Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£51,657 - £58,785 per annum (Incl. Of HCAS)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Slough, SL2 5BX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	18 Sept 2026
Closing date:	18 Oct 2026

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist who would be interested in gaining additional invaluable skills and experience working in secondary care mental health services.  As the successful postholder, you will be working within the Community Mental Health Service in Slough in person, and wider Berkshire (online).  You will be offering your expertise to a wider multidisciplinary community mental health team. 

This exciting role offers an excellent opportunity for a career development, and we would welcome passionate and dynamic candidates, who are keen to work in a closely connected and supportive team, which prioritises relational practice and trauma-informed environment. In particular, we would be interested in psychologists who have an interest working with psychosis and/or trauma presentations.

You will work as a valued member of the Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies team within Slough Mental Health Service, as well as the trust Psychological Therapies wider team, and you will provide a specialist psychological service to users presenting with severe and complex mental health difficulties requiring multiple interventions, complex/intensive risk management plans and high levels of multiagency work.

You will be reliable and knowledgeable, and you will have great IT skills and be familiar with various systems and software packages.

You will need to be able to travel independently across Berkshire.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority

• Committed to providing good quality, safe services

• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance

• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

• Generous NHS pension scheme

• Excellent learning and career development opportunities

• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

• Free parking across Trust sites

The 3 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role: 

•   You will be registered as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and be eligible for Chartered Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)

• You will have experience of working in evidence-based ways with services users (and their carers/families) presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the range of settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems

• You will have the ability to complete clear and detailed psychological assessments and collaboratively derived formulations of a service user’s presentation

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Berkshire HealthcareNHS Foundation Trust.

This advert closes on Sunday 27 Sep 2026

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