either Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Person‑Centred Counselling for Depression or Couple Therapy for Depression.

Applications are welcome from both qualified modality practitioners or those requiring this additional training which is fully funded, subject to availability for course capacity allocated to each service.

Job Responsibilities and Working Hours

Our counselling service works to a brief model, offering between 8 and 10 sessions of generic counselling or around 16 sessions for therapy within one of the specialist relational modalities.

Clinicians offer 5 sessions within each working day of 7.5 hours, with adjustments to accommodate service meetings, paid CPD and training and generous paid holiday leave. Our post‑holders work between 3 days (22.5 hrs) and 5 days (37.5 hrs) a week, one day of which must be a Tuesday.

Individual supervision is provided fortnightly with additional supervision for modality clinical work.

Work Setting and Schedule

Staff currently work to a mix of home and site working in order to meet the demand for face‑to‑face work and for team cohesion and wellbeing.

Clinicians currently offer either video or face‑to‑face sessions, dependent on patient choice and clinical need.

Service hours are between 8 am and 6 pm and clinicians are expected to provide some later working hours within their week.

Our primary hub is at Beaufort House in central Uxbridge. There is no on‑site parking. CNWL offers flexible working to meet staff wellbeing for a health work‑life balance.

Team and Service Overview

You will join a friendly, highly experienced and diverse team of clinicians and have opportunities to work in innovative areas of the service including our perinatal and Long Term Conditions provisions.

The Hillingdon Talking Therapies Service is an innovative and progressive Talking Therapies service provided by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. We work in close partnership with our local GP Confederation within North West London, with other mental health services, with CNWL Community physical healthcare teams and with voluntary sector and other specialist services delivering primary care support and treatment, including the primary care eating disorders team STRIDES, services for Young Adults, outreach initiatives supporting those suffering healthcare and economic inequalities and building relationships with community connectors.

We are a supportive, friendly and experience group of clinicians with core training in psychodynamic or integrative counselling models, working within a busy and creative service.

Vaccination Policy

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Banding and Funding

Accredited Counsellors without modality training enter preceptorship positions at band 6 including outer London weighting, to undertake funded training for a further year in one of the relational modality trainings with advancement to band 7. Those qualified as practitioners in a Talking Therapies modality join at band 7 with outer London weighting.

Closing Date

This advert closes on Thursday 1 Jan 2026