Clinical Psychologist / Forensic Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7/8a | Fixed term: 9 months (until April 2027) | Full time, 35.7 hours per week (Mon‑Fri 9am‑5pm)
Job Ref: 311‑F895‑26‑E | Site: Trust HQ, Town Ashton Under Lyne
Closing date: 16/07/2026 23:59 | Salary: pro‑rata, per annum (Band 8a/7)
We are seeking a Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic Psychologist to join our multidisciplinary Community Rehabilitation Team. The post will suit an enthusiastic psychologist with an interest in developing skills across a wide range of therapeutic approaches, risk assessments, formulation and consultation skills.
Main Duties of the Job
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation for service users with complex needs.
- Support and develop collaborative risk assessments.
- Deliver evidence‑based interventions tailored to individual recovery goals.
- Offer consultation and psychological input to the wider MDT, including nurses, occupational therapists, and support workers.
- Provide clinical supervision and support to assistant psychologists.
Qualifications
- Good honours degree in psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology or Forensic Psychology qualification.
- HCPC registered as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Further qualifications and/or training in a range of therapy models/interventions.
- Further training and/or qualifications in the delivery of clinical supervision.
Experience
- Experience of working in a community setting.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions (individual and group) within an NHS mental health environment.
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary services in mental health providing therapy to service users with high levels of complexity.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to other psychological therapists.
- Experience in teaching/training other qualified mental health staff or non‑psychology staff.
- Experience of providing line management to other psychological therapists.
- Experience of working in an inpatient setting (psychiatric rehabilitation / PICU / adult / secure services).
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies.
- Expertise in administration and interpretation of specialist psychological assessment tools.
- Knowledge of procedures that maintain and contribute to the improvement of psychological services.
- Knowledge of systems theory and organisational change.
Skills and Abilities
- Skills in models of service delivery and ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within multidisciplinary mental health community rehabilitation services.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment and intervention.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to hold the stress of others.
- Well‑developed communication skills, orally and in writing, to convey complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and professional colleagues.
- Ability to play an active role in service development via evaluation, audit and research.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non‑professional groups.
- Ability to prioritise work, manage waiting lists, meet deadlines and revise work plans accordingly.
- Desire to continue developing expertise in the service area.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support work/life balance.
- Access to continued professional development.
- Involvement in improvement and research activities.
- Health and wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.
Equality and Diversity
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We also encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
#J-18808-Ljbffr…