NHS Veterans' Service Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Part time

Job summary

A mental health service for veterans in London is recruiting a clinical or counselling psychologist to support veterans with complex PTSD through assessments and tailored psychological interventions. The role is part-time, focusing on evidence-based care and collaboration in data management. Essential qualifications include professional registration and specific skills in assessing and treating PTSD. This is a permanent position offering a salary between £56,276 and £63,176 pro rata.

Qualifications

• Completion of Professional Registration is essential.
• Further post-doctoral training considered desirable.
• Skills in complex methods of assessment for PTSD are essential.
• Experience supportive of ex-UK Armed Forces military veterans is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments using appropriate methods.
• Support audit and data collection management.
• Supervise team members in clinical outcome data collation.
• Deliver evidence-based care to veterans.

Skills

Psychological assessment skills

Clinical governance mechanisms

Working with military veterans

Education

Professional Registration

Post-doctoral specialist training

Job description

The NHS Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service – Op COURAGE is recruiting a clinical or counselling psychologist to carry out specialist assessments, deliver veteran‑sensitive formulations, interventions including trauma‑focused therapy and emotional regulation work for those suffering with complex PTSD.

Part of this role will involve supporting and collaborating in audit, patient and service‑related data collection, management and analyses, resulting in the collection of high‑quality data. This will involve both patient‑facing and data administration work. You will supervise members of the team involved in the collation of clinical outcome data collection and in embedding better data collection and management systems within the Service.

This is a 0.4 WTE, 2 day per week equivalent post.

Op COURAGE, based at St Pancras Hospital, operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment. It is an NHS‑led partnership alongside three Forces‑friendly charities, Walking with the Wounded, Stoll and The Ripple Pond.

Job responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessments of referred clients, using interview, formal psychometric and other assessment methods as appropriate.
• Formulate and devise psychological treatment and management plans for referred clients with a range of problems of severity and complexity, including those with challenging behaviours, and provide psychological treatment for such clients using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
• Support and collaborate in audit, patient and service‑related data collection, management and analyses.
• Supervise members of the team (research assistant, senior administrator data, honorary assistants) involved in the collation of clinical outcome data collection and in embedding better data collection and management systems within the Service.
• Contribute to governance and audit within the team, as well as mentoring and supervision.
• Operate to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and deliver safe, evidence‑based, effective, culturally competent care in a timely manner to veterans.

Person Specification – Qualifications

• Professional Registration (essential)
• Completion of further post‑doctoral post‑qualification specialist training (desirable)

Person Specification – Experience of intervention

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management of complex and acute PTSD (essential)
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice (desirable)

Person Specification – Experience and knowledge

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including with acute and complex PTSD, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity (essential)
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult‑to‑treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities, etc.) (essential)
• Experience of audit/outcome measure collation and data interpretation (essential)
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision (desirable)

Person Specification – Good written communication

• Experience of producing reports/assessments/case notes (essential)

Person Specification – Experience

• Experience of supporting ex‑UK Armed Forces military veterans (essential)

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. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

North London NHS Foundation Trust

St Pancras Hospital

4 St Pancras Way

London

NW1 0PE

Employer's website

https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (opens in a new tab)

Compensation and contract

Band 7

Salary £56,276 to £63,176 a year pro rata Inclusive of HCAS

Contract Permanent

Working pattern Part‑time

Date posted 25 November 2025

Reference number 455‑NLFT‑0462‑A

Job location St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PE