Main area Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Grade 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time – 0.6 session per week (22.5 Hours/Week) Job ref 455-NLFT-0868
Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Ann’s Hospital Town Haringey Salary £63,665 – £70,887 Pro rata Inclu Outer London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 04/06/2026 23:59
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
Job overview
We welcome applications from experienced qualified staff and those seeking a Preceptorship role (starting at a Band 7, working toward the 8a post over an 18 month period).
Interviews for this role will be held on Monday 8th June 2026. The post holder will work as a senior member of the Haringey Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), part of North London Foundation Trust (NLFT). The CRHTT provides intensive, home‑based crisis assessment, treatment and support as an alternative to hospital admission, ensuring rapid and effective crisis responses for residents in Haringey.
In this role, the psychologist will contribute to the delivery, development and continuous improvement of the therapeutic offer within the crisis pathway. A core aspect of the post involves strengthening trauma‑informed practice, enhancing team culture, and supporting psychologically safe, consistent and effective responses to high‑pressure and emotionally complex clinical presentations. The post holder will work closely with clinicians to embed systematic, trauma‑informed models across the HTT and wider acute care system.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist trauma-informed psychological care
- Lead on psychological formulation and clinical input
- Support transitions and relational/systemic care
- Provide clinical leadership, training and supervision
- Collaborative and working jointly with MDT
- Contribute to Service Development and Governance
- Provide Post-incident and staff support
- Contribute to the recruitment, supervision and workforce development
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
- We Will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder ensures the systematic delivery of a high‑quality, trauma‑informed specialist psychology service within the acute care pathway. Their work includes psychological assessments, brief evidence‑based interventions, collaborative formulations, reflective practice, and consultation to the multidisciplinary team (MDT). The role also supports smooth transitions between crisis, inpatient, and community services, ensuring that the voices and relational needs of families and carers remain central.
Interviews for this role will be held on Monday 8th June 2026.
Person specification
Qualifications/Registrations
- Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with BPS
- Registered with HCPC as a psychologist
- Pre/Post qualification training in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Trained in other therapeutic modalities such as EMDR
Skills/Abilities
- Skill in use of complex psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
- Competency in neuropsychological assessment
- Skills in providing consultation
- Model-based formulation skills
- High level theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
Experience/Knowledge
- Experience within the NHS of full range care setting
- Experience of working with a variety of client groups, across the whole life-span
- Experience of working as a fully integrated MD team member
- Experience of risk management
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of conducting research and disseminating/implementing findings
- experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural context
- Experience of running a range of groups/workshops/courses for service users with psychosis and their carers
- Experience of supporting reflective practice and post incident support
- Experience and knowledge of the Trauma Informed Care framework in clinical settings
- Experience of working in Acute settings
Personal Qualities and Other requirements
- An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of those in the acute care pathway
- Ability to work independently and reliably
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries and maintain positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Contain and work with organisational stress and ‘hold’ the stress of others
- Personal experience of mental health
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Interest is service development
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we reserve the right to close any vacancies before the stated closing date. Therefore, please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
In line with NHS protocols, only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We regret that it is not possible to contact all applicants for every vacancy. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for the next stage.
You must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom or meet the criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship, and these will be considered alongside all other applications. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role meet the eligibility requirements under the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system to avoid disappointment. You can view this here
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and supportive workplace for all. We actively welcome applications from individuals who are under‑represented within our workforce and are dedicated to eliminating discrimination in all its forms.
As a Disability Confident (Two Ticks) employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role and are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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