Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist | West London NHS Trust

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Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit

0.6 WTE

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive psychological service, offering assessment, formulation and brief evidence‑based psychological interventions.
• Develop the multidisciplinary team’s psychological understanding through teaching, team formulation and consultation.
• Provide post‑incident support to ward teams to support staff wellbeing and psychological safety.
• Lead unit‑wide projects aimed at developing psychological skills in the acute mental health workforce and a trauma‑informed approach to care, including the implementation of RAID and the introduction of stabilisation skills training and supervision.
• Clinically supervise and line‑manage staff within the psychology team and/or MDT colleagues where appropriate.
• Be responsible for the clinical governance, quality and appropriateness of the work of the inpatient psychological therapies service.
• Opportunity for service development and research.

Qualifications

We welcome applications from experienced psychologists/psychotherapists with previous experience working in acute mental health services.

This advert closes on Saturday 30 May 2026.

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