Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBTp Therapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£58,133 - £65,261 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E9 6AT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	3 Jul 2026
Closing date:	2 Aug 2026

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Summary

East London Foundation Trust are pleased to offer the opportunity for a Psychologist or CBTp Therapist to join us in the City and Hackney Community Mental Health Service. This service, which is starting in September 2026, will offer a place-based service responsive to local population needs. This post holder will mainly work with people who have a diagnosis of psychosis /BPAD and/or are under care coordination due to the level of their current needs.

The post-holder will provide specialist evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for people with a range of complex mental health needs, predominantly with a diagnosis of psychosis or bipolar affective disorder. The psychology team offer individual, couple/family and group interventions, and we would welcome the post-holder to contribute to our group programme.

Indirect work is also a key part of the role, and the post holder will offer consultation, team formulation, supervision and teaching to the MDT as well as attending regular clinical meetings.

The post holder will be committed to supporting the work of the wider psychology service in seeking to provide a high quality, equitable, culturally competent and trauma-informed service.

• The systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical /counselling psychology /CBTp service to service users under the care of the City and Hackney Community mental Health Service.

• To bring a psychological perspective to the work of the Community Mental Health Service.

• Clinically supervise the work of assistant psychologists, graduate psychologists and, two years after qualifying, trainee psychologists.

• To promote and facilitate psychological capability within the Community Mental health Service e.g. via consultation, staff support and reflection and training.

• To support and lead when required, co-production and service-user involvement in psychology-related service development projects.

• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.

• Follow defined practices and procedures under the management and co-ordination of a senior psychologist.

• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.

• Participate in CPD and other developmental activities, keeping up to date with relevant psychological research and national guidance (DoH, NICE etc).

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Be responsible for providing a psychological perspective/ psychological expertise for service or team activities, including clinical care, team or service dynamics, systems, health promotion, team or service organisation, in a range of settings, e.g. CPA meetings, Community Mental Health Service clinical meetings, case discussions, team meetings.

• Provide specialist advice to, teach, train, supervise, support and consult to members of other staff groups on psychological theory and practice relevant to the Community Mental Health Service client group.

• To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required, including structured family therapy/family intervention following a theoretical model.

• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

• To liaise with referrers and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

Clinical

• Be responsible for choosing and providing appropriate specialist psychological assessments.

• Employ a broad theoretical knowledge base to analyse and interpret complex information in order to develop a specialist understanding and to design specialised programmes of care tailored to individual need.

• Be responsible for direct delivery of specialist psychological treatments.

• Use a broad theoretical knowledge base and specialist clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others (assistant psychologists, members of other staff groups and clinical / counselling psychologists where appropriate) via the development and delivery of teaching, training, supervision, support and consultation.

• Be responsible for providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to mental health issues, where there are often barriers to acceptance.

• Spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may be aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills and self care and special physical and/or mental needs.

• Communicate across language and cultural barriers.

• Be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating complex clinical information to a variety of recipients, e.g. service users, families and carers, other professionals, MAPPS and other formal panels and statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and/or electronically.

• Be responsible for proposing innovative responses to identified community needs and developing these in consultation with senior colleagues.

• Develop and deliver, jointly with more experienced clinical /counselling psychologists where necessary, teaching events for clinical/ counselling psychology training programmes.

Administration

• Record and report on personally-generated clinical and audit research/information.

• Enter clinical and audit/research information as required into local and Trust information systems.

• Record and report on personally generated clinical information.

• Prepare teaching materials and presentations to a professional level.

• Maintain and promulgate the highest standard of clinical record-keeping including electronic data-entry and recording, report-writing and be responsible for the exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, HCPC or BABCP and Trust policies and procedures.

Management

• Implement Trust and local policies.

• Organise own day to day activities, plan and prioritise own clinical workload.

• Identify and propose potential changes to work practices and procedures in own area of work.

Human Resources

Performance and Quality

• Maintain and update research, knowledge and skills.

• Develop and implement service related and/or academic research projects.

• Develop and implement clinical audit and survey projects.

• Organise and supervise research activity undertaken by assistant psychologists and others within the Community Mental Health Service.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of local resources and service/professional links, legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific service and mental health generally.

• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC or BABCP guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

• In common with all clinical / counselling psychologists/ CBTp therapists, receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines.

This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jul 2026

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