Senior Clinical Psychologist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Milton Keynes is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to provide a specialist psychological service to men on the Mental Health Day Unit. Responsibilities include conducting assessments and therapies and developing treatment plans. Candidates should be passionate about delivering patient-centered care. The application deadline is 20 Nov 2025.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive clinical psychology service to men on the Mental Health Day Unit.
• Conduct specialist psychological assessments and therapy.
• Develop individual psychological formulations and implement treatment plans.

Job description

Responsibilities

1. Provide a comprehensive, specialist clinical psychology service to those under the care of CNWL and specifically to men on the Mental Health Day Unit.
2. Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
3. Provide a key role in developing the Mental Health Day Unit and to provide clinical psychology to men on this unit.
4. Support the mental health team with complex cases and support the Mental Health & Psychology Lead in service improvement.
5. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
6. Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Health and Justice Directorate.
7. Provide clinical supervision to other members of the team when appropriate.

Additional Duties

1. Source and utilise appropriate evidence based psychologically informed assessment tools. Including self-rating, rating scales, structured and semi structured interviews and provide appropriate training on their use within the multidisciplinary team to ensure these are embedded as part of a holistic assessment of mental health within the team.
2. Provide specialist psychological assessments to men in the Prison and on the Mental Health Day Unit based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients’ care.
3. Develop individual psychological formulations and lead on team formulations. Develop and utilise a range of psychological interventions to support the team and prison in their understanding and management of the prisoners, especially within the CAU.
4. Formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s mental health and personality problems, taking into account an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, theoretical and therapeutic models and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
5. Contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of clinical and forensic psychology and related disciplines.
6. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
7. Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
8. Ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
9. Ensure that service users are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated / incorporated into continued service development and improvement.
10. Communicate with other counselling providers within the prison to ensure robust referral pathways and appropriate division of cases.

About Us

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

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.

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025.