Senior Clinical & Forensic & Counselling Psychologist

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

We are seeking two experienced and dynamic senior psychologists to join our large and thriving psychology department in the forensic service at ELFT. Both vacancies are in our medium secure service; one in our High Dependency Unit, and the other on an established treatment ward.

The successful candidates would join existing multidisciplinary teams to provide psychological care to service users to promote their recovery, reduce the risk of harm to others, and to support their progression and discharge back to the community. They would also act as line managers and supervisors to colleagues, contribute to service development, and be part of our large psychology department with access to good quality supervision and CPD opportunities. Our links with doctoral programmes also means there are opportunities to supervise trainee psychologists and contribute to taught content on clinical and forensic psychology doctoral programmes.

Based in the heart of East London, we provide services to a very diverse local population, and we are therefore particularly keen to hear from candidates who represent these communities that we serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to service users in the forensic directorate.
• To provide psychological consultation to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide senior psychological support and supervision to staff within the psychology department and to take an active role in service development.
• To be responsible for maintaining own professional development and for working within service guidelines, policies and procedures.

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.

Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

This advert closes on Friday 23 Jan 2026