Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£58,133 - £65,261 per annum including HCAS
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	London, W12 0AE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

The post holder will be required to support the delivery of care currently in the form of New Models of Care, enabling the service to meet the London Wide service specification standards for Prison Healthcare.

The post holder will support the therapies team to ensure they work to an agreed operational policy and offer integrated triage, assessment and intervention to individuals within our prison settings who are presenting with mental health problems in line with the New Models of Care.

To provide a qualified specialist psychology service to patients under the care of the Mental Health team and Therapies Service within the Prison. The role includes providing specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To provide supervision to unqualified psychology staff and to support senior staff to further develop the service. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

Provide specialist psychological assessments using psychometric tests, self-reports, observations, and interviews. Formulate evidence-based treatment plans for complex mental health and behavioural needs across care settings. Deliver individual, family, and group interventions, refining formulations using multiple models.

Provide expert guidance and consultation to multidisciplinary teams, contributing to shared psychological frameworks and service-wide understanding. Conduct risk assessments, manage risk, and advise other staff on risk factors. Act as care coordinator under CPA when required, leading planning and reviews.

Deliver clinical supervision to junior psychologists, trainees, and MDT staff. Provide consultation, training, and teaching across pre/post-qualification programs, internal teams, and external agencies. Receive regular supervision from a senior clinical psychologist while pursuing agreed specialist professional development.

Communicate assessment, formulation, and treatment details in a skilled, sensitive manner to clients, families, and multidisciplinary networks, actively monitoring care progress.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. 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

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.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attachment.

PERSON SPECIFICATION -GENERAL INFORMATION

Job Title: Clinical/Forensic/counselling Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Band: 7

Department: North London Forensic Service

A person specification should comprise of a list of attributes required of the role. Essential criteria are those without which, the post holder would be unable to adequately perform the job. Desirable criteria are those that may enable the candidate to perform better or require a shorter orientation period. You should not include any reference to numbers of years’ experience unless justified.

This advert closes on Thursday 24 Sep 2026

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