Senior Psychologist/Cognitive Behavioural Therapist- Here for Staff

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Ilford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in East London is seeking a Senior Psychologist to provide psychological support for staff following critical incidents. You will offer training and consultations to enhance staff wellbeing and deliver psychologically informed interventions. The role requires a strong background in crisis management and at least two years experience in psychological services. This position promotes a compassionate culture and offers opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• At least two years post-qualification experience in specialist psychological assessment.
• Experience delivering psychological interventions to diverse client groups.
• Experience in teaching, training, and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological support for staff after critical incidents.
• Deliver training and consultation to manage stress and mental health.
• Develop and maintain an effective psychological support service.

Skills

Communication skills

Crisis intervention

Consultation

Psychological assessment

Education

HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered

Additional specialist training in CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness

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25.08.2025

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09.10.2025

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Here for Staff (Staff Support) Service, that works across the Trust to offer support, consultation, guidance, and brief therapeutic interventions for staff and teams.

This wte post has been allocated to work specifically with staff in the Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate and will be based at Goodmayes Hospital, though other aspects of the post may require some travel. Support may be offered both face to face and virtually.

For more information, please contact both Dr Marc Kingsley on and Nadya Khokhar on

Main duties of the job

• Supporting managers to offer a consistent approach following a patient or staff safety incident.
• Providing support to staff following patient suicide, serious investigation process and legal proceedings
• Ensuring a consistent model of supportive/debrief sessions following patient and staff safety incidents.
• Offering parity of offer to all staff, including bank and agency workers
• Using suitable data to capture the experience of affected staff.
• Supporting the creation of an MDT workplace wellbeing expert reference group
• Ensuring there are suitable online support resources for staff and managers.

Working for our organisation

NELFT is an innovative and creative NHS Trust, committed to creating a Just and Compassionate culture for staff and patients alike. It recent increased investment in staff support is good evidence of this.

It is conveniently located between London and Essex, so is an easy commute for many people. whilst here you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and interests further and this is actively encouraged. you will receive good support and supervision and will be joining a family of psychological practitioners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a highly skilled psychological service for staff and teams referred to the Staff Support Service with three days for ARD involving: brief NICE endorsed individual and group psychological interventions and psychoeducation. There may be some need for individual work.
• To employ core professional skills in using outcome measures and risk assessments.
• To provide psychoeducation to staff groups for preventative measures (such as stress management, mindfulness techniques). These could include one off group sessions, or up to 8 designated sessions.
• To facilitate critical incident debriefing and support for individuals and teams.
• To work flexibly and independently, as an autonomous clinical practitioner, with the support of Staff Support service colleagues.
• To actively support reduced waiting times for staff and teams referred for support.
• To offer advice and consultation on staff psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• To expand the psychological component of Health and Wellbeing the Trust. This will include preventative work that addresses mental health and stress and promoting health and well-being training events.
• To work closely with managers and teams, and in this capacity to offer consultation, training and supervision to non-psychology staff when required.
• To work closely with other colleagues in in NELFT, to be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical skill, multidisciplinary engagement and flexibility.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research,
• To enhance the psychological profile of staff support by attending and contributing both to in-house meetings and external specialist interest groups.
• To deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological service to all groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability; to include staff users in the design and delivery of the service.

Person specification

Education

• HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered practitioner
• Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness

Interest

• Interest in working with staff teams post critical incident, and who are often highly stressed
• Interest in developing new skills and techniques that are shown to be effective in staff support

Experience

• At least two years post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS.
• At least two years post-qualification experience of delivering psychological interventions to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts, and presenting problems
• Experience of delivering group/psycho-education work

Teaching

• Experience of teaching, training, and / or supervision.
• Experience of supporting and supervising research projects, audit and service evaluation.

Skills

• Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, with staff and other professional colleagues post critical incident and high levels of stress.
• Skills in providing consultation to professional colleagues.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.