Consultant Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£85,641 to £97,746 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Dartford, DA2 7AF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Aug 2026
Closing date:	13 Sept 2026

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Summary

This role involves providing strategic, clinical and operational leadership for psychological therapies across inpatient and community forensic services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality assessments and interventions that address both mental health needs and risks to others. The postholder oversees a specialist community psychological therapies service for individuals with complex emotional and interpersonal difficulties associated with harmful behaviour, while maintaining their own clinical caseload. They are expected to be, or work towards becoming, an Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician under the Mental Health Act (2007). A key aspect of the role is fostering reflective practice and psychologically informed, compassionate teams through supervision, support and professional development of principal psychologists and other psychological therapies staff. The postholder promotes trauma-informed approaches across multidisciplinary services, maintains robust standards of clinical governance and quality improvement, contributes to directorate leadership, and leads service evaluation, outcome monitoring, research and service development activity to enhance the effectiveness and quality of care.

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