Psychotherapist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks an experienced psychotherapist for the Community Mental Health Service in Slough. This role involves providing specialist psychological services to individuals with complex mental health needs. Candidates should be UKCP or BPC accredited and possess significant experience in handling serious mental health conditions. Benefits include flexible working, generous leave, and excellent career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Learning and career development

Cycle to Work scheme

Wellbeing services

Retail discounts

Staff networks

Generous parental leave

Free parking

Qualifications

• Accredited as a psychotherapist.
• Experience with clinical severity across various settings.
• Ability to conduct clear psychological assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological service to users with severe mental health issues.
• Manage complex risk management plans and multiagency work.
• Travel independently across Berkshire.

Skills

Accredited with UK Council for Psychotherapy

Experience working with service users

Ability to complete psychological assessments

Experience with highly distressing circumstances

Job description

Overview

This is an exceptional and exciting opportunity for a psychotherapist who would be interested in gaining additional invaluable skills and experience working in secondary care mental health services. As the successful postholder, you will be working within the Community Mental Health Service in Slough and wider Berkshire, offering your expertise to a wider multidisciplinary community mental health team.

This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for career development, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates who are keen to work in a closely connected and supportive team.

Responsibilities

• Work as a valued member of the Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies team within the Slough Mental Health Service and the trust Psychological Therapies wider team, providing a specialist psychological service to users presenting with severe/complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions, complex/intensive risk management plans, and high levels of multiagency work.
• Be reliable and knowledgeable, with great IT skills and familiarity with various systems and software packages.
• Be able to travel independently across Berkshire.

Values

• "Caring for and about you" is our top priority.
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
• Working together with you to develop innovative solutions.

Wellbeing & Benefits

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service, with the opportunity to buy and sell.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme, including electric vehicles.
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality.
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites.

Must haves

• Accredited with UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) as a psychotherapist.
• Experience working in evidence‑based ways with service users (and their carers/families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Ability to complete clear and detailed psychological assessments and collaboratively derived formulations of a service user’s presentation.
• Experience dealing with highly distressing or emotional circumstances such as serious mental illness, child and sexual abuse, exploitation, and complex family dynamics.
• An enhanced DBS check.

Additional Information

For further information about the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point‑by‑point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Contact Information

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Natasha Berthollier on 01753 690950 or email: [e-mail] who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026